Commercial

UK SMEs have Brexit anxiety over investing

UK SMEs are least likely to invest in their businesses during the remainder of...

Brightstar Financial joins SmartrRefer panel

Brightstar Financial has become the latest distributor to be added to SmartrRefer, the new...

Signature Private Finance hires relationship manager

Privately-owned principal lender, Signature Private Finance, has promoted Nazia Yaqub to the position of...

Simply’s block discounting facility rises to £30m

SME funder, Simply, has received a further increase to its funding line from Aldermore...

One Stop Business Finance expands operations and brokering team

Alternative SME funding specialist, One Stop Business Finance, has appointed Collette Munson to its...

New development finance proposition from Castle Trust

Castle Trust has revamped its development finance offering with the recruitment of Simon Whitfield...

United Trust Bank appoints NED to board of directors

Sarah Laessig has joined the board of United Trust Bank as a non-executive director...

Sirius office move as part of expansion plans

Specialist property finance broker Sirius Property Finance has moved to new, larger offices in...

Impact Specialist Finance added to SmartrRefer

Impact Specialist Finance has joined SmartrRefer, Legal & General Mortgage Club’s approved specialist distribution panel. Legal...

Oblix Capital: improve standards ahead of regulation

Oblix Capital has backed calls to improve industry standards and transparency, ahead of the...

Shawbrook appoints regional development manager for Scotland

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Simon Smith as regional development manager. He will be based in...

Fiduciam grows all-female Spanish team

Fiduciam has increased its Spanish team to eight, following the recruitment of three new...

Aldermore funds NHS recruitment business

Aldermore has provided a £250,000 finance deal to NHS recruitment specialist, Focusmed24. Focusmed24 supplies medical...

New property finance provider launches

West Rock Capital, a London-based boutique debt advisory business, has been launched by Westley Richards. Richards...

COMMENT

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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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