Loans

Adverse borrowers upping their unsecured debt

A third of people with adverse credit say the level of their unsecured debt...

Interest rate uncertainty and cost of living crisis biggest broker concerns

New research from Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how mortgage brokers view the market...

Second charge tracker reflecting cost-of-living crisis

Evolution Money has revealed the latest results from its quarterly data tracker, which reviews...

Pepper appoints BDM for North of England & Scotland

Pepper Money has promoted Anthony Fisher from the role of regional broker account manager...

FCA wants improvements in credit information market

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposals to improve the credit information...

Selina Finance unveils new Homeowner and adverse products

Selina Finance has revised its product proposition, introducing its new Homeowner Loan and a...

Reshuffle following completion of The Loan Partnership acquisition

Following the announcement in May that Pivotal Growth had agreed to purchase The Loan...

West One unveils two-year fixed rate second charge products

West One Loans has reintroduced a range of priced two-year fixed rate products to...

Pepper Academy launches to provide second charge training

Pepper Money has launched an academy for brokers who want to work more effectively...

Central Trust and Mercantile Trust revise criteria

Central Trust and Mercantile Trust, the intermediary lending brands of the Norfolk Capital Group...

West One goes live on Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain

Mortgage Brain has revealed that West One has become the latest lender to go...

Norton Home Loans appoints roving underwriter

Norton Home Loans has recruited Mandy Westby to become a roving underwriter, working with...

Q&A: Chris Waind, business development manager, Central Trust

BestAdvice fires the questions at Chris Waind, Business Development Manager at Central Trust BestAdvice (BA): You...

Enra merges Vantage and Enterprise

Enra Specialist Finance has launched a new specialist finance broker, Aria Finance, by merging...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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