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Borro sees rise in supercars being used as loan security

Supercars are being used as collateral for loans, according to borro, the personal asset...

Smart Money Loans sees near doubling of loan sizes in Scotland

Smart Money Loans (SML) has reported a sharp increase in the average value of...

Michelle Blair joins the Loans Engine

The Loans Engine has appointed Michelle Blair as a business development manager. Blair has...

Strong April for secured lending

Secured loan lending in April was up 15.21% on the previous month, according to...

AFB elects representative to AMI board

The Association of Finance Brokers, the trade body for second mortgage professionals, will...

Smart Money Loans improves Rewards Scheme

Smart Money Loans (SML) has relaunched its Smart Rewards Scheme, in a move which...

Strong growth for Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank has posted an underlying second year profit of £2.6m. The lender has...

Kerry Katona loan ad banned

A TV ad for payday loans featuring Kerry Katona has been banned by the...

Payday lenders “not standing by their word”

Payday lenders are failing to carry out checks to make sure borrowers can afford...

Many more women than men applying for credit

72% of females, compared to just 28% of men, have applied for credit in...

Brightstar Financial pilots Prestige large loan

Brightstar Financial's secured loans division has become the first of Prestige Finance’s key distribution...

Masthaven Secured Loans improves proposition

Masthaven Secured Loans had made a number of changes to its product range. Rates have...

Y3S completes Shawbrook’s first buy-to-let secured loan

Y3S has completed the first buy-to-let secured loan for Shawbrook, just 18 days after...

SBSLS becomes Shawbrook preferred partner

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services (SBSLS) is now a preferred partner of Shawbrook...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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