Loans

Seconds “helping with growing debt concerns”

Clever Lending has reported a noticeable rise in broker enquiries on behalf of clients...

Major promotions at Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has made two internal promotions to its senior management team. Bradley Moore (pictured) is now managing...

SimplyBiz Mortgages adds Fluent to seconds panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has chosen Fluent for Advisers as part of its ancillary panel of...

New director for Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed Damian Cain to its board. It will have overall responsibility for broker...

Large demand for debt consolidation loans

More than 180,000 people across the UK could take out personal loans for debt...

Former igroup CEO sets up loan provider

Nava Finance Limited has secured authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enabling Nava to...

Connect for Intermediaries launches residential permissions

Connect for Intermediaries has expanded its mortgage network proposition to now include residential permissions. The...

Millennials more open to P2P than older generation

Millennials are four times more likely to have money invested in peer to peer...

Castle Trust relaunches mortgage offering

Castle Trust has relaunched its mortgage proposition, complete with a new website and telephone...

New specialist distributor panel for SimplyBiz Mortgages

After a tender process, SimplyBiz Mortgages (SBM) has unveiled its new specialist and complex lending...

FCA takes action against lender of last resort

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has taken its first criminal action against an individual...

Largemortgageloans.com increases Guernsey presence

Paul Welch, the founder of Largemortgageloans.com has moved back to Guernsey and increased lending options on the...

Demand for seconds likely to be greater than ever

There’s always a sense of anticipation at the start of any new year, especially...

Second charge lending rebounds

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed that second charge mortgage new business volumes...
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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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