There was yet another blow for the already hard pressed secured loan industry with the news announced in the last few days that Link Loans was ceasing trading. This was due to their inability to obtain any further funding.
Only days prior to this, the secured loans industry in general felt that Link Loans was bound to be in a precarious situation as their parent company Link Lending had gone into administation due to the refusal of the Bank to continue funding them.
How Link Loans expected their funding to continue is a mystery, as they were a part of Link Lending, and when Link Lending, which arranged bridging loans, fell it was to be expected that Link Loans was almost certain to follow suite.
Link Loans were not all that long established and they worked through the intermediary market in a different way from other competing secured loan lenders.
When a secured loan broker receives a request from a client to arrange a secured loan for them, the secured loan broker, through his knowledge of the secured loan lenders criteria, knows exactly which secured loan lender fits his clients needs and circumstances.Therefore before even placing the secured loan application with the most suitable lender he knows that the application will reach fruition providing all the facts supplied by the customer are accurate.
Link Loans worked in a different way from other secured loan lenders although like the rest of the lenders they did give the secured loan broker underwriting guidelines to follow.
With Link Loans this was not the case. A secured loan broker had to first of all do a credit check, and also had to approach the land registry to do a land search of the customer's property. This then had to be faxed or emailed to Link Loans who then had to approach their funders to seek approval for the secured loan.
When Link Loans heard back from their funders, the secured loan broker was told if their application for a secured loan was acceptable or not.
Other secured loan lenders did not appear to need the authority of the bank granting them the funding. - 29904
Only days prior to this, the secured loans industry in general felt that Link Loans was bound to be in a precarious situation as their parent company Link Lending had gone into administation due to the refusal of the Bank to continue funding them.
How Link Loans expected their funding to continue is a mystery, as they were a part of Link Lending, and when Link Lending, which arranged bridging loans, fell it was to be expected that Link Loans was almost certain to follow suite.
Link Loans were not all that long established and they worked through the intermediary market in a different way from other competing secured loan lenders.
When a secured loan broker receives a request from a client to arrange a secured loan for them, the secured loan broker, through his knowledge of the secured loan lenders criteria, knows exactly which secured loan lender fits his clients needs and circumstances.Therefore before even placing the secured loan application with the most suitable lender he knows that the application will reach fruition providing all the facts supplied by the customer are accurate.
Link Loans worked in a different way from other secured loan lenders although like the rest of the lenders they did give the secured loan broker underwriting guidelines to follow.
With Link Loans this was not the case. A secured loan broker had to first of all do a credit check, and also had to approach the land registry to do a land search of the customer's property. This then had to be faxed or emailed to Link Loans who then had to approach their funders to seek approval for the secured loan.
When Link Loans heard back from their funders, the secured loan broker was told if their application for a secured loan was acceptable or not.
Other secured loan lenders did not appear to need the authority of the bank granting them the funding. - 29904
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