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Prestige Finance improves pricing and products

Prestige Finance has announced interest rate reductions on its standard plans and reduced rates...

Major milestone reached by borro

Borro has revealed it has reached £50 million in funded loans to individuals and...

Promise expands secured panel

TFS Secured Loans has been added to the panel of master broker Promise...

Competition Commission to investigate payday lending sector

The Office of Fair Trading will today refer the payday loan industry to the...

Blemain makes key changes following broker feedback

Blemain Finance has made changes across a range of its products to lower costs...

Payday lender rapped for text messages

First Financial (UK) Ltd, trading as FirstPayDayLoanUk, has had three 'issues' upheld against it...

Omni Capital offers three-year term loan facility

Omni Capital has launched a three-year term product aimed at domestic and "globally-mobile" high...

OFT suspends a credit licence for the first time

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today suspended, with immediate effect, the consumer...

Pendulum has swung in favour of secured loans, claims distributor

Secured loans are more likely to be agreed than remortgages according to secured loans...

19th consecutive month of year-on-year growth for seconds

Loans Warehouse's lastest secured loans index has revealed that secured lending last month was...

Minority stake taken in Enterprise Finance

Enterprise Finance has announced a significant minority stake investment by David Campbell, who joins...

Montello heads unveil peer-to-peer loan platform

Christian Faes and Ian Thomas, two of the principals from Montello Capital Partners, have...

Smart Money Loans on the hunt for staff in the south

Smart Money Loans (SML) is looking to recruit experienced relationship management and development managers...

SBSLS adds Nemo Personal Finance to secured panel

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services (SBSLS) has announced the addition of secured loan lender...

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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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FCA chief calls for bold reform to build ‘mortgage market of the future’

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out a sweeping vision for a more accessible...

FCS Compliance to host customer due diligence webinar for property professionals

FCS Compliance has announced the latest in its series of free educational webinars for...

BFS backs recruitment firm acquisition with £6.75m funding package

Independent SME funder Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £6.75 million invoice discounting...

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...

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