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TMA Club partners with Together

TMA Club has added specialist lender, Together, to its lender panel. TMA members now...

BFS to maintain personal approach despite growth plans

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has revealed details of its growth and expansion plans, while...

New member for the ASTL

Whitehall Capital has become the latest lender to join the Association of Short Term...

MFS hires new BDM

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Ewan Duncan as its new business development manager...

Shawbrook provides £11.5m permitted development bridge

Shawbrook’s commercial mortgages team has delivered a 24-month long permitted development bridging loan within...

Signature appoints relationship manager for London and the South

Signature Private Finance has announced the appointment of relationship manager, Andy Neocleous. Neocleous (pictured) will...

Sonia Shortland becomes Apex Bridging MD

Sonia Shortland has been promoted to the position of managing director of midlands based...

Record quarter reported by ASTL members

The Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL) has reported that bridging loan books increased to...

MFS completes £17.6m bridging loan

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed its largest bridging deal to date, totalling £17.64m. The loan...

ASTL to hold anti money laundering workshop

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) is hosting an anti money laundering (AML)...

Impact Specialist Finance joins TMA packager panel

Impact Specialist Finance has been added to TMA’s approved packager panel. TMA members can now...

Jim Nash joins Tuscan Capital

Tuscan Capital has appointed Jim Nash as its new national sales manager. Nash (pictured) joins...

Hope Capital to offer bridging loans for adverse clients

Hope Capital is to lend to borrowers who have had bankruptcies, IVAs or who...

Roger Bootle to keynote ASTL conference

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed that the keynote speaker for...

COMMENT

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

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Click2Check adds ID verification to adviser compliance platform

Click2Check has added an identity verification service to its digital compliance platform, aimed at...

Atom points to growing near-prime hurdle for first-time buyers

First-time buyers with thin credit files or minor historic credit issues are becoming a...

Landlords move to regain possession before Renters’ Rights Act changes

Landlords stepped up possession activity in March as the 1 May implementation of the...

The Marsden appoints chief customer officer

Marsden Building Society has appointed Julia Brook as chief customer officer. Brook (pictured) will be...

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