Try the CTC Wings thread in the Interview and Sponsorship forum. It's still on the first page I believe.
The selection process is stricter for CTC as far as I'm aware, Oxford has around a 40% pass rate, CTC has around a 4% pass rate but we were told that in 2008, just shy of 10,000 applied for around 168 places. If you are going on the basis of a name, then CTC has just a good a name in the industry, some say better, some say worse than Oxford, that's just a matter of opinion but not many would disagree that CTC is a respected name.
4 stages to the assessment process can be found on their website, best to check there and the CTC Wings thread for more details.
You'll do 7 months in Hamilton, New Zealand. You'll start with 4 weeks of groundschool (used to be difference last month, you could combine flying and PPL groundschool but a CAA audit has canned that) where you won't be flying. After that you start your basic foundation course of flying which lasts for 14-15 weeks (previously 17 weeks) at which point you'll graduate on to the Wings Course on successful completion of either the PPL or the Progress Test set by CTC.
You'll carry on with the syllabus for the remainder of the 7 months whilst studying for the ATPLs. Depending on whether you're integrated / modular, you'll have lectures to attend (integrated) or you can self study (modular).
After the 7 months, you fly back to the UK to sit some of the exams at Bristol.
You then fly back to NZ for 4-5 months where you study the remainder of the ATPLs and then sit them at the end of the 4-5 month stint. You'll still be carrying on with the flying syllabus too.
As for finance, BBVA appear to be a partner bank now. Apparently, they'll assess each case on its individual basis...no mention of unsecured or secured, best to check with CTC.