Commercial

Record results for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on over £1bn worth of business in 2015, a 62%...

Bibby appoints group risk director

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Ian Ramsden as group risk director on a...

UTB makes new board appointment

United Trust Bank has announced the appointment of Jonathan Ayres as chief financial officer...

7-year high for asset finance new business

Growth in asset finance new business, primarily leasing and hire purchase, totalled 12% in...

Auction house celebrates commercial property success

Auction house Allsop sold £449m of offices, shops and warehouses across six auctions in...

A further 700,000 households in default by 2020

Consumer debt defaults will increase by 17% over the next five years according to...

New property finance show unveiled

Front Events, the organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE), are to launch a...

Hitachi Capital commits to NACFB apprenticeship scheme

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has announced the first apprentice to...

Ultimate Construction Finance adds to team

Ultimate Construction Finance has expanded its team with the appointment of Glyn Jones as...

UTB unveils two new development finance products

United Trust Bank has launched two new products designed to simplify the financial side of...

Invoice financier partners with SME funding portal

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has joined alternativebusinessfunding.co.uk (ABF), a service for SMEs searching for...

Member milestone for Connect

Connect for Intermediaries now has over 100 Appointed Representative (AR) members. The specialist buy-to-let and commercial...

NACFB outlines commercial expo plans

The NACFB’s Commercial Finance Expo (CFE) is now open for bookings. The seventh annual expo...

Dragonfly expands BDM team

Dragonfly Property Finance has added two more external business development managers (BDMs) to its...

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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