Yet Another Secured Loan Lender Bites The Dust.
The secured loans industry has seen the demise of yet anther secured loan lender as Link Loans announced it’s closure a few days ago.This is the most recent in a series of secured loan lenders who have suffered a similar fate.
Their parent company Link Lending had been forced to shut down only a few days earlier because their funder Barclays Bank were unwilling to forward any more funds. This going into administation of Link Lending obviously suggested that Link Loans could not be in a strong position themselves.
Nobody could really understand how Link Loans could expect to be funded when Barclays refused to fund their parent company and had forced them into administaion. It looked right away that Link Loans were also almost certain to fall.
Link Loans was a fairly recent entrant into the UK secured loans industry. They obtained their business from secured loans brokers and their method of operating was different from that of other 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 did have underwriting criteria which they supplied to brokers, but after that the way they were required to work was different from that of other secured loan lenders.
Secured loan brokers had to do a credit check for all the prospective Link Loan customers followed by a Land Registery check at the end of which Link Loans had to be provided with all this information. Link could not approve this or otherwise, but they forwarded the facts to their funders to approve the secured loan application.
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.
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Filed under Finance by on Nov 5th, 2009.
