Loans

Payday lender to refund £1.7m in customer redress

CashEuroNet UK, trading as Quick Quid and Pounds to Pocket, has agreed with the...

Together makes capital appointment

Specialist lender Together has appointed a new divisional sales manager for London. Tanya Elmaz has...

V Loans expands lender panel

Secured loan broker V Loans has expanded its lender panel with the appointment of...

66% of young adults don’t know what APR means

There is a distinct lack of understanding about borrowing among young adults in the...

Skipton to hold MCD broker seminars

Skipton Intermediaries will be hosting a range of special breakfast seminars across the country...

Record results for Crystal

Crystal Specialist Finance has passed the total figure for issued terms in 2014, and...

Brightstar receives Investors in People bronze award

Brightstar has achieved an Investors in People bronze level accreditation following its first assessment.  Just...

Together helps experienced BTL investor

Together has supplied a £1.25 million funding facility to a buy-to-let investor let down by...

FCA to consult on payday loan comparison website standards

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its response to the Competition and Market...

Masthaven Secured Loans makes changes to range

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has revamped its range of secured loans, first charge residential...

Go Commercial Finance gets FCA permissions

Go Commercial Finance has been granted full consumer credit permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority...

Payday lender to refund over £15m to customers

Dollar Financial UK, which trades as The Money Shop, Payday UK, Payday Express and...

Brightstar receives FCA authorisation

Brightstar Financial has secured authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  It achieved authorisation in 12 weeks...

Vizolution unveils financial services document solution

Vizolution has launched vDoc, an omni-channel customer portal that allows customers to securely sign,...

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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FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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