Specialist lender SDKA has marked its tenth anniversary with a high-profile industry event as the firm reflects on a decade of growth in the bridging market.
More than 250 guests from across the specialist finance sector gathered under the wings of Concorde to celebrate the milestone, including brokers, funders, professional partners and staff.
The event, which raised over £9,000 for Seashell Trust, comes as the bridging sector continues to evolve, with lenders placing increasing emphasis on speed, certainty and relationship-led delivery.
SDKA has positioned itself within this space as an unregulated bridging lender, offering finance across residential, semi-commercial and commercial assets throughout England, Wales and Scotland.
The lender currently provides rates from 0.84% per calendar month and up to 75% loan-to-value, targeting borrowers requiring fast, flexible funding solutions.
The anniversary event was supported by a number of industry sponsors, including TWM Solicitors, Downing, gunnercooke, AJP Surveyors, Visionary Finance, Burlingtons and Igloo Finance.
SPEED AND INNOVATION
Former Boeing 777 pilot for Emirates and founder and managing director of SDKA, Kunal Mehta says: “Concorde stood for something special. Speed, precision and innovation, and that’s exactly what we’ve tried to build with SDKA.
“We built [the business] on doing things properly, doing what we say we’ll do and, most importantly, doing right by people. As a team we stayed disciplined, we stayed honest, we operated with integrity and we kept moving forward.
“I’ve always believed turbulence might shake you and it is most definitely part of the journey, but it never knocks us off course because with this team at SDKA we have the right people in the flightdeck. Here’s to the next phase of the flight ahead.”
