Commercial

CSF launches 2021 health & wellbeing video series

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has published the first of 12 Health and Wellbeing video...

Roma Finance joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Roma Finance has become the latest provider to joins the panel of Legal &...

Glenhawk appoints COO and MD

Glenhawk has announced the appointments of Damani Johnson as chief operating officer and Nick...

OSB sales teams restructured

Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries and InterBay Commercial sales teams have been restructured. Field-based...

Suros Capital partners with Loans Warehouse

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has joined the lender panel of specialist distributor, Loans...

Nucleus Commercial Finance sets £200m CBILS lending target

Nucleus Commercial Finance is aiming to lend £200 million to SMEs through the Coronavirus...

Trio of senior hires at Bibby

SME financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has made three new senior hires. Axel Scholz,...

Shawbrook acquires RateSetter team and portfolio

Shawbrook Bank has acquired RateSetter’s peer-to-peer funded development finance business. The deal includes the purchase...

Avamore Capital integrates with Nivo

Avamore Capital has continued to digitise its end-to-end lending process with the integration of...

Half of SMEs unprepared for Brexit

47% of SMEs who import goods and services from the EU and 43% of SMEs...

Aldermore completes its largest commercial mortgage

Aldermore has provided a £29m, 10-year, interest-only commercial residential investment refinance facility. The deal represents...

14% fall in asset finance new business in October

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

West One relaunches offering with wider distribution

West One Loans, which until now distributed its products through a limited network of key relationships, is widening...

MFS to be FIBA 2021 conference lead sponsor

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been announced as the lead sponsor of The Financial...
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Artificial Intelligence

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect and will shortly be choosing the colour scheme of No...

Buy-to-let: reality versus a much-peddled narrative

Every few months, it seems, another report emerges suggesting buy-to-let no longer stacks up as an investment proposition. The headlines are often dramatic, the...

A week of progress and reassurance

The past week has brought further reassurance for borrowers. With the Bank of England holding the base rate as expected and inflation remaining steady...

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

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AR market consolidates as revenues rise despite fewer principal firms

The UK's appointed representative market is becoming more concentrated, with fewer principal firms overseeing...
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Hodge broadens property lending criteria across residential ranges

Hodge Bank has expanded its property lending criteria, widening access to mortgage finance for...
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GCC searches for UK homes rise 16%

Searches for UK residential property from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) investors increased by 16%...
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Mortgage market still failing to understand freelancers

The mortgage market has yet to fully adapt to the growth of freelance and...

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