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Pepper Group Limited, a specialist residential mortgage and consumer lender and loan servicer of third-party loan portfolios, spanning a range of asset classes including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto finance, unsecured loans and equipment finance.
Pepper Group operates in targeted market segments in Australia, Ireland, UK, South Korea, Hong Kong and China. Since entering the Irish market four years ago, Pepper has made a significant contribution to the Irish economy and in particular the local economies of Shannon and Dublin where its offices are located. Employee numbers have more than doubled since 2012 and the workforce stands at 430 today and growing.
Importantly, Pepper has had a significant impact on the local economy in Shannon. Over the last few years, Pepper has expanded its footprint at Shannon’s Westpark Business Campus providing high skilled roles in a regional area. The company has been investing in its people over this time, for example, by linking up with the Institute of Bankers to create a bespoke seven-week ‘Boot Camp’ training programme to help up-skill employees and bolster their qualifications.
Pepper has also made a substantial investment in infrastructure, including office space and state-of-the-art IT systems in the area.
In early 2016, Pepper became the first new mortgage lender to enter the Irish market since the banking crash in 2008, and the first non-bank group to offer home loans. The growth Pepper has achieved demonstrates our success. In 2012, as a loan administrator, Pepper had 2 major contracts and now has almost 20 contracts with a high value and harbours plans for further growth. No other loan servicer or lender in Ireland has witnessed the same level of growth in this period.
