Commercial

Shawbrook appoints business finance MD

Shawbrook Group plc has announced that Simon Featherstone has joined as managing director of its business finance...

New brand identity for Y3S Group

Cardiff-based specialist finance group Y3S has unveiled its latest brand identity,overhauling it for the first time...

FHL sees ‘substantial’ growth in limited company BTL enquiries

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has reported that, since launching with pricing for its limited...

Aldermore reduces limited company BTL rates

Aldermore has cut rates on its range of specialist limited company (single residential unit) buy-to-let products. The...

Colin Bell joins Hampshire Trust to spearhead commercial launch

Colin Bell has become managing director of commercial mortgages at Hampshire Trust Bank. He has...

Experian moves to tackle invoice fraud

A new facility from Experian, Bank Wizard Absolute, aims to tackle the rapidly growing...

Roma Finance lowers rates

Roma Finance has unveiled an updated product range. The Manchester-based bridging finance and development lender plans...

Major improvement in access to finance say SMEs

44% of small and medium-sized firms applying for development finance over the past year...

Together appoints general counsel

Nigel Dale is to join Together as its general counsel. He is currently a banking...

Bibby moves into FX market

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) is to launch a new foreign exchange division in 2016...

OneSavings Bank hires sales chief

OneSavings Bank has announced the appointment of Adrian Moloney as its new sales director...

Together appoints group valuations manager

Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, following 12 years with...

Triodos Bank reaches £250m lending milestone

Triodos Bank arranged lending facilities totalling more than £25m to seven different housing association customers...

RBS provides Williams & Glyn disposal update

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc has published an update on its progress in...
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COMMENT

Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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Precise launches cashback products and cuts rates

Precise has launched a new range of 60% LTV ‘limited edition’ products and reduced...
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West Brom launches interest-only and discounted products

West Brom Building Society has launched new interest-only and discount variable products and reduced...
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The Right Academy targets 100 trainee advisers after strong start

The Right Academy, the specialist training programme from The Right Mortgage & Protection Network,...
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Furness BS reports record app-to-offer rates

Furness Building Society is reporting record app-to-offer rates as it continues to roll out...

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