Loans

Bumper month for secured loans

Secured lending figures in January increased by £6,500,000 (16%) on December 2013 and £14,600,000...

Nationwide extends personal loan offer

Nationwide Building Society is extending its reduced personal loan rate of 4.9% APR Representative...

Paragon Bank given go-ahead by regulator

Paragon Bank has been granted a banking licence by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). The...

Borro lends against Oscar statuette

Personal asset lender borro has revealed that it has recently taken possession of an...

Liberis sets up £1m funding for flooded businesses

Business cash advance provider Liberis has ringfenced £1m ‘immediate access’ funding for micro and...

Year-on-year rise in second charge repossessions

Second charge mortgage repossessions fell in the final quarter of 2013 by 29.7% to...

SML targets brokers in Northern Ireland

Smart Money Loans (SML), which already has offices in England and Scotland, has announced...

CBFL wants more transparency in STL market

Capital Bridging Finance Limited (CBFL) has introduced a video recording process for all its...

Promise Solutions expands panel

Firmus Secured Loans has become the latest lender to join Promise Solutions’ secured loan...

SMEs shun banks for payday lenders

An Amigo Loans survey has found that UK microbusinesses have little confidence in borrowing...

Masthaven unveils purchase buy-to-let deal

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has launched a new product aimed at helping customers gain...

Funding Circle to go on the road

Funding Circle, the online marketplace for business loans, has provided details of its first...

Masthaven Secured Loans enhances broker support

Masthaven Secured Loans has made further improvements to its broker support service. The upgrades have...

Central Trust expands UK product availability

Central Trust has move to is extend the reach of its products and services...
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COMMENT

Comment

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

News

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...
News

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...
News

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...
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Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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