Commercial

MTF appoints BDM

MTF has appointed Richard Sherman has a new business development manager. Sherman (pictured) joins...

£150m funding for LendInvest

LendInvest has secured £150 million of initial funding from investment bank Nomur and alternative...

Connect bolsters commercial lending team

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed a commercial lending specialist to its commercial team. Gareth Norman...

Subsea technology innovator secures £500k growth funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £500,000 export finance facility to Subsea Technologies...

Reward funds nursery acquisition

The Go Wild Bury Private Day Nursery & Creche is now operating under new...

Clear majority of SMEs lack succession plan

64% of bosses of UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do not have a...

IGF increases UK SME lending by 76%

Commercial finance provider Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has reported year-on-year growth in the year to June 2018, with...

Brokers fear further base rate increases

United Trust Bank’s most recent broker sentiment survey has found that 70% of brokers...

Brokers “have never had a better opportunity to diversify”

Chirag Shah, CEO at Nucleus Commercial Finance, has claimed that brokers have never had...

Octopus Property increases regional lending

Specialist property lender Octopus Property has agreed to provide four commercial loans, totalling £35.2...

“Fundamental shift” in the development sector

Specialist packager Thistle Finance has reported a 9% fall in the average size of development finance loan...

Brokers expect lender credit policies to stay the same

A recent broker sentiment survey from United Trust Bank has revealed that around 57%...

VAS Group joins FIBA Professional Partners Panel

VAS Group has become the first valuation panel management and auditing company to join...

Bibby funds £3m MBO in Yorkshire

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided £3m in funding to support the management team...

COMMENT

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...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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