Loans

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...

British Grand Prix tickets up for grabs

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending is offering the chance to win one...

Large rise in introduced business for borro

Borro has revealed that it now has over 2,000 intermediaries signed up to its...

Colonial behind largest Shawbrook secured loan

Colonial Secured Loans has reported that it has just completed Shawbrook’s largest ever secured...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

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...

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