Commercial

CFS launches intermediary health and wellbeing campaign

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has unveiled a long-term health and wellbeing campaign for the...

Crystal appoints corporate relationship manager

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has bolstered its sales function with the appointment of Satwant...

Aspen’s desktop valuation saves development exit

Aspen Bridging has completed a £150,000 development exit bridging loan on a remote property...

Slice of luck as cheese firm secures £1.5m CLBILS loan

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided Bradburys Cheese with a £1.5m loan from...

Reward Finance Group appoints BDM

Reward Finance Group has appointed Simon Micklethwaite as business development director (BDM) for Yorkshire...

Investec funds £16.6m car park-to-office development

Investec’s structured property finance team has agreed to provide a joint venture between Angelo...

Shawbrook’s latest results show Covid impact

Shawbrook Bank's pre-tax profit for the fist six- months of 2020 totalled £5.9 million,...

Brokers vital to SME recovery

Finance brokers will play a key role to play in helping small and medium-sized...

Asset finance market down 41% in June

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that total asset finance...

Aldermore makes asset finance sales hire

Aldermore has appointed Rania Pugh as its new head of sales support for asset...

New identity for Promise Solutions

Promise Solutions has rebranded the business as Promise Money. The packager and master broker is...

Shawbrook returns to partial pre-Covid criteria

Shawbrook’s property division has confirmed that it has returned to some of its pre-pandemic...

Funding 365 unveils development finance product

Bridging lender Funding 365 has moved into development finance with the launch of its...

Covid-19: specialist brokers remain optimistic

Shawbrook’s most recent Broker Barometer has revealed that as the UK emerges from the...

COMMENT

First-time buyers and buy-to-let are not rivals

As we move further into 2026, a familiar narrative is starting to reappear. It suggests that a stronger first-time buyer market will be delivered...

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

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Nationwide completes first live digital mortgage deeds with Veyco technology

Nationwide Building Society has become the first UK lender to complete live mortgage transactions...

CIExpert adds Royal London to income protection insight zone

Royal London has become the latest insurer to join CIExpert’s Income Protection Insight Zone,...

First-time buyers ‘closer than they think’ to owning a home

Most wannabe first-time buyers may be far closer to homeownership than they realise according...

FTBs handed boost as high-LTV mortgage choice hits record

First-time buyers and borrowers with small deposits are entering 2026 with more mortgage choice...

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