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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Finance |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | David Weymouth (Chairman) Andy Golding (CEO) April Talintyre (CFO) |
Products | Financial services |
Revenue | £224.9 million (2018) [1] |
£158.2 million (2018) [1] | |
£120.8 million (2018) [1] | |
Website | www |
Charter Court Financial Services Group plc (Charter Court) is a financial services company operating in the United Kingdom, which provides retail savings products, specialist mortgage products, mortgage administration services and credit analysis. Charter Court operates via three separate specialist brands: Charter Savings Bank for retail savings, Precise Mortgages for specialist mortgages and Exact Mortgage Experts for credit analysis and servicing of existing mortgage portfolios. [2]
Charter Court is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and regulated by the PRA and the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. [3] It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until it was acquired by OneSavings Bank in October 2019.
The company was established with long term investment provided by Elliott Associates LP and Elliott International LP, to provide credit consultancy and mortgage administration services for pools of mortgage loans owned by third parties in 2008. [4]
In 2009, after working for nearly a year on building and testing its mortgage origination and servicing platforms, Charter Court obtained permission from the Financial Services Authority (now Financial Conduct Authority) to act as an authorised mortgage administrator. Charter Court was granted permission by the Financial Services Authority (now Financial Conduct Authority) to act as an authorised mortgage lender in October 2010. [5]
In January 2015, Charter Court obtained its banking licence from the Prudential Regulatory Authority, putting it among the first new banks in the UK to be granted a licence since the onset of the global financial crisis. This was followed in March 2015 by the launch of Charter Savings Bank as an online retail savings bank. [5]
In September 2017 Charter Court successfully conducted an initial public offering and on 4 October 2017 obtained a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. [6]
In March 2019 it was announced that Charter Court and OneSavings Bank would merge. [7] The transaction was completed in October 2019. [8]
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Exact Mortgage Experts is a Fitch-rated mortgage servicer, administering mortgages originated by Precise Mortgages and selected third parties. It offers portfolio trading pricing, specialist analytics and credit consultancy to institutional clients. In April 2015 Fitch upgraded Exact's Special Servicer Rating to RSS2, while in September 2016 Exact's Primary Servicer rating was upgraded to RPS2. [9]
Notable authorisations and licences since launch include:
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