Loans

Enra Group hires IT director

Enra Group, parent company of Enterprise Finance and West One Loans, has today announced...

New low loan rate from TSB

TSB has cut its personal loans rate for amounts between £20,000 and £25,000 to...

Optimum Credit makes sales hire

Optimum Credit has appointed Jon Callow to its sales team as a as business development manager...

Together bolsters intermediary business team

Specialist lender Together has made two further appointments to its business development team. Nadine Edwards...

Average lifetime of borrowing charted

MoneySuperMarket has calculated that the average British borrower will owe £309,000 over their lifetime, including...

Don’t take a knife to a gunfight

The secured loan sector has transformed itself and thanks to MCD can hold its...

Rise in consumer credit growth

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) latest high street banking data shows that consumer credit...

Over 50s: debt is part of modern life

More than half of people over 50 believe that debt is a part of...

Step One Finance cuts rates

Step One Finance has announced new rates for its product range as well as...

West One moves into second charge market

West One Loans is to offer a range of second charge mortgage lending products, as...

Borro: slow lending hitting SME investment

Borro has warned that the banking industry must improve speed of access to finance...

Sharp fall in BTL lending at Paragon

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy-to-let lending totalled £556.2 million for...

Know your APRCs from your ABCs

You taught your children their ABCs, but how much do you know about your...

Assetz Capital passes lending milestone

Peer-to-peer platform Assetz Capital has revealed that it has lent over a quarter of...

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...

Latest 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...

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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