Our Journey

We scoop ‘Service Excellence – Lenders’ for the 8th time at the Bridging & Commercial Awards.

During Victory at Villa Park, we raised a total of £5,150 for Prevent Breast Cancer.

Raphael Benggio is named Underwriter of the Year at the 2023 Financial Reporter Awards.

Chief Compliance Office, Shyam Kotecha, is appointed to the board.

We win ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ at the BMF Awards 2023.

Our buy-to-let mortgages go live to all brokers in England and Wales.

Gareth Lewis, formerly Commercial Director, is promoted to Managing Director.

We bag two awards – including BD Manager of the Year – at the Crystal Ball 23.

We win the ‘Service Excellence’ Award for the 7th time at the Bridging & Commercial Awards.

We move to our new, larger office at Broadgate Tower in Liverpool Street.

We scoop ‘Bridging Lender of the Year’ at the 2022 SFI Awards.

We secure investment from J.P. Morgan for the upcoming launch of our buy-to-let proposition.

Our Victory at Villa Park football match raises over £4,000 for Prevent Breast Cancer.

We’re named ‘Best Bridging Finance Provider’ at the Business Moneyfacts Awards 2022.

Our regulated team won ‘Product of the Year’ at the Crystal Ball Awards ’22.

We organise the Charity Christmas Clash and raise over £20,000 for GOSH Charity.

We appoint Chris Patrick as a board member and our first non-executive director.

We win the award for ‘Service Excellence’ at the B&C Awards 2021.

We launch our ESG policy which details how we will contribute to a sustainable future.

Gareth Lewis, Millie Dyson, Lenka Pajkošová & James Anderson appointed directors.

We’re named ‘Best Bridging Finance Provider’ at the Business Moneyfacts Awards 2021.

We raise £8m from Triple Point Investment Management to complete a management buyout.

We enter the regulated bridging loan sector to support clients during Covid-19.

We win the ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ award for the 5th time.

For the 5th time we win the Bridging & Commercial award for ‘Service Excellence.’

We launch our lowest ever rate.

We lower our minimum loan amount to £50,000.

We lower our minimum loan term to 1 – 24 months.

We threw a party to celebrate the brand refresh.

We launch our new brand identity.

Director, Tomer Aboody won’ to ‘Founding Director, Tomer Aboody, wins the ‘Business Leader: Bridging Lender’ award at The British Specialist Lending Awards 2019.

Service Excellence’ award at the Bridging & Commercial Awards 2019 – the 4^th time we’ve won this award.

We win ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ for the 4^th time at the Business Moneyfacts Awards and are placed “Commended” in the ‘Best Bridging Finance Provider’ category.

We’re named ‘Best Short-term Lender’ at the Mortgage Strategy Awards ’19.

We secure £100m of funding from one of the world’s largest global institutional investment managers.

We secure £50m in funding from Insight Investment.

In November, we scoop the award for the ‘Best Residential Lender’ at the Personal Finance Awards.

We win the National Landlord Investment Show Award for Specialist Finance Provider of The Year in 2018.

We launch our new Heavy Refurbishment product.

We turn 10 years old!

We sign the Women in Finance Charter.

We scoop the Financial Reporter Award for ‘Best Short-term Lender’.

We move to larger premises in Holborn, to accommodate our growing team.

We are named ‘Bridging Lender of the Year’ at the PropertyWire Awards.

We scoop the ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ award (for the 3^rd time) at the Business Moneyfacts Awards.

We throw a party to say thank you to our industry colleagues!

We secure £125m of funding from one of the largest global institutional investors in the world.

We win the ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ award once again at the Business Moneyfacts Awards.

Launch of our 24-month product on 1st & 2nd charges!

We feature in Spear’s 500; the guide to the best service providers for HNW individuals.

We scoop the ‘Best Bridging Finance Provider’ award at the Business Moneyfacts Awards.

We’re named in the top 5 property financing companies in Spear’s 500.

We win ‘Best Short-term/Bridging Lender’ at the Financial Reporter Awards.

We launch Bridging Trends with Brightstar Financial, Enness, Positive Lending and SPF Short-term Finance.

We’re placed “Highly Commended” in the ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ category at the Business Moneyfacts Awards. 

We move to a slightly bigger office on Argyll Street near London’s Oxford Circus.

Members vote us ‘Short-term Lender of the Year’ at the annual NACFB Gala Dinner.

We rebrand! Introducing our two emperor penguins to the industry: Penelope and Randolph.

Place “Highly Commended” at the Financial Reporter Awards in the ‘Best Short-term/Bridging Lender’ category.

Scoop the award for ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ at the Business Moneyfacts Awards!

Move to larger offices in Weymouth Street.

We win another award! This time for ‘Service Excellence’ at the Bridging & Commercial Awards 2013.

We win the Financial Reporter Award for ‘Best Bridging Loan Lender’.

Place “Commended” at the Business Moneyfacts Awards in the ‘Best Service from a Bridging Finance Provider’ category.

Launch of our bridging finance product for European investors.

We move to a new office in Hanover Square.

We scoop our first award! ‘Best Bridging Newcomer,’ at the Bridging & Commercial Awards.

We join the Association of Short-term Lenders (ASTL).

We join the Association of Bridging Professionals. This goes on to change its name to the Financial Intermediary of Broker Association in 2017.

We are accepted as a Patron of the NACFB.

We launch our first commercial property products.

We complete our first loan – shop and uppers in Stamford Hill.

We move to our first office.

MT Finance is launched!

The global financial crisis.