With a focus on doing quality business, the Commonwealth Bank is a genuine supporter of development and education in the mortgage industry.

Led by Kathy Cummings, the Bank’s Third Party team takes a value-added approach in dealings with its broker business partners and has a long-term commitment to the mortgage broking industry.

 With over 10 million customers and a leading share of the mortgage market, the Commonwealth Bank caters to a range of very diverse customer needs.

 The Bank’s vision is to be Australia’s finest financial services organisation through excelling in customer service, and as such we value, respect and benefit by celebrating differences in the workplace as we make delivering service excellence our priority.

As sole primary sponsor of the WIMBN, the Commonwealth Bank is proud to support females in the mortgage business – an incredible group of women which continues to grow in both size and success. 

The Professional Lenders Association Network of Australia is one of Australia’s largest mortgage broking aggregators with over 2000 members, lodging in excess of $2.2 billion in loans per month.

PLAN Australia provides mortgage professionals access to an extensive range of home and commercial loan products from Australia’s leading institutions and a superior business system that includes operations, technology and marketing support. It is a member of the MFAA and FBAA.

PLAN Australia supports independent mortgage brokers/brokerages with a range of products and services, that include a wide range of mortgage and commercial loan products, commission management systems, provision of mortgage software, compliance support and development and maintenance of member websites.

Benefits of membership also include:

>Trail ownership        > Customer ownership      > Operate under member’s brand     > Commission paid through Trust

For more details, visit www.planaustralia.com.au or call 1300 78 78 14

BankWest was one of the first banks in Western Australia to initiate and support the use of the broker channel in the mortgage and finance industry in the early 90’s.  We’ve always supported channel of choice for our customers, and as a part of that, the broker industry is one channel we offer our customers in addition to telephone and internet banking, and branches. Brokers are an important part of our growth strategy.  

BankWest only deal with MFAA or FBAA accredited brokers and we have continued with our stringent lending process which ensures we maintain a strong credit risk focus and enhance our reputation as a highly regarded lender in Australia.  

During 2007 BankWest achieved the following:
 

• Eight gold awards in Money Magazine’s 2007 Best of the Best Awards;  
• Won four categories at the Financial Review Smart Investor Blue Ribbon Awards including Home Loan Lender of the Year;
• The best Partnership Managers in the Business;  33 across the country and 12 Assistant Partnership Managers;
• Won the Best Use of Technology and Automation to Improve Turn Around Times from Origination to Settlement in the 2007   IQPC Mortgage Processing Excellence Awards

For more information on BankWest, visit: www.bankwest.com.au  or phone 131718

Cherry Solutions is a Melbourne based National Recruitment Specialist. For nearly a decade it has been providing highly skilled and motivated people to the Mortgage Broking, Origination, Aggregator and Lending sectors.

For more information on Cherry Solutions, visit: www.cherrysolutions.com.au