Loans

Profits up 27% at UTB

United Trust Bank (UTB) has reported a 27% increase in profits before tax to...

FCA provides update on public register consultation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will consult on proposals later this year in order...

New specialist lending panel for TMA

TMA Club has refreshed its panel of master brokers and specialist packagers, to provide...

Together named one of UK’s best 100 companies

Together has been named as one of the UK’s best 100 mid-size companies to...

Pinnington joins F4B senior management team

Finance 4 Business (F4B) has announced the promotion of Dave Pinnington to the senior...

Complete FS to maintain master broker fee

Complete FS has recommitted itself to its £199 master broker second charge fee, regardless of the...

Together reports 23.2% rise in originations

Together has announced its financial results to 31 December 2017, showing record lending volumes,...

Clever Lending aims to be at forefront of second charge market

Clever Lending has made changes to a variety of its business processes as part...

Positive Lending moves into unsecured business loans

Positive Lending has announced its launch into unsecured business loans with rates starting from...

Fluent Money supports Education for the Children

Fluent Money Group, the Bolton based second charge broker and distributor, has supported Education...

Softly softly approach to secured loans

2017 was a strong year for second charge loans and while we wait for...

Illegal money lender receives jail sentence

Dharam Prakash Gopee was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years imprisonment...

Illegal money lender to be sentenced today

Dharam Prakash Gopee has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of acting as...

Knowledge Bank offers second charge criteria search

Criteria search system Knowledge Bank has announced a partnership with Loans Warehouse. Master broker Loans Warehouse...

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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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...

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...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

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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