Loans

The Derbyshire slashes personal loan rate

The Derbyshire Building Society has reduced its personal loan rate to 4.6% APR Representative. The...

Clearly Loans launches in N. Ireland

Clearly Loans has unveiled the first mainstream secured loan product in Northern Ireland since...

Wesleyan targets brokers for medical and legal loan distribution

Wesleyan Bank has launched a new service for finance brokers as it expands its...

‘Largest ever P2P loan’ funds Croydon regeneration project

LendInvest has claimed to have completed the world’s biggest peer-to-peer loan. The peer-to-peer mortgage...

Secured Loan Club established

A club focused on supporting brokers and networks in the sale of secured loans...

Masthaven Secured Loans cuts rates while loan sizes rise

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has revamped its core product range, with increased loan sizes...

26 consecutive monthly rises for secured loans volumes

Secured lending in December 2013 exceeded the total amount lent in the same month...

Masthaven Secured Loans rolling out webinar programme

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) is to use webinars to help brokers get a clear...

New office and faces for Omni Capital

Omni Capital is to relocate to new premises over the next week. The lender...

New short-term deal from Shawbrook

Shawbrook’s Commercial Mortgages division is entering the heavy refurbishment arena with the launch of...

New Expo for Scotland

Blimey! Loans has revealed that registration is now open for its Mortgage and Finance...

New BoS loan gives customers flexibility

Bank of Scotland has launched a new 'flexible loan'. Customers who take out the new...

Enterprise Finance hires CFO

Enterprise Finance has appointed Emily Gestetner as its chief financial officer. Gestetner has had...

Steady growth in consumer finance new business

Latest data from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show a 6% increase in...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...

Roma Finance supports £3.35m Colchester industrial scheme

Roma Finance has provided £3.35 million to fund phase one of a 23-unit industrial...

L&G strengthens lender relationships with new strategic appointment

Legal & General’s Mortgage Services business has appointed Vicky Windsor as strategic relationship manager...

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