In their third year, the myintroducer.com Industry Awards attracted votes from over 3,400 individuals, a huge increased on last year's growing awards programme.
It is the only financial services awards programme that is based purely on the majority vote. The organisation or candidate who receives the most nominations wins; no panel of judges are used to pick the winners- the industry decides.
And the winners are:
best specialist broker
Loans Warehouse
runner up: Brightstar Financial
best specialist lender
Blemain
runner up: Funding Circle
best secured loan broker
Loans Warehouse
runner up: Fluent Finance
best secured loan lender
Shawbrook Bank
runner up: Norton Finance
best equity release lender
Aviva
runner up: LV=
best mortgage packager/broker
London & Country
runner up: First Union
best mortgage lender
Halifax
runner up: Nationwide
best mortgage network
Home Loan Partnership
runner up: Legal & General
best buy-to-let lender
BM Solutions
runner up: The Mortgage Works
best short term/bridging lender
Masthaven
runner up: Precise
best debt solutions provider
Promise Solutions
runner up: Ashley Park
best surveyor/valuer
Metropolis
runner up: Colleys
best technology innovation
Promise Solutions
runner up: Funding Circle
best lead generator
LeadPoint
runner up: PAA Leads
lifetime achievement award
Stephen Lawrence of Norton Financial Services
2012's most influential person
Matt Tristram of Loans Warehouse
James lucas, managing director of myintroducer.com said:
"Firstly a huge thanks to everyone who was involved in this years awards programme – our fantastic sponsors, everyone who voted and of course, our category winners and runners up. We have now been running the industry awards for three years and each year has seen an increase in the overall response, enthusiasm and the number of voters getting involved.
"Congratulations to all our winners and runners up in what was a very close run in for many of the award categories and we look forward to continued growth for the awards programme and for myintroducer.com in 2013."
Stephen Lawrence of the Norton Group, said:
"I am delighted to receive this prestigious award as a result of votes cast from Intermediaries in the Lending Industry. I would like to thank those people who voted for me and I look forward to working closely with them in the future."
Marc Goldberg, Director at Blemain Group commented:
"Blemain Group has been supporting brokers and providing specialist finance for nearly 40 years. We are proud that over those years we have continued to offer a wide range of innovative products across the lending spectrum, even through the toughest of times.
"We are still 100% committed to the broker market offering speed, flexibility and a high quality of service, so it is a real honour that our industry peers have acknowledged our commitment with this award."
Stephen Johnson, New Business Director at Shawbrook Ba
