Commercial

Reward Finance Group appoints group MD

Nick Smith has been promoted to the position of group managing director of Reward Finance...

Nucleus Commercial Finance appoints Midlands BDM

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its business development team in the Midlands with the...

Covid-19: Aldermore offers asset finance under CBILS

Aldermore is now offering the asset finance variant of the British Business Bank’s Coronavirus...

Nucleus Commercial Finance appoints regional sales director

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its asset based lending team (ABL) in Yorkshire, with...

Bathgate Business Finance appoints BDM

Bathgate Business Finance has welcomed property finance specialist Ben Humphreys as business development manager...

Oblix Capital tech partnership minimises remote working impact

Oblix Capital has teamed up with technology firm Nivo Solutions to enable the use...

P2P lender appoints non-executive director

Peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has announced that John Mould, former CEO of ESF Capital &...

Whisky distillery secures £3.5m ABL deal

Whisky maker The Lakes Distillery has received a £3.5 million asset-based lending facility from...

One Stop Business Finance expands BD team

SME funder One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has expanded its client servicing team with...

Robert Sinclair: “I fear for non-bank lenders”

The chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned that the coronavirus...

Roma Finance stops new business lending

Bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, Roma Finance, has temporarily stopped accepting new business...

Fiducia Group launches new asset finance division

Fiducia Group has unveiled a new asset finance division offering bespoke funding solutions to...

Fast support for businesses called for

Research undertaken just prior to Coronavirus hitting, showed that over 2.6 million UK SMEs...

FLA reports January new business growth

New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that FLA members...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage...

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

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