Loans

Paradigm appoints preferred specialist lending partner

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added master broker, The Loan Partnership, to its panel as a...

Recruitment drive for Smart Money

Smart Money is seeking to recruit a number of advisers and case managers for...

LandlordInvest.com makes loan book public

Peer-to-peer lending platform LandlordInvest.com has published its loan book to mark its first anniversary. The loan...

Personal Touch adds two lenders to seconds panel

Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank have become the latest lenders to be appointed to...

Clever Lending adopts seconds sourcing platform

Clever Lending has joined IRESS’ XPLAN Mortgage sourcing platform, allowing brokers to compare second charges...

CSC Loans launches second charge mortgage guide

Second charge mortgage master broker CSC Loans is publishing a guide to second charge...

West One added to Smart Money panel

Finance broker Smart Money has added West One Loans to its second charge lending...

Paragon’s lending up 29%

Paragon Banking Group has reported underlying profits of £145 million for the year ended...

Ensure you broaden your revenue base

There’s a huge amount of excitement in the broker community at present — and...

Together sees 65% rise in originations

Specialist lender Together has reported average monthly loan originations of £125.4m for the third...

Seven consecutive months of growth for seconds market

The latest Second Charge Report from Enterprise Finance has revealed that the second charge market is...

Smart Money grows Scottish operations

Smart Money has moved its Glasgow operations to larger premises, reflecting its increased levels of...

Fluent for Advisers grows external sales team

Fluent for Advisers has appointed David Paton as business development manager (BDM). He will work...

Second charge market marginally down

The second charge mortgage market was down 2% in September. New business totalled £77m in...
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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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Technology

Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...
News

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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