Loans

Together announces new £375m bond

Specialist lender Together has closed a £375m bond issuance, which will increase its funding capacity. The new...

Citizens Advice sounds warning over guarantor loans

An increasing number of people are struggling with debts for guarantor loans and rent to...

Promise integrates technology with Shawbrook

Promise Specialist Lending has completed XML integration with Shawbrook. This represents its seventh second charge...

Equiniti provides Axcess Financial Europe with Core Pancredit

Equiniti has entered into an agreement to provide its Core Pancredit technology to Axcess...

Payday lender in £34m customer redress action

Payday firm CFO Lending is to provide over £34 million of redress to more...

No longer why but when and how

Working with intermediaries on behalf of the UK’s largest second charge distributor over the...

10% growth in seconds market predicted

Brokers expect the value of the second charge loans market to increase by 10%...

TFC offers free legals through new members club

TFC Homeloans is offering brokers up to £1m in free legals for remortgage clients...

Record results for Together

Together has posted record pre-tax profits £90.3m for the year ending 30 June 2016, an...

Brits expect tightening of credit post-Brexit vote

The cost of living is the biggest worry for UK consumers (60%) following the...

Seconds completions double at Positive Lending

Positive Lending has more than doubled its second charge mortgage completions since the launch...

TFC appoints head of marketing

TFC Homeloans has recruited Charlotte Rutter as head of marketing. Rutter (pictured) will manage all marketing...

Seconds market boosting home improvements

Home improvements were behind around one in three second charge loans taken out in the...

PPI claims ad deemed misleading

PPI claims firm www.thefairtradepractice.co.uk has had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority...

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...

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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