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agent-focused solutions, investing in tools that enrich the employee experience. Noble GLMS helps companies add value to their training programs, making them more engaging to reduce onboarding time, increase compliance adherence, reduce costs and deploy new programs more quickly.”
TransUnion has announced it will continue to support Save the Children as its 2021 charity partner in the UK. Over the past year, TransUnion colleagues
have taken part in a range of activities to raise funds for the charity, which have helped make a real difference, for example delivering a day’s worth of food to 1,000 of the nation’s most needy children. Colleagues raised money with donations
for taking part in Christmas Jumper Day and donating in lieu of cards and celebrations during the festive season. In addition, as a sponsor of Premier League football club, Leeds United, TransUnion was able to support the charity’s Families Connect scheme by inviting children from Castleton Primary School of Armley in Leeds to its box for the team’s victory over Huddersfield Town last season. The children, aged from six to 11 years old, also received a behind- the-scenes tour of the Elland Road stadium. “We have developed a really strong
partnership with Save the Children, and are
Impact Specialist Finance, the specialist mortgage broker and distributor, has received a full bridging mortgage offer from United Trust Bank (UTB) within 24 hours of delivering a fully packaged application using the lenders new Fast- Track facility. The application for the £365,000
bridging loan was delivered electronically to UTB late on Sunday evening. The clients were subject to a last minute chain-break and their vendor was not prepared to wait for the chain to be closed again. The applicants were determined to complete their purchase whilst the rest of the chain was resolved and their property sold. Dale Jannels, Managing Director at Impact Specialist Finance, commented:
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“At a time when many chains are under intense pressure to complete, this new ‘fast track’ service could not be launched at a better time. Our bridging experience is really making the difference for our brokers by enabling them to find the right lender for their clients, like United Trust Bank in this instance.” Mike Walters, Sales Director – Property Intermediaries at United Trust Bank,
added: “Fast-Track is an exciting addition to our bridging service, designed to simplify and accelerate the bridging application process and enable brokers to write and complete more business. I am delighted that we have been able to use it to achieve a 24-hour application to offer deal for Impact which has enabled them to keep their customers’ house purchase plans alive. The team at Impact were fantastic as usual and presented a well packaged application.”
proud of what we have done despite the challenges that 2020 presented, but we know that there’s more that we can and must do to provide further support in the
Air Group has announced the appointment of Jon Tweed as its new group distribution director. He initially joined Air Group as a project consultant in
September 2020 to help develop its wider later life lending adviser offering and will now join the business in a full-time role. Reporting to CEO, Stuart Wilson, he will focus on forging
and renewing new and existing distribution relationships. He will continue his partnership with Air Group’s Head of Distribution, Ray McCarthy, and will be supported by an expanded telephone account management team to delivery on Air’s ambitious targets for this year and beyond. He has over 20 years of experience serving the later life market holding
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positions such as Sales Director at Hodge for Intermediaries and Head of Intermediary Sales at OneFamily. Air Group includes Air Mortgage Club – the distributor for equity release
and later life advisers; Air Sourcing – the free, one-stop platform for servicing clients’ entire later life requirements; Air Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers; and Air Rewards – the Group’s reward scheme for advisers.
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year ahead,” said Tammy Taylor-Stowe, chief human resources officer. “Their work plays a pivotal role in
enhancing the lives of those who need it most and I am delighted that we will be continuing our fundraising throughout 2021.”
Landbay, one of the UK’s leading buy-to- let lenders, has today enhanced its entire range reducing rates on all products. It has also launched a new range of remortgage- only products with free valuations and low- ered the rates on its 80% LTV mortgages so they now start at just 3.79%. Paul Brett, managing director of
intermediaries at Landbay, said, “Despite the stamp duty holiday deadline looming on the horizon, the start of the year has seen a tremendous demand for buy-to-let. Rents continue to rise and Rightmove reports that demand for rental property is up 20%. All of this means that buy-to-let remains a solid medium-term investment and many intermediaries will also be seeing an increase in demand from their landlord clients, particularly those with portfolios.”
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