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Masthaven Secured Loans opens its doors

Masthaven Secured Loans has begun its second charge lending push. Colonial Secured Loans completed Masthaven's...

Half a million pound fine for payday lender

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed a £544,505 financial penalty on the...

Fall in second charge repossessions

Repossessions made by second-charge mortgage providers were down by 37.21% in the second quarter...

Paragon acquires further RBS loans

The Paragon Group of Companies has acquired further unsecured consumer loans, through its Idem...

Access 4 Finance pleased with introducer interest

Access 4 Finance has revealed that since the launch of its new website and...

Seconds packager sees boosts from new clients and brokers

V Loans has reported a significant rise in enquiries from brokers who are looking...

New intermediary front-end from Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank says it has streamlined its secured lending process. The lender has launched a...

Money Puzzle opts for the Secured Loan Network

The Secured Loan Network has been chosen to provide its services to the introducers...

Blemain: BTL seconds up 40%

Blemain Finance has claimed that buy-to-let second charge lending has risen by 40% in...

12% rise in secured lending, says new survey

Secured loan lending rose to £150 million in the first six months of 2012,...

Think again about secured loans, brokers told

Brightstar Financial argues more intermediaries should reconsider secured loans as a viable capital raising...

Y3S introduces miLoan 3.0

Y3S has rolled out a new and updated version of miLoanbroker.com to mark the...

Scott Thorpe joins Access 4 Finance

Scott Thorpe has joined Access 4 Finance as a co-owner. Access 4 Finance is a...

FLA hunts for new comms head

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) is recruiting a new head of communications. Incumbent Russell...

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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