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                           Tenetlime (Formerly LIME)

                              History and Information



Lifetime Insurance Mortgage Experts (LIME) was launched by The Tenet group which at that

time was the largest UK independently owned IFA group in January 2004.  The purpose of

the network is to offer compliance and other support to Mortgage brokers, with an initial aim

of having a panel of around 30 lenders with a target of 3,000 members over the next 2 years,

with free Mortgage Brain and membership of the Association of Mortgage intermediaries.


February 2011

Tenetlime made a pretax loss of £568,505 March 2004


March 2010

Following extensive independent research into what intermediaries want Lime changed it’s name to Tenetlime to reflect the new corporate structure, and used different colours on it’s stationery.


February 2010

Lime made a pretax loss of £408,308, Jon Barham has been appointed as head of sales for LIME.  Initially joining LIME in June 2009 as a regional business manager, Jon was previously a partner in a Wiltshire based independent financial advisers.


September 2008

MortgageStream is joined up with Lifetime Insurance Mortgage Experts.  The badged system offers a complete client management system to its brokers.


October 2006

LIME announces that it has now over 1,000 brokers using its services.  This should not be confused with Appointed Representatives however, with 283 AR’s registered with LIME on the FSA register at 24th march 2009.


May 2006

LIME launches “LIME International” the facility is aimed at helping brokers who are not experienced in overseas mortgages but would like to get into that market.  There is also the facility to introduce mortgages through Conti and Blevins Franks Mortgage Services for brokers who would rather not get into overseas mortgages personally.


March 2006

Tenet, the parent company of LIME has launched LIME direct for Directly Authorised Advisers.  The package will give its DA’s access to discounted sourcing software, a mortgage and insurance introducer facility and a free technical helpdesk.


November 2005

LIME has established a secured loan offering for its Appointed Representatives with Norton Finance.  The deal allows the placing of secured loans through Norton but also offers one to one coaching on secured loans from Norton staff.


October 2004

Lime, along with Home of Choice has opted for Trigold as the sourcing system for its Appointed Representatives.  The Trigold system also incorporates Compliance Shield, which will allow remote compliance monitoring functions for the mortgage network.


September 2004

LIME forms an alliance with Exclusive Connections, who were at that time the largest mortgage packager in the market. The service included 17 lenders on its packaged panel with enhanced commission rates on some products.


July 2004

The LIME mortgage network launches a “select lender partnership”.  The idea being to offer its Appointed Representatives increased proc fees and training from lenders in the select panel.  These are The Woolwich, Northern Rock, First Active, GMAC-RFC, Kensington, Halifax, Intelligent Finance, Mortgages PLC, Platform Home Loans, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.


June 2004

Tenet, the parent company of LIME has purchased the pure protection network “Premier” for an undisclosed sum.  It is planned to run the network alongside LIME, M&E and Interdependence, keeping the Premier brand name.


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