Mortgage brokerage partners with online lender

The partnership will enable Mortgage Choice brokers to access Propsa’s online platform, which provides customers with unsecured loans of between $5,000 to $250,000. Prospa will also offer brokers best practice tools and education.

Mortgage Choice’s general manager of product Emma Dupont-Brown said that the company was “very excited” by the partnership, adding: “A significant proportion of our customers are small business owners who have very specific commercial lending and cash flow financing needs.

“Prospa specifically services this particular customer segment with quick-to-market, innovative cash flow solutions.”

Highlighting that the online lender was chosen because it was a “leader in the field”, Ms Dupont-Brown said that the platform was useful in that it was all online, thus negating the need for “cumbersome paperwork”.

“For these reasons and more, I am confident that Prospa will be a great addition to the Mortgage Choice commercial offering,” she said.

Prospa’s head of sales and business development, Matt Bauld, added that both companies have “shared values”.

He said: “Mortgage Choice shares our values – they care about customers, they’re forward thinking and there's a strong focus on learning and development for their people.”

Mr Bauld added that Propsa will “continue to invest in [its] partnerships and find smarter ways to improve the way people experience finance.”

The partnership marks the latest steps the broking industry has taken to take advantage of the "underserved" SME market, only a fifth of which currently uses a finance broker (according to a My Business SME Insight survey).

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