Press releases for September 2020
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01 October 2020
Dynamo for Intermediaries is working with Together to pilot a new buy-to-let product that launches today. The new semi-exclusive product, which features Together’s lowest ever buy-to-let rate, is onl...
01 October 2020
UK, October 01 2020: Mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain has launched a new lender service report which it has made available to all. It collates information from multiple lenders and provides a...
01 October 2020
Hope Capital has announced that Jemma Wood has been promoted to Head of Portfolio Management with effect from today (Thursday 1st October). Jemma joined Hope Capital last year as a Portfolio Case Man...
30 September 2020
81% of property and commercial finance brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent Broker Sentiment Survey believe they are prepared for a second wave of Covid-19. The survey, carried out a...
30 September 2020
We are unique as a financial services provider headquartered in Buckinghamshire and located exclusively in this county. Through our intermediary network, we write mortgages for borrowers spread all ov...
30 September 2020
Brilliant Solutions, the mortgage club and specialist mortgage packager, has achieved two consecutive months of record completion volumes. In a challenging environment for many, the distributor record...
30 September 2020
eKeeper has successfully integrated DocuSign’s eSignature functionality into its intermediary focused CRM, MortgageKeeper. The feature allows new and existing brokers to sign-up with DocuSign directly...
30 September 2020
- Mortgage completions have outperformed 2019 levels every month this year - Activity demonstrates resilience of the sector and HLP firms during the pandemic lockdown Mortgage and protection network...
29 September 2020
Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (29th September 2020) announced a range of price cuts across its standard and limited company ranges, as well as launching a new range of B...
29 September 2020
Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director, says “We are continuing to see that the housing market is, as the government hoped, benefitting from current incentives. There have also be...
29 September 2020
Commenting on the Bank of England Money and Credit figures, Jonathan Sealey CEO of specialist short term lender Hope Capital, said: “We’ve seen similar patterns across a range of economic data in rece...
28 September 2020
We are pleased to announce a new Buckinghamshire Building Society member-exclusive product range at 90% LTV. This supports those who have been a member of Buckinghamshire Building Society for 12 month...
28 September 2020
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today urged all its member firms to endorse a series of home buying and selling pledges for property stakeh...
28 September 2020
The Right Mortgage has announced today that, despite the many obstacles 2020 has shown so far, their network is still expanding which has resulted in a number of new hires, bolstering their support of...
28 September 2020
John Dobson, CEO at AML experts SmartSearch says: “The FCA is right when it says more needs to be done by the banks to combat money laundering and financial fraud. Although this has to go hand-in-hand...
28 September 2020
Dudley Building Society, the intermediary focused specialist lender, has announced the launch of a suite of self-build mortgage products to its broker introducers. Coming on the heels of its relaunch...
25 September 2020
Stonebridge, the mortgage and insurance network, has today (24th September 2020) launched newly-designed Performance Dashboards on its wholly-owned trading platform, Revolution, alongside the completi...
25 September 2020
Saffron for Intermediaries and MCI Mortgage Club are pleased to announce their new partnership, offering club members access to the society’s range of specialist mortgage products. The announcement c...
25 September 2020
Air Group, the collective of companies covering a range of retirement and later life services has today (25th September 2020) hired respected industry stalwart, Jon Tweed, as a consultant to develop i...
24 September 2020
One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has extended its support and development teams with two new additions. The appointment of A...
24 September 2020
Hope Capital has announced a further boost to its growing underwriting team with the promotion of Joanne McGillicuddy to Senior Underwriter, and the new appointment of Keiran Holmes as Underwriter. J...
23 September 2020
Leading UK anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has opened its first office in the USA just two months after starting operations across the Atlantic. Building on the success of the initial la...
23 September 2020
Dudley Building Society, the intermediary focussed specialist lender, has announced the relaunch of its Shared Ownership and Right to Buy (RTB) schemes, as it continues to accelerate its product devel...
23 September 2020
September 22, 2020 – London. As the FCA sends out its final letters to regulated firms requesting payment of their annual fees, Premium Credit continues to offer businesses a finance facility to sprea...
22 September 2020
Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director, says “The health of the housing market continued in August which, considering that the stamp duty holiday was only announced in July, is mo...
22 September 2020
Roma Finance is delighted to announce both the appointment of Emma Barker as Senior Underwriter and also the agreement of new funding for its buy-to-let proposition. Emma joins Roma Finance from Toge...
22 September 2020
Landbay, one of the UK’s leading specialist buy-to-let lenders, has today reduced the rate on its Special Edition two-year fixed rates for both 60% and 70% LTV by 14 and 10 basis points respectively. ...
22 September 2020
Commercial Officer to drive next phase of growth. Martin Schultheiss has joined Uinsure, the multi award winning InsurTech business, as Chief Commercial Officer. Martin was formerly Group Managing D...
21 September 2020
Responding to the FinCEN files revelations, John Dobson CEO at AML experts SmartSearch said: “This is nothing short of a betrayal for all those thousands of businesses doing their bit in the global fi...
21 September 2020
Market leading criteria search system Knowledge Bank is partnering with Precise Mortgages and Kent Reliance to launch a new, free monthly webinar. The sessions, called a Question of Knowledge, have be...
18 September 2020
Jessica Szczelkun, has just joined, O’Neill Patient Group (ONP) as its first sales director. Jessica joins from SortRefer where she was sales and relationship director for four years. ONP is one of t...
18 September 2020
Fiduciam, the institutionally funded short-term lender, has just completed a Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) loan for £840,000. The loan was to a children’s nursery in Leytonston...
18 September 2020
National residential surveying and valuations firm, SDL Surveying, has today (18th September 2020) announced it has reached a milestone having employed its 100th in-house surveyor, while at the start ...
17 September 2020
Bridging lender Hope Capital has enjoyed a bumper summer, with figures released by the firm today showing a surge in demand as the market emerges from lockdown. From June to August 2020, Hope Capital...
17 September 2020
Uinsure, the multi award winning InsurTech firm, unveils another key appointment to its management team with Lauren Bagley joining as Chief Marketing Officer. Lauren has extensive experience within m...
17 September 2020
Just Mortgages has just employed its first person in its new online territories. Spicerhaart and Just Mortgages are creating a number of territories across the UK and up to 235 estate agency branch p...
17 September 2020
First one shines a spotlight on semi-commercial properties. Following huge demand from brokers for their first six ‘Criteria Clinic’ sessions, Knowledge Bank has announced it is to start hosting the ...
17 September 2020
West One is making a series of further significant enhancements to its residential and buy-to-let second charge product ranges. This follows the expansion of their product range last month which saw t...
17 September 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that so far in 2020 no criminal prosecutions under the current anti-money laundering legislation have been made, despite its stated intention in 201...
17 September 2020
Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today (17th September 2020) announced a wide range of buy-to-let rate reductions across all product tiers and property types, with t...
16 September 2020
The North East’s largest building society has appointed Kate Rodi to its Executive Team as business change director. A strategic business leader, Kate has spent more than 15 years in senior level rol...
16 September 2020
UK, September 16, 2020: Brokers using Criteria Hub can now search across a host of new criteria on the market-leading criteria-based sourcing system from mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain. O...
16 September 2020
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics state that almost four million British people live abroad, with almost 800,000 in Europe alone. According to the latest data released for July by...
16 September 2020
The specialist lender progressed the case to offer in the height of lockdown. The case Shawbrook were approached by Broker Partner Go Finance, seeking a short-term finance solution for their clien...
16 September 2020
SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of dedicated BTL lender Zephyr Homeloans (Zephyr) to its panel, with immediate effect. Zephyr, which lends to both individuals and limited companies, no...
16 September 2020
Uinsure has saved its customers over £1.2 million in renewal premiums, an average annual saving of £50 per customer. In July 2020, Uinsure launched its new Rebroke at Renewal service that searches a...
16 September 2020
The borrower wished to move out of the retirement flat he had been living in for three years to move into a three bedroom house. In this case, a regulated bridging loan was the right option. Greenfie...
15 September 2020
New FinTech solution combines Nivo with Salesforce to create end to end digital application processing Fast growing mortgage brokers CLS Money have teamed up with FinTech specialists Nivo to provide ...
15 September 2020
Roma Finance, the customer centric specialist lender, has launched a brand new ground up development finance product as well as a commercial finance solution. The new development finance product offe...
15 September 2020
Hope Capital has today announced the appointment of Mike Watson as a Senior Underwriter. Mike joins Hope Capital from Together, where he was Senior Bridging Underwriter. He has also previously worked...
15 September 2020
The MCI Club’s latest analysis of mortgage activity over July and August has revealed that, despite Covid-19, the average mortgage value for purchases is up 12.4% compared to the same period in 2019. ...
15 September 2020
Second charge specialist lender, Equifinance, has announced its full return to the market, having withdrawn from the sector at the end of March. After a successful pilot scheme to test systems and bri...
14 September 2020
Given the growing concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent rise in cases, the organisers of the UK’s longest established and most well-respected event in the financial intermediary market ...
14 September 2020
One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has been adopted by The Loan Partnership as its primary tech provider. The integration will...
10 September 2020
The number of clients who are unaware that they have poor credit files is growing, according to broker forum Cherry. The research, which was carried out amongst forum users in association with Click2...
10 September 2020
Leading bridging lender Hope Capital has launched their Apprenticeship Scheme having taken on two new apprentices to help kick-start their careers in finance. The new recruits – Jade Thompson (23) an...
10 September 2020
Anti-money-laundering (AML) specialist SmartSearch has launched TripleCheck, a ground-breaking new digital Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML solution. TripleCheck combines three highly sophisticated v...
09 September 2020
Ben Smith at The Right Loan gave Andrew Franklin at Greenfield Mortgages a call with an urgent bridging case in March, just at the beginning of lockdown. The client planned to sell her current home a...
09 September 2020
Recently Greenfield Mortgages completed a regulated bridging loan working with Positive Lending. Nick Webb from Positive lending introduced a case to Alex Doveston, BDM at Greenfield Mortgages. The ca...
09 September 2020
Enterprise Finance has added Roma Finance, the specialist bridging, development and buy-to-let lender to its panel. Roma Finance has a mission to help customers create wealth for themselves and now E...
08 September 2020
United Trust Bank (UTB) has launched a range of ‘Interest Only’ residential mortgage products as the final part of its successful #BrokerSummerSupportPackage. Key features of UTB’s new Interest Only ...
08 September 2020
Paradigm has today (8th September 2020) launched a new annual testing function as part of its CPD Academy. The CPD Academy provides Paradigm members with a range of educational, CPD and training mate...
08 September 2020
Zephyr Homeloans is the latest lender to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association, which now represents 43 banks, building societies and specialist lenders. Zephyr Homeloans, part of Comput...
08 September 2020
Lenders continuing to tighten criteria is clearly still a significant issue for people with small deposits, as Knowledge Bank recorded that ‘Temporary Maximum LTV Restrictions’ topped broker searches ...
07 September 2020
- Second highest monthly volume of ESIS so far in 2020 - ESIS generated per working day above pre-Covid-19 levels - Products numbers stabilising at around 8,500 UK, September 07 2020: August saw the...
07 September 2020
The Moving Hub, the leading conveyancing platform and case management system, has claimed the title of Best Technology Based Conveyancing Firm – UK in the prestigious 2020 Global Business Awards organ...
07 September 2020
Mark Stokes, formerly Managing Director – Commercial Banking at Metro Bank, has joined United Trust Bank in the newly created role of Chief Commercial Officer. Mark has over 20 years’ experience at e...
07 September 2020
Pioneering anti-money-laundering firm SmartSearch has been named in the Sunday Times Sage ‘Tech Track 100’ for a second successive year. The list, published on Sunday, recognises Britain’s 100 private...
07 September 2020
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today issued its response to a draft industry Overarching Code of Practice for Residential Property Agents....
07 September 2020
Phoebus Software Limited (PSL), the market-leading lending and deposits servicing software specialist, has entered into an exclusive agreement with Yabber, the contact centre analytics experts. This w...
04 September 2020
Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today announced that its Director of Marketing, Jeff Knight, will be leaving the business this month. Jeff joined Foundation in Jan...
04 September 2020
Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director, says “Looking back we can now see the full impact that the lockdown had on the housing market. There are no real surprises; it hit our sect...
03 September 2020
Roma Finance has completed a record number of loans in August, with a 25% increase in volume and a double in value of completions compared with the same month last year. This follows a 100% increase i...
03 September 2020
Hope Capital has today launched the Seventies Collection which comprises two new bridging loan products. The two products, the HOPE 70 and the HOPE 75 are highly competitive bridging loan products, wi...
03 September 2020
Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today introduced enhancements across its residential product range, designed for intermediaries’ more extra-ordinary cases. The len...
01 September 2020
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01 September 2020
Following the Bank of England figures this morning, here’s a comment from Richard Pike at Phoebus Software. I hope you find it interesting for your reports today: Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales...
01 September 2020
UK, September 01, 2020: Virgin Money has become the latest lender to join Lendex, the new multi lender application and submission gateway from mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain. Lendex allows...
01 September 2020
The specialist lender has announced further developments to their product switch platform, MyShawbrook Portal. Shawbrook have revealed some new developments to their online product switch platform, M...
01 September 2020
Air Group, the collective of companies covering a range of retirement and later life services, has today (28th August 2020) announced the launch of its inaugural ‘Air Care Month’ during September, spo...
01 September 2020
Mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain has announced that Mark Lofthouse plans to retire in 2021 after 19 years as CEO. Since joining Mortgage Brain in 2002, when the company was a single niche pr...