Wed Nov 11, 2020
18:30 - 01:00
Hilton London Bankside
Entries are open
The only award programme distinguishing and rewarding individuals, teams and businesses across alternative lending, commercial finance, and mortgage industries, returns. Celebrating and recognising excellence across the entire lending market, the Lending Awards offers an unrivalled opportunity to bring the best of the entire lending profession together.
It is an unprecedented and uncertain time for businesses everywhere, having to change the way they work to continue serving their clients. To reflect the current climate, Credit Strategy has introduced two new categories to this year’s awards programme to highlight business continuity and sustainability. A further 30 categories feature awards for intermediaries, mainstream and specialist lenders, alongside market challengers and suppliers - there is a category for everyone within alternative lending, commercial finance, and mortgage lending.
Entry deadline
Entries usually cost £200 but are complimentary until 7 August 2020. The final entry deadline is 14 August 2020.
Audience
Judges
Enter a category
The awards are independently judged and culminate in a black tie dinner and ceremony at Hilton London Bankside, providing an excellent forum for celebrating success and unparalleled networking opportunities.
Getting started
Click on one of the categories below and login or register for free to view the entry page, what the judges are looking for and to start your entries. From there you can enter as many categories as you wish and can edit and return to your entries as many times as you like before the final deadline.
Entry deadline
Entries usually cost £200 but are complimentary until 7 August 2020. The final entry deadline is 14 August 2020.
Confidentiality
All materials will remain confidential to the judges. Winning case studies may be used in post-event materials to promote best practice, but permission will be sought from entrants before publishing.
Terms & Conditions
By entering the awards, you are agreeing to our terms & conditions. Please click here to view the full terms & conditions.
It’s mandatory for shortlisted companies to have at least one representative at the awards ceremony to collect their award should they win. Therefore, every shortlisted entry has a single seat at the Awards Dinner. Entrants reaching the provisional shortlist will be contacted prior to the public announcement of the full shortlist to pay for your reserved seat and discuss optional table bookings and promotional opportunities. The shortlist will not include entrants who have not secured their seat as once the shortlist is announced publicly, tables sell fast. Therefore, to ensure the full shortlist can attend we have put this measure in place.
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Please contact our events team via email or call 020 7940 4835 - press 4.
Alternative Finance
Organisations that should enter:
Alternative lenders, those who offer alternative forms of consumer lending to traditional high-street retail banking, financial lending disruptors centred around an innovative fintech model and those who consider their lending proposition to target those not historically served by traditional high street retail banking, including payday lending and high-cost short-term lending.
Organisations that should enter:
Alternative lenders, those who offer alternative forms of SME lending to traditional high-street retail banking, financial lending disruptors centred around an innovative fintech model and those who consider their lending proposition to target those not historically served by traditional high street retail banking.
Organisations that should enter:
Challenger banks that offer specialist consumer lending and banking services outside of the core focus of traditional high street banks.
Organisations that should enter:
Organisations who lend money and consider their business model to be based around a new, innovative and disruptive business model with a piece of fintech at its heart.
Organisations that should enter:
Organisations, who offer short-term loans, consider their business model to be based around a new, innovative and disruptive business model with a piece of fintech at its heart.
Organisations that should enter:
Peer-to-peer lending platforms and organisations, crowdfunding platforms, those who lend through a model that matches lenders directly to borrowers.
Organisations that should enter:
Any alternative lenders, who offers alternative forms lending to traditional high-street retail banking, financial lending disruptors centred around an innovative fintech model and those who consider their lending proposition to target those not historically served by traditional high street retail banking.
Commercial Lending
Organisations that should enter:
Organisations that should enter:
Any business acting primarily as an intermediary between UK commercial finance providers and SME customers.
Organisations that should enter:
Any lender providing commercial finance products of any kind to UK business customers, which offers more than one family of products - for example a business which provides invoice finance, as well as asset finance & leasing. Entries may concern a group of businesses providing different products across a range of subsidiaries.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing invoice finance products to UK SMEs, as a specialism or as part of a wider product suite. Please note - businesses which self-define as asset-based finance providers should enter this category.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing lending services to UK businesses, with either a primary focus on, or a significant offering in, the online channel. Brokers and other intermediaries should enter ‘best commercial finance broker’.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing lending services to UK businesses, with a specialism in serving a particular type of customer - this can mean businesses in a particular sector, in a particular risk bracket, or with a particular need in terms of finance. Brokers and other intermediaries should enter ‘best commercial finance broker’.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing commercial finance of any kind to UK SMEs.
Mortgage Lending
Organisations that should enter:
For companies that are defined as building societies by credit trade associations such as the BSA or fit the commonly held definitions of those corporate entities.
Organisations that should enter:
For companies that are defined as mortgage lenders by credit trade associations such as the BSA or UK Finance Association (CML) or fit the commonly held definitions of those corporate entities. Who have been established for more than 10 years and have focus on products that meet mass market needs. Entrants may or may not have high street branches.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business acting primarily as a broker between UK mortgage providers and consumers. The winning entry will demonstrate how the broker has provided best-in-class service not just to the lenders it works with, but also the consumers it serves. Networks & Mortgage Clubs should enter ‘Best mortgage distributor’
Organisations that should enter:
Any business functioning as a distributor between UK mortgage providers and consumers, that operates as either a network, mortgage club or specialist distributor. The winning entry will demonstrate how the distributor has provided best-in-class service not just to the lenders it works with, but also the consumers it serves.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing mortgages to UK consumers, with either a primary focus on, or a significant offering in, the online channel. Brokers and other intermediaries should enter ‘best mortgage broker’ or ‘best mortgage distributor’.
Organisations that should enter:
Any business providing lending services to UK businesses, with a specialism in serving a particular type of customer - this can mean in a particular risk bracket, or with a particular need in terms of finance. Brokers and other intermediaries should enter ‘best mortgage broker’ or ‘best mortgage distributor’.
Organisations that should enter:
Any companies that are defined as mortgage lenders by credit trade associations such as the BSA or UK Finance Association (CML) or fit the commonly held definitions of those corporate entities.
Non-specific
Organisations that should enter:
Marketing professionals and teams, those tasked with external communications and customer service managers and champions for UK alternative finance providers, commercial finance providers or mortgage lenders. External PR organisations and marketing strategists who work with UK alternative finance providers, commercial finance providers or mortgage lenders.
Organisations that should enter:
Any company providing data or data services for use in credit decision-making by UK Alternative finance providers, commercial finance providers or mortgage lenders.
Organisations that should enter:
Any law, consultancy or professional services firm providing advisory or legal services to the UK alternative finance, commercial finance or mortgage sectors.
Organisations that should enter:
Any company providing a technology offering – defined as any software, system, technology service or process innovation – providing a demonstrable commercial advantage for a UK alternative lender, commercial lender or mortgage lender, either directly or indirectly (such as by aiding compliance).
Organisations that should enter:
Organisations that should enter:
Organisations that should enter:
Individuals and teams of servicers which provide debt management and collection services to UK alternative lenders, commercial lenders or mortgage lenders. Award is for the organisation.
Organisations that should enter:
Within your entry, describe how the nominated person, business, team, product, initiative, campaign or concept has had a positive effect on the sector which they operate within (either alternative finance, commercial finance or the mortgage sector), and how it has the potential to change things for good.
Organisations that should enter:
The winning entry will show how a business has created a product, technology, system, process or concept never before seen in their sector (either alternative finance, commercial finance or the mortgage sector), and implemented it with demonstrable success.
Leaders and Pioneers
Who should enter:
A leader of a business operating within either alternative finance, commercial finance or the mortgage sector, who has demonstrated outstanding business leadership in the last 12 months. Judges will examine the progress/growth of the company in the last two years (with particular emphasis on the last 12 months.)
Organisations that should enter:
This award is for those who are in the alternative finance, commercial finance or the mortgage professions, who spend the majority of their time working in either of these three fields. They will need to demonstrate exceptional performance and career development and must have less than five years’ industry service.
Congratulations to all of the 2019 Lending Awards winners.
Best Mortgage Distributor
Legal & General Mortgage Club
Best Specialist Mortgage Lender
Kent Reliance for Intermediaries
Innovation Award - Lending or payment platform
Trade Ledger
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Venue
Address: 2-8 Great Suffolk St, London SE1 0UG
Underground stations (average walking time):
- Southwark (Jubilee Line) – 5 minutes
- Blackfriars (District and Circle) – 6 minutes
- Waterloo (Northern, Jubilee, Waterloo and City lines) – 10 minutes
- London Bridge (Northern and Jubilee) – 10 minutes
Overground stations (average walking time):
- Waterloo East (via Southwark Tube Station Entrance) - 5 minutes
- Blackfriars (direct connections to Gatwick Airport) - 6 minutes
- London Bridge - 10 minutes
The UK’s only full credit cycle event for Alternative Finance, Commercial Finance and Mortgage Lending
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Taking place the same day prior to the Awards, delivering business-critical intelligence and market insight, competitor benchmarking and high-level peer networking, The Lending Summit will explore and delineate the new lending eco-system and innovations in product origination, credit risk assessment, contact strategies, fintech and AI.
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Sparkling drinks reception |
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Sumptuous three-course meal with wine followed by coffee and petit fours |
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Entertainment provided |
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After-party with dancing until 2am |
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A bucket of 10 premium beers |
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Two bottles of premium champagne |
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Table entertainment |
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| License to use Lending Awards winner’s logo |
| Lending Awards certificate |
| Winners photo of you collecting the award |
| Judges’ comments |
| Full page advert in printed Credit Strategy Magazine |
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Double page piece of collaborative content detailing what set your company apart from other finalists |
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