2012 myintroducer.com industry award winners

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