Commercial

Metro Bank moves into SME insurance

Metro Bank has partnered with Churchill Expert, part of the Direct Line Group, to...

IGF appoints asset based lending director 

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has appointed Jamie O’Neill as asset based lending (ABL) director. He will focus on origination activity...

3% growth in asset finance market

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that total asset finance new business...

Specialist property lender appoints offshore funding director

Sancus has appointed Matt Davies as director, offshore funding in its Jersey office to...

FIBA members now have access to FutureBricks’ offering

Members of the Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) can now access FutureBricks’ full...

Paragon Development Finance appoints deputy managing director

Paragon Development Finance has announced the appointment of Neal Moy as deputy managing director. Moy...

Nucleus Commercial Finance to offer RLS term loans

Nucleus Commercial Finance has been accredited by the British Business Bank under the government-backed...

SoMo reports record first half of 2021

Specialist lender SoMo has lent over £184m since the beginning of the year. It has redeemed...

Recognise Bank appoints head of credit

Gavin Keyte has been appointed head of credit at Recognise Bank. He joins the new...

Atelier provides real-time dashboard for borrowers

Development lender Atelier has launched a secure platform that enables borrowers to view and...

TAB secures private equity funding

TAB has secured a funding line with an undisclosed global private equity firm and...

Fiduciam funds complex Manchester £5m development loan

Fiduciam has provided a £5m development loan for the construction of a £10m seven-storey...

Castle Trust provides £13.2m development loan for Build to Rent Scheme

Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan with Laner Ltd, for a...

MAB’s Scottish network partner hires commercial ops director

Mortgage Advice Bureau’s Regional Network Partner in Scotland has expanded its senior team with...
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networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...
Analysis

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...
Economy

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...
First-time buyers

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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