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Omni Capital expands into retail finance

CPC Group, the owners of leading bridging lender Omni Capital, has acquired Watford-based Logical...

Three-day turnaround for Dragonfly bridge

MCIFA has arranged a £1.7m bridging loan in three working days. The loan, provided by...

Hope Capital extends 1.5% proc fee offering for extra month

Hope Capital has reported its most successful month to date, completing its largest bridging...

Fincorp backs new bridging lender

Fincorp has agreed to provide funding to Martyn Smith’s new bridging lender Bath &...

Bespoke nature of bridging appealing to brokers

91% of bridging finance brokers believe that awareness of the versatility of bridging finance...

Important milestone for Enterprise Finance

Specialist loans distributor Enterprise Finance says it has arranged more than £100m of short-term...

Brightstar teams up with Precise

Brightstar Financial’s latest 'Lender Day' with Precise Mortgages resulted with nearly £5 million of...

Bridgebank Capital appoints marketing head

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Claire Pender as its new head of...

Hope Capital completes its largest bridging loan

Hope Capital has completed its largest bridging deal to date. Working closely with Chris Dailly...

Major investment for Bridgebank Capital

Bridgebank Capital has secured a substantial new line of funding of potentially up to...

United Trust Bank launches New York broker promotion

United Trust Bank welcomed over 90 brokers and other guests to a...

Alternative business finance outstripping mainstream commercial lending

Business loans by alternative lenders have significantly outpaced mainstream commercial finance over the past...

Dragonfly appoints BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance, has hired Justin Cooper as a business development manager (BDM). Cooper has...

Positive Lending and Precise offer valuation fee refund

Precise Mortgages has launched an exclusive product with Positive Lending offering a refund...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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