Release Equity From Your Publicly Listed Stocks And Shares The global marketplace is relatively new at dealing with stock loans and stock-secured financing. For a long time, only clients with a high net worth and large international corporation accounts were able to access equity and stock loans – but not anymore. There are more and more people such as company directors and major company shareholders using stock loans to finance other purchases or even just to free up equity from their current stock holding. Here at Platinum Global Bridging Finance, we are working to introduce this product to all our
Read more →When completing on a property transaction, finding the right unregulated bridging loans can prove very challenging. This is not due to the lack of products available, but more choosing from the thousands of products on the market. Finding an experienced lender who can offer a loan that meets specific needs is also hard. Twenty years ago, not many property buyers would have considered bridging loans. At the time, this was due to specialist finance lenders making up a tiny proportion of the wider lending market. After the global financial crisis, however, bridging loans became a popular option for investors in
Read more →1. If you aren’t stock lending yet or issuing stock loans, you should seriously consider starting Some people may be concerned about making their securities available for loan to short-sellers. I am not going to get into the philosophical debate about the merits of short-selling here, but if you think that you joining the market is going to enable short sellers further, think again. There are already over $20 trillion of securities available for loan from a broad array of investors segments around the world, so unless you have a huge small-cap portfolio that’s new to the market, it’s unlikely
Read more →Has Covid 19 Changed The Bridging Lending Market The lockdown period has proven to be a trying period for the property sector. With the UK Government actively discouraging people from moving property, lenders, borrowers, agencies and brokers were placed in a precarious position. Short-term relief measures were introduced to support those affected, but the lack of certainty made it incredibly difficult to prepare for the future. Finally, it looks as though things could be returning back to relative normality. I say relative because we still do not know when social distancing measures will be lifted entirely. Some people are more
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There are several ways to arrange property development finance and several types of lenders in the market. What is common to them all is their need to understand and to have confidence in the way that they are going to be paid back. So, lenders will ask a number of questions at application stage about how this is going to be achieved and they will form an opinion on the credibility of the borrower’s strategy. That opinion is no less important than all the other aspects of the loan application and if the lender does not believe in the strategy,
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What Are Spain Bridging Loans? Bridging loans for Spain are a specialist kind of loan designed solely for shorter term usage to provide a temporary cash flow solution or ‘bridge’ before additional permanent finance becomes available. The method for obtaining a bridging loan is straightforward and really versatile with a more flexible set of criteria than is usually required by most high street banks and mortgage lenders. Like a mortgage, a bridging loan is secured against your property. With bridging a realistic and viable exit will be required by the lender. How Do Bridging Loans for Spain Work? Bridging loans are
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