Loans

Packager to hold south coast buy-to-let event

Complete FS has announced the first of a series of seminars designed to help...

Key risk hire for Different Money

Different Money has appointed Lee Gray as head of risk. The Cheshire-based lender styles itself as as...

Y3S completes its record sized secured loan

Y3S Loans has completed a £900,000 second charge loan in 13 days.  It was...

2016: Challenges, changes and opportunities for brokers

To quote a heavily used cliché from Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes,...

Regulator wants CCA stakeholder views

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a Call for Input on the review...

Freedom Finance offering three MCD broker options

Freedom Finance’s intermediary division has provided details its available options for intermediaries who will...

Sole-traders being alienated by banks

Over one million sole traders have been shunned by mainstream lenders, with nearly a third of...

V Loans adopts MCD changes

V Loans has decided to implement Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) changes ahead of the deadline. The second...

Clever Lending prioritising pipeline in run up to MCD

Master broker Clever Lending has implemented its new processes for Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD)...

Seven-year low for second charge repossessions

The number of second-charge mortgage repossessions totalled 228 in 2015, the lowest level for at...

Twenty7Tec systems now fully MCD compliant

Twenty7Tec Group has stated that it has completed the required developments to enable its...

FLA to help members dealing with vulnerable customers

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has started a programme of work to help its...

Nemo Personal Finance ends new lending

The Principality Building Society has decided to end new lending at Nemo Personal Finance. It will however...

TenetLime sees large interest in MCD events

TenetLime has revealed that its current schedule of Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) events in...

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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