Loans

OSB posts Q1 trading update

OneSavings Bank plc has reported that net loans and advances grew by £460m during...

Secured lenders back Y3S’s golf day

Packager Y3S is holding its third annual Golf Day on Thursday 7 July at the Celtic Manor...

LGMC unveils second charge direct proposition

Legal & General Mortgage Club (LGMC) is launching a direct-to-lender proposition for second charge...

Trio of lenders integrate with APAC’s mortgage software

Precise Mortgages, Shawbrook Bank and Together have become the first three lenders to begin to...

Complete FS revises secured loan charges

Complete FS has unveiled a "low cost" second charge fee charging structure, offering a...

Affordability is the specialist lender’s ‘new best friend’

Equifinance believes affordability calculations can be of real benefit to specialist lenders when assessing...

FSE Manchester reveals seminar schedule

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has published details of its seminar programmes for the event...

Promise Solutions added to network panel

Promise Solutions has been accredited to the panel of network Personal Touch Financial Services...

Vantage Finance secures private equity investment

Vantage Finance has secured inward investment from Chiltern Capital. The private equity firm has taken a...

Precise unveils direct to broker seconds offering

Precise Mortgages will be launching a direct to broker second charge proposition on 5 May.  The direct submission...

Crystal’s completions up 153%

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on £401m worth of business from January to March,...

Simon Stern joins Equifinance as consultant

Equifinance has appointed Simon Stern as a strategic consultant to develop the company’s distribution,...

Mint Bridging partners to create syndicated division

Mint Bridging has entered into a joint venture with Mark Abrahams, a founder of...

Invoice fraud hitting financial services hard

New research from Tungsten Businesses has suggested that financial services firms are losing more than £165...
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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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