Commercial

P2P platform gets IFISA green light

LandlordInvest has secured ISA manager approval from HM Revenue and Customs. The FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform...

Record growth for asset finance provider

Praetura Asset Finance has reported a 24% increase in the number of cases and a...

InterBay revamps commercial and semi-commercial offering

InterBay Commercial has cut rates across its commercial and semi-commercial range and implemented a...

Broker confidence rallies despite Brexit

Shawbrook Bank's latest Property Finance Broker Barometer has found that brokers across the board remain confident...

P2P lending platform receives full FCA authorisation

Peer to peer lending platform Octopus Choice has become the first adviser-focused P2P platform to be...

IGF provides key funding line to tech firm

Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has provided a £1.5 million...

New BDM for Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance has appointed Gary Playle as its new business development manager to...

Medium-sized businesses hit hardest by late payments

61% of invoices issued by UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) remain unpaid...

ThinCats makes board-level appointments

Peer-to-peer lender ThinCats has appointed Jill Sandford and Damon Walford to the board of...

BFS grows its factoring market share

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has increased its share of the factoring market further in...

Three senior appointments at IGF

SME commercial finance provider, IGF, has announced the appointment of senior hires across the...

Entrepreneurs’ equity finance demand continues to grow

A new report shows that small business appetite for long term equity-based finance has increased...

Brightstar expands unsecured range

Brightstar has revealed that it completed over £1 million worth of unsecured business loans in...

Shawbrook Commercial cuts pricing

Shawbrook Bank has unveiled reduced rates of up to 1.06% on commercial products and...
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COMMENT

networks

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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Buy-to-let

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...
News

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...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

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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