Specialist

Crystal’s completions up 153%

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

LendInvest to move into longer-term loans

LendInvest has secured a warehouse financing facility with Macquarie for an initial amount of...

Mint Bridging partners to create syndicated division

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

Key appointments to Together’s leadership team

Specialist lender Together has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. The group of...

Possible Brexit affecting broker positivity

The latest sentiment survey of ASTL members has found that just 38% of bridging...

Lorenzo Satchell rejoins Together

Specialist lender Together has appointed Lorenzo Satchell has its new commercial relationship manager for...

Clever Lending joins HLP panel 

Clever Lending has joined the HomeLoan Partnership (HLP) network as a provider of second...

Bridging brokers don’t back Brexit

57% of brokers surveyed by bridging lender MTF would like the UK to remain...

Masthaven secures banking licence

Masthaven Bank has been granted a retail banking licence by the Prudential Regulation Authority...

Engaged CRM completes Twenty7Tec sourcing integration

Engaged CRM, which provides CRM solutions to the finance, mortgage, secured loan and bridging intermediary...

Together celebrates best ever month for lending

Together has revealed that it completed £105 million new lending in March 2016, with...

UTB offers new residential improvement loans

United Trust Bank has introduced a new flexible 'Residential Property Improvement Loans' product, aimed...

Network extends arrangement with specialist distributor

The Right Mortgage network (TRM) has extended its panel partnership agreement with Crystal Specialist...

ASTL reveals new associate member

Shakespeare Martineau LLP has become the latest law firm to join the Association of...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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