Commercial

Shawbrook commercial legal network launches

A network of law firms available to act for borrowers has been set...

Important hire for Bibby

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed former Lloyds Commercial Finance Client and Collateral Management...

Lloyds lent £342m under Help to Buy

Lloyds Banking Group has reported underlying profit increased 22% to £1.8 billion in the...

“Blistering” start to year for Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has reported commercial finance application numbers between January to March higher than...

Does development finance popularity show market is overheating?

In the past month or so I’ve seen an increasing amount written in the...

Rise in company liquidations

Insolvency Service data out today show that company liquidations in England and Wales in...

Strong rise in mortgage lending for Santander UK

Santander UK has reported gross residential mortgage lending of £5.7bn for the first quarter...

First quarter surge in SME activity

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has recorded the highest level of first quarter output among...

Shawbrook appoints new Strategic Partner

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Commercial Mortgage Desk (CMD) to its Strategic Partner programme. With...

No major turnaround for SME lending

The annual rate of growth in the stock of lending to UK businesses remained...

LV= Broker unveils SME insurance product

LV= Broker is offering a new retail insurance product, which provides cover for a...

Shawbrook makes commercial mortgage appointment

Matthew Woods has been appointed as junior sales executive in Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgage...

New hire for Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has appointed Philip Charlwood to the newly created position of commercial completions...

Positive Commercial Finance rewarded by Funding Circle

Positive Commercial Finance has picked up an award from Funding Circle for its efforts...

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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