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FOS to speak at ASTL meeting

Peter Bristow, outreach manager from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), is to speak at...

Fincorp boosts broker sales team

Fincorp has hired Gary Playle as business development manager. His appointment comes as the bridging...

Time the bridging industry “grew up”

Bridging lender Fincorp has questioned claims that gross lending in the short-term mortgage market...

Tenet Group to distribute Metro Bank mortages

Metro Bank is partnering with Tenet Group, allowing Metro Bank mortgages to be available...

Ex-Tuita new business head joins Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has appointed Andy Jacovou as new business consultant. He will be working for...

Brokers unhappy with solicitors’ response times

Consistency of acceptance criteria and better legal response times are the main findings of...

miLoan registers 5,000 brokers

Y3S has reported a landmark in the history of its sourcing system miloanbroker.com following...

Significant rise in bridging lending

For the quarter which ended 31 December 2012, the ASTL has reported a 23%...

Bridgebank Capital bolsters underwriting department

Bridgebank Capital has made a new senior appointment in its Underwriting department. Stephen Rowland...

Bridgebank appoints company accountant

Bridgebank Capital has appointed Lesley Gibbons in a new senior management role of company...

Niche FS completes million-pound Dragonfly bridge in 72 hours

Niche Financial Solutions has completed a £1 million bridging loan through Dragonfly in less...

Valuation issues trouble bridging brokers

43% of brokers surveyed by United Trust Bank’s said that the most common reason...

Dragonfly Property Finance passes lending milestone

Dragonfly Property Finance has reported that it passed £500 million of lending since launch,...

Shawbrook Bank launches its lowest ever bridging rates

Shawbrook Bank has made a number of product changes to its short term loan...

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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