Commercial

SMEs avoiding insurance despite increased turnover

New research by LV= Broker reveals that 75% of SMEs improved or maintained their...

Brokers still being turned down by high street lenders

Developers are still turning to brokers for help having been turned down for funding...

Businesses see 30% rise in debt from late payment of bills

Lovetts has warned that the amount of debt a typical UK business is facing...

Bibby opens new Glasgow office

Invoice finance provider Bibby Financial Services (BFS) is opening a new office on St...

Ezbob expands product proposition

Short term commercial lender Ezbob has increased its maximum loan from £50,000 to £120,000...

Construction workloads grow despite labour shortages

Chartered surveyors have reported that private commercial and housing construction workloads rose in the...

Fleet Mortgages now open for business

Fleet Mortgages is now actively accepting business through its distributor partners and their affiliated...

P2P will redistribute the profits of buy-to-let

The mortgage industry is going to be 'revolutionised' by peer-to-peer finance, starting with secured...

Six join Bibby in Bristol

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed six new staff to its Bristol sales and...

Vantage Finance appoints head of sales

Vantage Finance has recruited Tim Bennett as its new head of sales. The packager says...

LandBay offers festive reward to customers

Peer-to-peer lending platform Landbay is offering £50 of John Lewis vouchers to any new...

Wesleyan passes major lending milestone

Wesleyan Bank has passed through the £500 million commercial lending barrier to lawyers just...

Colin Bell to run lending at OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank has appointed Colin Bell as its product and new business director. He now...

The first of a double hit on wealthier home owners?

Noel Meredith, executive director of United Trust Bank, comments on changes to the Stamp...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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