Last night, the industry’s only Secured Loans Awards crowned some of 2014’s key players as well-deserved winners…

300 of the industry’s finest attended the glamorous event at 8 Northumberland last night, which received a bigger turnout than last year’s inaugural show.

The evening featured AMI’s Robert Sinclair, who reminded the room of just how much the industry has accomplished in the past 12 months, during a very newly-regulated environment.

John Malone presented the awards ceremony, which saw some titles swiped from last year’s winners. The new victors included the likes of Loan.co.uk, Sensible Home Finance, Precise Mortgages and the highly-commended Optimum Credit.

Commenting on the evening, Nick Jones, National Sales Manager at Blemain Finance and winner of the 2014 Secured Loan Relationship Manager of the Year Award, said: “As always, a fantastic night was had by all and we’re thrilled to have secured two more awards to add to the roster. It’s fantastic to be rewarded and recognised by our peers and to win awards in such competitive categories is a real testament to the skill and experience of the whole team here at Blemain Finance. People like omega replica watches i think so, but some people like other brand.

“We’ve made a number of changes this year to simplify the funding process for our broker network and streamline our product range and we’re glad this is being recognised. A fantastic start to what is set to be a very exciting year here at Blemain Finance.”

Congratulations to the winners:    

Outstanding Contribution to the Secured Loans Industry Award
Winner: Simon Stern – Prestige Finance

Lifetime Achievement Award
Philip George of Shawbrook Bank

Best Secured Loans Newcomer 2014
Winner: Loan.co.uk
Highly commended: Optimum Credit

Secured Loans Product of the Year
Winner: Precise Mortgages
Highly commended: Prestige Finance

Best Adverse Secured Loan Product 2014
Winner: Evolution Money
Highly commended: Blemain Finance

Best Use of Technology in Secured Lending 2014
Winner: Freedom Finance – Lending Wizard
Highly commended: Y3S – miloan

Best Secured Loans Product Range 2014
Winner: Blemain Finance
Highly commended: Shawbrook Bank

Best Secured Loans Valuer of the Year
Winner: OCK Chartered Surveyors
Highly commended: Metropolis Surveyors

Secured Loans Relationship Manager of the Year
Winner: Nick Jones – Blemain Finance
Highly commended: Claire Rankin – Shawbrook Bank

Broker Service Excellence Award 2014
Winner: CSC Loans
Highly commended: Freedom Finance

Lender Service Excellence Award 2014
Winner: Shawbrook Bank
Highly commended: Masthaven Secured Loans

Best Secured Loans Distributor of the Year
Winner: Sensible Home Finance
Highly commended: Loans Warehouse

Best Secured Loans Broker of the Year
Winner: The Loan Partnership
Joint highly commended: V Loans and Freedom Finance

Secured Loans Personality of the Year 2014
Winner: Simon Stern – Prestige Finance

Secured Loans Lender of the Year 2014
Winner: Shawbrook Bank
Highly commended: Prestige Finance

To mark the occasion, we’ve selected a number of tweets from a number of attendees that joined last night’s celebrations.

The Loan Talk team would like to thank the industry for its ongoing support and we hope all attendees had a fantastic evening. Make sure to look out for next week’s newsletter, where we will be publishing the 2014 awards gallery.