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The Loans Engine partners with LSL’s mortgage clubs

The Loans Engine has partnered with mortgage clubs TMA and Pink to provide secured...

Y3S adds remortgage comparison module to miLoan

Y3S's secured loan sourcing system miloanbroker.com is now offering an integrated module to instantly...

Citizens Advice urges payday loan complaints

Citizens Advice is launching a campaign urging payday loan customers who believe their lender...

Confusion over what peer-to-peer lending is

53% of consumers do not know what peer-to-peer lending is, identifying it as...

UKAR to sell unsecured loan portfolio

UK Asset Resolution Limited (UKAR), the holding company for the government owned businesses of...

Plymouth City Council bans payday loan ads

Plymouth City Council is the first local authority to ban payday loan websites from...

Record month for Freedom Finance

Freedom Finance has reported a record month in June. Last month saw over £10.7...

20th consecutive month of year-on-year monthly growth for seconds

The amount of secured loans lent in between April and June 2013 stands at...

Nationwide cuts loans to lowest ever rate

Nationwide Building Society has cut its personal loan rate for its main current account...

LendInvest completes first block trade of loans

New peer-to-peer mortgage trading platform, LendInvest, has reported the completion of its first 'block...

Smart Money completes BTL secured loan in 96 hours

Smart Money Loans has claimed a record breaking time for completing a £20,000 buy-to-let...

Strong growth for second charge lending

There was a 5% increase in new consumer finance in May 2013, according to...

Positive Lending increases commission

Positive Lending is offering introducers increased commission during July. The Bournemouth-based specialist distributor and packager...

New secured loan lender unveiled

A new secured loan lender, Clearly Loans, has launched today. It will offer loans...

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Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape that had shifted more than I expected. The private B2C surveying...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

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...

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Gen H named among UK’s fastest-growing tech firms in Deloitte Fast 50

Fintech mortgage lender Gen H has been recognised as one of the UK’s fastest-growing...

The Suffolk reduces fixed rates across expat and buy-to-let ranges

Suffolk Building Society has cut rates by up to 20 basis points across 10...

NatWest launches shared ownership mortgages to widen access to home ownership

NatWest has launched a new range of shared ownership mortgages, designed to make it...

YBS Commercial launches fast-track buy-to-let range

YBS Commercial Mortgages has launched a new “Fast Track” buy-to-let range, offering cheaper rates,...

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