Loans

FCA takes action against payday lender

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Andrew Barry Hart, the sole director, controller...

The Loan Partnership expands second charge lender panel

The Loan Partnership has been added to Precise Mortgages' second charge loans preferred master...

Target Group appoints CCO

Target Group has announced the appointment of Jeremy Edwards as its chief client officer...

Master brokers “should be fully CeMAP qualified”

Fluent for Advisers has argued that all master brokers and distributors providing second charge services to...

Castle Trust completes first Express Service loan

Castle Trust has completed the first loan under its new Express Service in two...

Tesco Bank lending up 11.6%

Tesco Bank has reported a pre-tax profit (before exceptional items) of £89m for the...

Promise reports “best ever month”

Promise Specialist Lending has revealed that its September second charge completions were up more than...

MBE London reveals seminar and panel debate details

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced details for the series of seminars and panel debates it...

MiFID II repercussions for financial advice?

LifeQuote has claimed that the recent announcement that MiFID will require all investment advice...

Vantage Finance hires sales director

Vantage Finance has appointed Jon Daniels as its sales director. He has over 19 years of...

LendInvest launches online investor campaign

Online mortgage lender LendInvest has unveiled its ‘Real Stories’ campaign, which highlights the different reasons people...

A fair second charge fee?

I gave a recent presentation at the FSE London event in Old Billingsgate and...

SimplyBiz Mortgages teams up with Twenty7Tec

SimplyBiz Mortgages has partnered with Twenty7Tec Group to offer its club members access to the Twenty7Tec...

Together features in Top Track 250

Together has been included in The Sunday Times/Grant Thornton Top Track 250 for 2016,...

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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