Tagged: assetz capital

December 16, 2022 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital will exit its retail business and emerge as a lending platform completely funded by institutional money, according to an update posted on the company’s website. For observers of the peer-to-peer lending industry, the decision should come as no surprise. Assetz Capital has been… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over the last year, the team at Assetz Capital have finally seen “substantial rises” in bank interest rates after well over ten years of them “languishing at near zero levels.” Assetz Capital noted in a blog post that this has led to the Access Accounts… Read More

August 31, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, the billion pound+ business lender – funding 1 in 12 new homes by SME House Builders, has raised 119% (£297,697) of its £250,003 target from 240 investor via Seedrs with 21 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign (at the time of writing)…. Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital is pleased to enter a partnership with LexisNexis Risk Solutions in order to adopt the LexisNexis® RiskNarrativeTM platform across its business. The platform uses automation, AI and machine learning to offer an enhanced, configurable and accessible financial crime lifecycle management service. This should… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tony Kear from UK’s Assetz Capital notes that he joined in November 2020 and was “just getting his feet under the desk when COVID hit.” Tony Kear shares that he started his Corporate Banking career in 1990 based in NatWest Bridgend with “an emphasis on… Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 3:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Assetz Capital plans to lend £1 billion to homebuilders in 2022 before ramping it up 50 per cent in 2023 to £1.5 billion, the company said this week. The announcement was made by parent company Assetz. The move is designed to stimulate demand amongst SME… Read More

December 15, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a peer-to-peer lending platform for secured loans, says it has provided a £1.3 million loan to Amor Homes Ltd to complete its luxury development in Cheshire. Assetz Capital states that having built four luxurious homes in South Cheshire the developers are now exiting… Read More

December 1, 2021 @ 1:46 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Assetz Capital has provided a £2.3 million commercial mortgage to Roseberry View Lodges. The capital infusion allows the luxury holiday site to refinance an existing development facility and fund five new lodges in North Yorkshire. In a statement, the company said the loan follows 18… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Laleta Buctkuar notes that she recently joined UK’s Assetz Capital in June of this year, “specifically to focus on bridging products and distribution.” Laleta shared that she began working in financial services more than 20 years ago. Laleta also noted that she had a part-time… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital has announced four new executives that have been hired to help drive the online lending platform to originate £1 per year of loans. The online lender specialises in commercial mortgages, bridging, and development finance, Assetz Capital also announced the full restarting of Retail… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A £1.7m development loan to New Generation Developments is the latest move by Assetz Capital. The specialty lender has facilitated nearly £1.5bn of retail and institutional funds to UK businesses to date. New Generation Developments Ltd, a Cardiff-based construction company, secured the loan to build… Read More

September 18, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan McCandless, Relationship Director at Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, reveals that he re-joined Assetz in June of this year, having previously worked on the Northern Ireland portfolio as a consultant, before the COVID outbreak. As a Relationship Director covering Northern… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Specialist lender Assetz Capital has appointed Mehwish Mirza to the new position of senior relationship manager to its bridging team. Mirza moves over from Glenhawk, where she spent almost two years operating as a business development manager following spells with Together and Gatehouse Bank. She… Read More

August 29, 2021 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lucie Martin, Relationship Director at Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, reveals that she joined the company in November 2019. Martin shared in a blog post by Assetz Capital that she provides term and developments loans to borrowers across Scotland. While commenting… Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The bridging finance sector has changed quite a bit during the past 2 decades. Bridging has gone mainstream and is “constantly growing,” according to an update from Assetz Capital. UK-based Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, notes that in the current  economy, after… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, notes that after the end of the previous COVID-19 loan schemes, the UK Government launched the new Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS). Assetz Capital was accredited to lend via the RLS scheme on July… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, says it’s no secret that there’s been an “unprecedented construction material shortage this year,” in the United Kingdom and few would have “forecast the near-perfect storm that has swept through the sector.” The… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital has now been accredited as a recovery loan scheme lender. The team at Assetz Capital, which serves as a marketplace lending platform, notes that the lender will be delivering property-secured loans “between £250,000 and £10m” to SMEs across the United Kingdom, covering commercial… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lending platform Assetz Capital has added two executives to its bridging team to accelerate the growth of bridge loans. Assetz Capital states that the moves signal a strategic focus on the bridging market for the lender. Since 2013 the Fintech has originated about £1.5… Read More

June 27, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Assetz Capital, a peer-to-peer lender that originates secured loans, notes that it’s pleased to be offering a summer rate “reduction of 0.45%” across all of its loan products to borrowers until July 31, 2021. As mentioned in a blog post by the Assetz Capital… Read More