Any Type of Loan, the guarantor loan specialist based in Cheshire, has announced plans to add secured loans to their existing product suite.
The addition of this new product means that they now offer consumers a range of unsecured and secured loan products and plans are in place to offer bridging finance within the next 3 [...]

We are receiving reports that the British Loan Brokers Association (BLBA) is due to re-launch after rumours surfaced that the Association of Finance Brokers (AFB) may be looking to merge with the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI).
The BLBA aborted their launch back in June 2010 due to what they described as “unforseen circumstances” but rumours [...]

News reaches us that Terry Pritchard, MD of equity release provider Charterhouse Retirement Solutions, is one of the people behind the takeover of Portsmouth Football Club. Pritchard is a hugely popular figure in the world of specialist lending and prior to his involvement with Charterhouse, he was a director of specialist mortgage lender Edeus and [...]

IVA advice specialist, ivahelp.net has announced plans to launch their specialist debt management and IVA product into the intermediary sector.
The decision to widen their distribution base was taken after seeing the success of their consumer facing websites in the first part of 2010 and this success has led to the formation of a new broker [...]

The Lead Generation Association (LGA) was formed in June 2010 to promote professional standards in the lead generation industry and encourage best practice amongst its members.
Membership of LGA is reliant upon lead generation firms being able to demonstrate that they comply with the standards set out in the LGA Code of Conduct. This code will [...]

Livingston-based hospital software firm, Craneware, yesterday hailed a “record sales year”, with the total value of its contracts expected to hit $54 million (£35m).
Its main product allows hospitals to track patients and make sure they are billed for the correct amount. The increase in sales is down to the high demand in [...]

IVA debt companies are for the most part, simply lead generators for genuine Insolvency Practitioners.
This is because IVAs or Individual Voluntary Arrangements to give them their full title, can be quite lucrative for the company providing this service, hence the increase in the number of firms offering debt management, insolvency and [...]

Upmarket travel site, emiratesdubaihotels.net has secured a £500k injection from Guernsey based boutique equity firm, JC Hennon.
JC Hennon will take a 29.9% stake in the company however the business will still be run on a day to day basis by the current management team led by Katrina Langford. emiratesdubaihotels.net say that there will be no [...]

The European debt crisis is unveiling similar signs of the subprime mortgage meltdown in the United States on 2007, with pressure and disruption in the financial system becoming more prominent as the problem gets worst by the day, according to a review by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
The BIS review [...]

Brooklands pensions has made public their concerns over ceratin QROPS providers.
QROPS are relatively new and relatively complicated; this has allowed product providers and salesmen to deliberately obscure the true facts or just to give false information because they don’t understand their product.
This article covers the frequently told lies, and uncovers the truth.
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cashpension.net have launched their pension loans service for UK pension holders and expats. apensionloan.com spokesman said: “Our pension loans are quite flexible and allow borrowers to take between 10% and 50% of the value of their pension fund in cash. The beauty about this scheme is that depending on certain restrictions you will not have [...]

Any Type of Loan, the Guarantor Loans provider has launched a new intermediary proposition that will compliment their existing consumer facing operation.
Guarantor loans allow people with a less than perfect credit history to obtain finance as long as they have a suitable guarantor who will endorse or “vouch” for their application and Any Type of [...]

TFS Loans, the unsecured lender based in Southend on Sea have announced that they are reducing the interest rates on a number of their loan products (for new applicants) with immediate effect.

There are definite shoots of growth in the secured loans sector with a number of new entrants looking to enter the market.

The Government confirm that they are extending the scheme by 6 months.

Callcredit, the Skipton credit checking subsidiary, has sold the business.