Loans

Birthday for P2P platform

Peer-to-peer alternative finance platform Assetz Capital is celebrating its fourth birthday.   In the past four...

Equifinance added to TFC panel

TFC Homeloans has added Equifinance to its second charge mortgage lender panel. The range of...

Distributor criticises ‘second charge negativity’

Fluent for Advisers believes there is a negative attitude in some quarters about the prospects for...

FCA publishes mission and business plan

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its Mission, which aims to give firms and...

Record month for Complete FS

Complete FS has reported that March was its best month for new business since 2008 with...

New second charge rates from Prestige

Prestige Finance has unveiled a new 90% LTV tier for its prime residential product...

Record loan amount for Borro

Borro has closed a £6,000,000 loan.  A small collection of blue chip post-war and contemporary...

TMA Mortgage Club partners with Twenty7Tec

TMA Mortgage Club is now offering its club members access to Twenty7Tec's systems. Twenty7Tec Group is...

Slow start to 2017 for seconds

Second charge mortgage new business fell 6% by value and 12% by volume during...

Not all master brokers are the same

Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decisions, regarding Bank Base Rate (BBR), have become somewhat predictable....

FSE Manchester registration opens

Front Events has opened registration for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester. The event will be...

FCA authorisation for unsecured lender

118 118 Money has received full authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  The lender, which launched in Cardiff...

Lenders must ensure people can afford to borrow

The Bank of England’s latest money and credit statistics show consumer borrowing increasing by...

Over-50s facing financial services age discrimination

Over 50s insurer SunLife People has found that people aged 50 and over are...
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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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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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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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