Commercial

Asset finance market continues to grow

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show 10% growth in asset...

P2P lender expands down under

ThinCats announced the launch of joint ventures in Australia and Poland earlier this year...

Complete FS assisting MCI Club

Complete FS has been appointed as the specialist mortgage distribution channel for the...

SME funding boost “not enough”

SME alternative finance company Fleximize says the Autumn statement announcement to provide a near...

The Autumn Statement in full

Mr Speaker, Four years ago, in the first Autumn Statement of this Parliament, I presented...

Funding for Lending scheme extended

The Bank of England and the Treasury have announced a one-year extension to the...

NACFB promotes UK approach to rest of Europe

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) attended the EU Conference on SME...

Shawbrook makes broker introducer support hire

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Jack Simon as an outbound sales executive to its internal...

SME expect productivity improvements ext year

63% of UK SMEs predict they will increase productivity by an average of 9%...

Development finance brokers want speedy decisions

A survey carried out by United Trust Bank has found that speed of...

Home is where the office is for microbusinesses

84% of the UK's smallest businesses now use their home as a place of...

Bibby’s SME funding up by 6% over last quarter

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has increased funding provided to small and medium sized businesses...

Lenders need to take the regulatory lead, brokers say

66% of respondents to Shawbrook Bank’s Q3 Broker Barometer think lenders should be...

Fleet Mortgages reveals product range

Fleet Mortgages has announced its first product range covering individual, limited company and houses...

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...

Latest news

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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