Loans

P2P platform joins UK Finance

ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance,...

Fluent Money Group continues recruitment drive

Second charge mortgage broker Fluent Money Group, which recently acquired specialist distributor Brytannic Extra...

Phoebus Software appoints CTO

Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL) has appointed Neil Dyke as its new chief technical officer...

Creditor Toolkit hailed as ‘breakthrough’

Computershare has backed the launch of the Money Advice Service’s (MAS’s) new Creditor Toolkit. MAS...

Sense Network adopts Mortgage Brain software

Sense Network has become the latest firm to select Mortgage Brain as its preferred...

Assetz Capital hires regional relationship director for Scotland

Assetz Capital has announced the appointment of Ian Craig as a regional relationship director...

Debt consolidation hotspot in borrowing revealed

53% of all loan requests in the Lytham St Annes postal area are aimed...

Optimum Credit securitisation ‘significant for seconds’

Fluent Money has hailed Optimum Credit's recent securitisation as demonstrating the "growing importance and status" of...

Second charge new business up by a quarter

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed its members' new business figures for the second...

Equiniti acquires loan management tech firm

Equiniti Group has announced the acquisition of the Nostrum Group. Nostrum is a provider of...

PRA reviewing consumer credit lending following growing concerns

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has undertaken a review of consumer credit lending, examining...

FCA consults over consumer credit staff incentives

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published proposals on how consumer credit firms...

Second charge provider in £256m securitisation

Optimum Credit has raised £256m via a securitisation transaction which it hopes will further...

New P2P investment options from Kuflink

Peer-to-peer platform Kuflink, sister business to bridging lender Kuflink Bridging, has announced the launch of two...

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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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...

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...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

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

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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