Commercial

New Manchester office for Amicius

Amicus Finance has opened a new office on Princess Street in the centre of Manchester,...

Aldermore boosts business finance risk team

Aldermore has made several new appointments to its business finance risk management function. Jerry Barrie...

NACFB appoints interim CEO

Rob Lankey has been appointed interim CEO of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). The...

Together funds £1.78m in 48 hours

Specialist lender Together and Finance 4 Business have completed six deals in two days...

LendInvest publishes academy course speaker list

LendInvest has revealed the speaker line-up for the inaugural Property Development Academy course. Tom Bloxham will be...

SMEs need better protection against late payers

Hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have not been protected from...

Aldermore sees 20% rise in new lending

Aldermore Bank has reported £2.3bn in originations for the first nine months of 2016. During that period, net...

Strong start in Scotland for LendInvest

LendInvest has completed a series of both bridging and development finance cases in Scotland,...

RBS sets aside £400m for SME redress

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is establishing a new complaints process, overseen by a retired...

CSF helps local business to expand

A small Midlands-based family business has been able to open new retail premises, with...

Ultimate Finance makes key sales appointment

Ultimate Finance has recruited Vince Tovey as its national head of sales for trade finance,...

Fortwell Capital joins CREFCE

Fortwell Capital has become a trade association member of CREFC Europe (CREFCE) and will...

Shawbrook originations up 23%

Shawbrook Group has issued its interim management statement for the nine months from 1 January 2016 to...

New development ‘exit’ deal from LendInvest

LendInvest has unveiled a new development exit finance product. It has been designed for developers whose project...
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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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