Please refer below for our current service levels to help manage your customer’s expectations for new applications.

Important timescales

New fully-packaged ‘right first time’ applications to approval are taking on average:

TypeAverage number of working days’ for Underwriting assessment
Standard

Applications up to £1m paid in UK Sterling

Employed – 8 w/d

Self-employed – 8 w/d

Non-standard

All foreign income applications plus applications in UK Sterling between £1-3m

Employed – 3 w/d

Self-employed – 3 w/d

Complex Credit

Applications £3m+ paid in UK Sterling and all system declines

Pre-underwriting assessment – 6 w/d

Underwriting assessment – 1 w/d