Commercial

New deal to extend SME trade financing

Alibaba.com has announced a strategic partnerships with lenders ezbob and iwoca to help UK...

£10m together for Vantage Finance and Shawbrook

Vantage Finance has revealed that in February it wrote over £10m of loans with...

Zopa celebrates a decade in P2P lending

Peer-to-peer lender Zopa has marked the tenth anniversary of its service. The British business launched on...

Signature Private Finance expands distribution

Signature Private Finance has appointed Brilliant Solutions to its distribution panel. Nigel Robbins, Signature’s...

Asset finance new business up by 13% in January

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth in asset finance...

TFC Homeloans secures CCA permissions from regulator

TFC Homeloans has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

LMC funds 7 deals in 7 days for Finance 4 Business

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation has completed seven funding transactions in a week, worth £3m, for...

Asset finance brokers bullish about the year ahead

67% of brokers working in the asset finance sector expect to grow their businesses...

LMC supports this year’s Comic Relief

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation is organising events for support for Red Nose Day 2015. On...

Ultimate Finance expands into Scotland

Ultimate Finance Group, which provides cashflow solutions to SMEs, is opening its first office...

Landbay in transparency push

Peer to peer lending platform Landbay is to share publicly a range of new...

Vehicle hire firm benefits from Bibby funding arrangement

Vehicle hire firm Hexagon Leasing is to roll out a new vehicle sales division...

Dividends to return following LBG’s £1.8bn profit

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has posted pre-tax profits of £1.8bn. It provided £11.9 billion of...

Shawbrook promotes commercial pair

Shawbrook Bank has announced two promotions within its commercial mortgages team. Sarah Woolf, previously business...
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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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MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...
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Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...
Buy-to-let

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...
Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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