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100% deals offered

Promise Solutions has unveiled a loan which enables its introducers to arrange 100% borrowing...

Blemain Group secured significant funding

The Blemain Group has secured a £640 million three-year banking facility to help existing...

New proposition from Niche Financial Solutions

Niche Financial Solutions is running a prize draw to celebrate the launch of...

Business opportunities from seconds being shunned?

A well-known packager has claimed that brokers are missing a trick by not considering...

House purchase unsecured loan available from Norton

Norton Broker Services is now offering a new exclusive unsecured loan product that can...

Brightstar added to Masthaven’s seconds panel

Brightstar Financial has joined the panel of new secured loans lender Masthaven Secured Loans. The...

Paragon acquires MBNA portfolio

The Paragon Group of Companies has acquired a further portfolio of closed UK consumer...

Masthaven seconds now available through Promise

Promise Solutions has added Masthaven secured loans to its sourcing system. Brokers can now source...

Licence revoked of second charge/bridging lender

Reddy Corporation Ltd has had its credit licence revoked by the Office of Fair...

Billions of debt hidden from loved ones

£41 billion of debt is being hidden by people in relationships from their partners,...

Promise expands secured loan offering

Promise has added another secured loan product to its sourcing platform. The latest offering is...

Rise in secured loan lending

Secured loan lending in July broke the £30 million for the first time since...

miLoan passes eight figure milestone

Y3S’s secured and bridging loan sourcing system has achieved £10 million in loan completions...

Q2 sees 7% rise in consumer credit spending

Consumer credit borrowing from members of the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA)  increased by 7%...

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...

Latest news

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

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...

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