Loans

Enra Group makes senior appointments

West One Loans and its parent, Enra Group, have made a number of strategic...

1st Stop Group passes £200m milestone

Specialist consumer lender 1st Stop Group has passed £200 million of outstanding loans. The business is a...

Clever Lending unveils new broker portal

Clever Lending has launched a new online portal to improve the way brokers manage...

Profits up at Paragon Banking Group

Paragon Banking Group plc has posted a year-on-year increase in profits of 8.7% to...

Technology can help advance the second charge sector

A personal belief is that a second charge loan is and probably always will...

Together reports “solid performance” for last quarter

Together has reported that profit before tax for the first quarter of 2019 was...

Promise upgrades its second charge sourcing platform

Promise Specialist Lending is claiming to offer the best combination of speed, accuracy and...

UTB appointed to Connect for Intermediaries’ panel

United Trust Bank (UTB) products are now available to Connect for Intermediaries brokers, providing...

Brightstar launches Mental Health Awareness Week activities

Brightstar Financial is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week with a range of activities that...

31% rise in second charge volumes

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reputed that second charge mortgage volumes increased...

Selina Finance joins FIBA lender panel

Commercial finance trade body FIBA has announced the appointment of specialist lender Selina Finance...

Clever Lending boosts field-based team

Clever Lending has appointed two additional field-based sales managers. Stacey Woods and Tanya Legge have...

Home improvement borrowing highest in the South East

Lending data from Shawbrook’s Personal Loans division has indicated that demand for home improvement...

Shawbrook restructures property division following Eastgate’s arrival

John Eastgate has joined Shawbrook Bank as managing director of its newly created property...
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COMMENT

networks

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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Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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