Loans

N. Ireland second charge completed

Loans Warehouse has recently completed the first secured loan in Northern Ireland since the...

Brightstar partners with Positive Solutions

Positive Solutions has appointed Brightstar Financial as partner of choice for its IFA Partners. ...

Brits want tougher payday loan regulation

68% of the British population want stricter regulation on advertising of payday loans, according...

Brokers still missing out on alternative revenue streams

Y3S has expressed concern that many mortgage brokers are missing out on lucrative earning...

Promise to help with complex cases

Promise Solutions is to offer advice and packaging services for brokers with their more...

Brokers praise Promise Solutions’ Punjabi and Urdu service

Promise Solutions says it has been praised for its creation of a Punjabi and...

Pay-day loan advert banned

Pay-day loan provider WageDayAdvance Ltd has been told not to repeat its television advert. ...

V Loans offers referral service

V Loans is offering a reward scheme to introducers who recommend other intermediaries to...

Promise for extra commission on large secured loans

Promise Solutions says it is paying introducers an extra £300 on larger loan referrals...

Gradual improvement in consumer credit markets: FLA

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) says figures for the first quarter of the...

Ocean Finance joins Prospector loans panel

Finance broker Ocean Finance is offering secured loans to intermediary clients through TrigoldCrystal’s Prospector...

Borro sees large leap in property related loan apps

Borro has reported a 661% rise in property related loan applications from customers over...

V Loans looking to help ‘mortgage prisoners’

Specialist distributor V Loans has claimed mortgage brokers and other professional advisers are using...

Equifinance access to be increased

Promise Solutions is enlarging its panel with access to Equifinance. Following the launch of...
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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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Regulation

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...
First-time buyers

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...
Buy-to-let

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...
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...

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