Loans

Monthly increase in secured lending of 5%

February 2012, which was a post credit crunch record itself, saw £26,000,000 lent...

Positive Lending and UTB behind Silverstone F1 competition

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending and United Trust Bank are offering the...

Y3S helps Shawbrook complete largest loan

Shawbrook Bank has completed on a £330,000 secured loan, its largest to date. ...

OFT revokes payday lender’s licence

Online payday lender, MCO Capital has had its consumer credit licence revoked by the...

Promise offers unsecured loan facility

Promise Solutions has unveiled an online unsecured loan facility for its introducing brokers. Interest rates...

Brightstar holds second Masthaven lender day

Brightstar Financial is holding its second Lender Day in association with Masthaven Bridging and...

New products from Prestige Finance

Second charge lender Prestige Finance, acquired last year by OneSavings Bank plc, has launched...

Micro-businesses being shunned by traditional finance sources

Only 20% of micro-businesses were funded through a bank loan and one in six...

New product from Equifinance

Promise Solutions has exclusively launched Equifinance Plus, the latest lender to join the secured...

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services expands panel

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services (SBSLS) has added Shawbrook Bank (Shawbrook) to its...

Payday lenders risk losing licences after OFT crackdown

The Office of Fair Trading has given notice to 50 main payday lenders that...

Smart Money Loans unveils broker marketing package

Smart Money Loans has launched a package of marketing literature aimed at the broker...

Promise completes Nemo’s largest ever loan

Master broker Promise Solutions has completed a loan for £199,000 including fees, which represents...

HSBC sells secured loan portfolio

A portfolio of secured loans has been sold by HSBC-owned HFC Bank Limited and...
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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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News

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...
Appointments

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...
Technology

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...
ESG

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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