Company profile
Here you will find information about Platform's history, strategy
and culture and values.
History
Platform is the intermediary lender of
Britannia Building Society.
We launched in February 2003 and were created from the merger
of Platform Home Loans and Verso, both Britannia
subsidiaries. To date, we have originated
over 157,000 mortgages worth
over £15.1bn of mortgage business.
Strategy
Our mission is to be known as the
intermediaries’ favourite lender- a great organisation to which our
intermediaries and people are proud to belong.
As the sole intermediary lender of
Britannia Building Society, we offer a service for intermediaries
that includes the reassurance of strength and security.
Our product range offers Prime to
Non-Conforming lending including Buy to Let and Self-Certification.
This means that we can meet the needs of a wide variety of
borrowers, whatever their aims and circumstances. We
help our intermediary customers find the right mortgage
from our product range with just one application
using a cascade underwriting facility. If a case fails from a
credit perspective, the mortgage application can be moved down the
credit scale, and offered on our Non-Conforming range of
products.
Platform is on the mortgage panel of a
number of major insurance companies, broker networks and estate
agency chains and our products are distributed through
mortgage advisers who must be authorised, either directly or via a
principle with the Financial Services Authority. They must also
hold a current Consumer Credit Licence and have Professional
Indemnity Insurance.
Platform is also a member of the
Council of Mortgage Lenders, an associate member of the Association
of Mortgage Intermediaries and NACFB – National Association of
Commercial Finance Brokers.
More information is
also available on Britannia's
strategy.
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Culture and
values
Our purpose, our mission, and our
values underpin everything we do.
Our purpose
“Working together to help our
intermediaries achieve their customers’ financial aspirations”
Our
mission
“To be the intermediaries' favourite lender”
Our mission forms part of our overall
Vision which is about people. We seek to work in partnership with
our customers, creating value and building loyalty. Our staff are
proud of what they do, committed to growing the business and living
the Platform values.
Our
values
We share the same values as our parent company, the Britannia
Building Society, and they form the heart of our Business,
everyday, everywhere.
- Putting our customers first
- Being easy to do business with
- Being excellent at communications
- Taking personal responsibility
- Striving to be faster, cheaper, better
More information is also available
on Britannia's
culture and values.
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