The Lending Lab

The Lending Lab is a mortgage and finance broking firm that helps customers reach their goals and take the next step in their financial journey.

How we are different:

 💻 We are tech-focused, minimizing paper documentation and making the process easier for you

 📈 We are skilled in self-employed and business lending to ensure we service all of our customer's needs

 🏦 We are familiar with out-of-the-box lending solutions and work to find a solution for you 

 🎓 We pride ourselves on providing educational content to the general public at no cost and advocate for financial literacy to be taught in schools.

You can find us on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and right here on LinkedIn, speaking about beginner terminology, as well as covering advanced topics. 

Our service is at no cost to you, so why not reach out and see how The Lending Lab could help you?

Recent Individual Awards
📍1st Place Emerging Store Broker - Quarterly Sales Awards (Issued by Aussie Home Loans)
📍State Finalist NSW/ACT - Newcomer Award (Issued by MFAA)
📍Local Area Marketing Award (Issued by Aussie Home Loans)

Director and Chief Operating Officer

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DISCOVER A DIFFERENT PRIVATE LENDING EXPERIENCE

Fast. Reliable. Trustworthy.

We are private finance brokers specialising in sourcing private secured finance from a panel of trusted providers.

https://www.andorraprivate.com.au/

CEO and Founder

Aussie

I lodged over $100m during the first 12 months of my operation under the Aussie branding. 
Helped close to 100 people enter the property market, and collected some stellar google reviews.

Mortgage Broker

Greater Bank

- Complex business and trust lending specialist
 - Assisting the senior banker in managing the top 20 largest credit exposures of the bank
 - Completing annual credit reviews for existing facilities and managing arrears and hardcore debt inline with the bank's policies

Business Banker / Lender

Servicing Commercial and Residential property purchases/refinances as well as business finance 🏢

Hi there! I know your time is important, so here’s what I am about…

💰 Helping you find a loan with suitable terms and features

⏰ Saving you time and money by doing the research and application hard yards for you

🏡 Giving you access to over 50 lenders, providing access to more favourable borrowing terms

👩‍⚖️ Putting you in touch with the right professionals to help you in your home-buying journey

📞 Available to you 24/7 through my direct mobile number, unlike going direct to the bank

🏦 I have access to lenders such as CBA, ANZ, NAB, Westpac, Bankwest, Suncorp, St. George, ING, Macquarie, ME – the list goes on and on. 


Available 7 days a week, contact me below.


Recent Individual Awards
📍1st Place Emerging Store Broker - Quarterly Sales Awards
📍State Finalist NSW/ACT - Newcomer Award 
📍Local Area Marketing Award


🕺 About Me – I am a technology lover and a finance guru. I will set up your loans as if they were my own. I am happily married and have my wife, two cats, and three motorcycles at home. 


📱	Send me a message right here on LinkedIn
📞	Give me a call on 0412 759 847
💻	Book an appointment @ calendly.com/nickclunesbroker

Nick Clunes - Mortgage Broker

Assisting brokers, business owners and customers with unique solutions to unique problems/opportunities via private funding and tailored arrangements.

Director

I founded The Lending Lab to do more of the things I love. Helping people and solving problems.

Utilising a decade of experience across financial services, The Lending Lab is an innovative mortgage brokerage that helps people to home ownership.

We have a flair for the complex, a passion for educating people and a commitment to doing what's right by our customers.

We put out regular video content to help teach Australians about finance.

Founder | Director | Mortgage Broker

With a desire to get back to more tangible work, I took the leadership position in managing and developing the mortgage brokerages for central and west Sydney.

Leading a diverse group of brokers from various levels of experience, backgrounds, and stages of their business through the challenges of Covid-19 and the chaotic opportunity of the biggest property boom in decades gave me tremendous insight.

Coming full circle from previous roles, the idea of consolidating all my skills, experience and passions into my own business finally took root.

Regional Leader - Sydney Central & West

After my time leading managing teams of mortgage brokers, I was promoted to help lead, develop and support the national sales network.

Leading a cross-functional team, I represented the broker network in key projects to help drive results and deliver better customer outcomes.

Senior Manager - National Sales Operations

From my success leading the mobile broking channel, I was charged with managing the retail franchise stores and a group of experienced mobile brokers for SA/NT.

Leading more established and complex businesses was a welcome challenge in which I was highly recognised.

Through my time in this role, I lead experienced mortgage brokerages to grow their businesses, establish or scale their operations and become leaders within their businesses.

I was highly recognised in this role as a leader within the business.

Awards and recognition

🏆National Sales Leader of the Year 2019
🏆SA/WA State Excellence Award 2019
🏆National Innovation Award 2019

Business Leader SA/NT

After my individual success as a lender, I was brought into Aussie to lead and develop a team of self-employed mortgage brokers.

I recruited, coached and mentored a diverse team of brokers from those with 15+ years experience to others starting their first day.

With a focus on delivering great customer service, building the knowledge and skills of my team and a focus on culture, I built a thriving team that was recognised nationally.

Awards & Recognition

🏆National Innovation Award 2017
🏆Conference Social Media Champion SA/WA 2017
🏆SA/WA State Excellence Award

Mobile Business Leader - SA

As a Business Banking Manager, my role was to manage, grow and develop a portfolio of business clients. My clients were a diverse spread of industries, sizes and ownership structures.

This encompassed cash flow lending, commercial and residential property, trade finance, merchant facilities and asset finance. I was able to handle commercial lending up to $1m per customer.

I thrived on the opportunity to work with more established and complex businesses and loved the challenge of helping them grow.

Achievements:

🏆 Appointed to the King William St branch, the flagship ANZ branch for South Australia.
🏆 Delivered customer interview roleplays to ANZ staff as a result of being recognised as a role model for demonstrating excellence in customer service and sales
🏆 ANZ’s national representative and key point of contact for a major franchising group for all new franchising finance opportunities.
🏆 Coaching state managers from the major franchising group on how to engage and develop their staff in identifying finance opportunities.
🏆 Nominated as a “Change Champion” for a new loan platform. A select group of high-performing front-line bankers were chosen to take part in the pilot and provide insight and feedback during its development

Business Banking Manager

This was a pivotal role in my career. Using the sales skills I refined in previous roles, and I was now able to apply this to a fast-paced and complex professional role.

My role was to meet with small business owners who were seeking business loans, equipment or vehicle finance or working capital.
I found a love of helping a customer to grow their business, understanding how their business operates and thriving in the detail of business plans.

I quickly established myself as one of the leading Small Business bankers within ANZ.

Achievements:

🏆 Ranked 1st in metro South Australia and 2nd overall for South Australia
🏆 22nd Nationally for total business lending. 143% of my target in my first year
🏆 Achieved target within my first half, an exceptionally rare achievement

Small Business Specialist

My role as a Personal Banker was to conduct customer reviews with a holistic nature to customers. This involved understanding their goals and position to provide recommendations and implement solutions. 

This role gave me a great grounding in understanding banking, customers' financial goals and challenges.

During the latter part of my tenure, I was designated as a specialist in self-employed customers allowing me to conduct business reviews for small business customers and implement small amounts of pre-approved small business credit limits.

This experience allowed me to overachieve my small business target by 480% and opened the opportunity for promotion as a Small Business Specialist.

Achievements:

🏆 High performance with an average of 153% of target over 1H15
🏆 Private wealth excellence award for my work with high-net-worth clients, which resulted in significant new business. Alone this exceeded the combined target for the entirety of SA for the period.

Personal Banker

👨🏻‍💼   About me as a professional

🧪 Founder and Director of The Lending Lab
🏡 Mortgage broker
🎬 Making educational videos on YouTube
🎓 Coached and mentored hundreds of mortgage brokers
⌛ Over a decade in financial services
💼 Experienced in business finance
🏆 Highly recognised

🙋🏻‍♂️   About me as a person 

🏠 Adelaide 
🐶 Dog person
☕ Coffee Addict, Gin Drinker
🏉 Port Adelaide Footy Supporter
🐉 Geeky enthusiast of Dungeons & Dragons
🪴 Loves indoor plants but keeps killing them

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