Commercial

UTB reveals ‘Best of British’ broker winner

United Trust Bank has announced the winner of its 2014 ‘Best of British’ promotion....

Bibby appoints head of sales

Specialist funder Bibby Financial Services has appointed Robin Crouch as its head of sales...

Shawbrook plans stock market flotation

Shawbrook Group plc has this morning announced its intention to float on the London...

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...

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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