Commercial

BFS now writing one in five of all invoice finance deals

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) made £220m in funding available to UK businesses during the...

Shawbrook appoints head of networks

Caroline Mirakian, formerly of Metro Bank, has joined Shawbrook Bank as head of networks...

Oblix funds £4.5m exit for Thistle Finance developer

Thistle Finance has completed £4.5m exit facility on a residential development in Gosport through...

InterBay Commercial partners with Brightstar for £18m loan

InterBay Commercial has teamed up with Brightstar Financial to expedite a loan of over £18m...

FIBA introduces Professional Partners Panel

Trade body FIBA has established a Professional Partners Panel. It is designed to provide advisers...

Bibby Financial Services makes Yorkshire appointment

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Lauren Maloney as a business development manager (BDM),...

Together launches £525m commercial warehouse facility

Together Financial Services has launched a new £525m warehouse facility for its small balance...

InterBay partners with Legal & General Mortgage Club

InterBay Commercial has partnered with Legal & General Mortgage Club. Club members will be able...

Paragon acquires development finance provider

Paragon Banking Group has acquired Titlestone Property Finance Limited for around £48 million. ...

Laybourne Finance becomes latest Shawbrook strategic partner

Specialist lending brokerage Laybourne Finance has joined Shawbrook’s strategic broker panel. Laybourne Finance was formed in...

Brokers frustrated by lenders changing their minds

LendInvest surveyed brokers at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo in Birmingham last week to discover...

F4B raises £10k for Stiliyan Petrov charity

Finance 4 Business (F4B) has raised £10,000 for a footballer's charity. The team at 4B...

FIBA/ASTL roundtable agrees action plan

Last week saw the second joint roundtable between the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association...

Asset finance brokers feel most competition from customers’ own banks

United Trust Bank (UTB) has reported that 27% of asset finance brokers say they...

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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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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