Loans

Small rise in second charge new business value

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported growth of 7% in consumer finance...

Fall in second charge mortgage repossessions

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that the number of second-charge mortgage...

Brightstar moves into unsecured lending

Brightstar has partnered with DotBroker to provide its intermediaries with exclusive access to a...

Sharp rise in Equifinance’s lending volumes

Specialist second charge mortgage lender, Equifinance, has reported a 65% increase in lending volume...

Secured loan specialist to close

V Loans is withdrawing from the second charge and bridging markets. The second charge master broker said the...

Tenet unveils second charge direct panel

Tenet has launched a direct to lender second charge panel. The panel will initially comprise...

Increase in payday loan complaints

The Financial Ombudsman Service’s latest quarterly complaints data shows a rise in issues with...

ChaseBlue partners with Together

ChaseBlue Loans and Together have completed a £785,000 second charge buy-to-let mortgage in a...

Shawbrook originations up 23%

Shawbrook Group has issued its interim management statement for the nine months from 1 January 2016 to...

Second charge player moves into Scottish market

Second mortgage credit repair specialist Spring Finance has begun lending in Scotland. It will offer...

Record pipeline for OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank plc (OSB), has published a trading update for the period from 1...

Debt consolidation still main reason for loan

Debt consolidation remains the top reason that people apply for a loan, with 47%...

Fluent for Advisers appointed to Intrinsic panel

Second charge distributor Fluent for Advisers has joined Intrinsic’s specialist broker panel. For Intrinsic’s restricted advisers,...

TFC Homeloans reaches CaseBldr milestone

TFC Homeloans has passed the £1bn mark in enquiries submitted to its broker software...
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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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