Can you try your entry #6 again with..... about ten silver lines within the arc (slightly similar to entry #55 but with 3 or 4 lines less than this design) Have the S and E slightly larger text to stand out and keep the basic flat lines either side of the word MORTGAGES as in the majority of your designs
Can you do #56 again but this time cut off approximately half of the black below the logo and a similar amount above to give an even border but the logo overall will be rectangular as opposed to square.....again with the larger S and E........and another all in the same type.
Not sure if it's actually necessary as you as a designer have a square to work within and maybe all of the background is simply left black....
However we like design #56 as it is now, but would prefer the outside dimensions of the logo to be the same as it is now in terms of width/length....but about half as much in height.
In other words, a similar shape to the Indonesia/UK flags above, i.e. rectangular/oblong shaped.
Can you see if you can reduce the black background so that it ONLY is background for the logo itself. For example the black background at the moment may be 2cm above and below the logo and 1cm at the sides. Could you make it so that the black background is around 0.5cm right around the logo, so it more like a banner effect? Thanks David