National Credit, now trading as NC Mortgage Brokers, was incorporated in 1937. The company's original shareholders included Thomas Murphy, the owner of Independent Newspapers, the right honourable James Mc Mahon, a former under-secretary of state, Arthur Cox, a prominent Dublin solicitor and Brennan Insurances, a large Irish insurance broker. In 1949 New Ireland Assurance purchased all of National Credit's shares and took full control of the company. Some eight years later, in 1957, National Credit was one of the founder members of the Irish Finance Houses Association, a trade organisation composed of banks and other financial institutions engaged in the provision of consumer and industrial finance. In 1991 Paul Mackay, Chartered Accountant acquired the interests of New Ireland and is the sole shareholder.
NC Mortgage Brokers can boast a remarkably long and successful history of providing attractive and cost effective loan facilities in Ireland. Today it specialises in the provision of mortgages and re-mortgages for the residential and commercial markets. It has a close working relationship with all of the principal lending institutions and life assurance companies in Ireland and is one of the leaders in the highly competitive Irish mortgage market. In addition to Irish mortgages and re-mortgages, NC Mortgage Brokers provides a number of other products and services such as home insurance, life assurance, and pension advice. National Credit Financial Services t/a NC Mortgage Brokers is regulated by theFinancial Regulator and is a Credit Institution under the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1995.