Commercial

Shawbrook expands commercial sales team

Shawbrook Bank has recruited Rob Holt as a junior sales executive to its commercial...

New member for the ASTL

Signature Private Finance has become the ASTL’s latest member. The firm offers a range of...

Aldermore appoints regional sales manager for West Yorkshire

Aldermore has added to its invoice Finance sales team with the appointment of...

New head of sales for Shawbrook

Shawbrook Bank has promoted Emma Cox to the position of head of sales...

Montello continues to grow loan book

Montello Finance has said it is lending over £250m a year. The London firm claims...

NACFB Compliance Services launches

  The NACFB has today launched NACFB Compliance Services to its 1200 member brokers.   The...

UTB offers ‘best of British’ competition

Brokers visiting United Trust Bank’s stand at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo will have...

Partnership unveiled between Funding Circle and Santander UK

Funding Circle and Santander UK have launched the first partnership between a UK bank...

SCF expands commercial and bridging team

Specialist Commercial Finance (SCF) has announced the appointment of Wes Friedel to its commercial...

New Aldermore roles for Lankey and Haresnape

Aldermore has made two changes to its senior leadership team in its mortgages division. Commercial...

Ezbob soft launch “exceeds expectations”

Ezbob, the online short term commercial SME lender, approved 350 new loans last month...

Shawbrook appoints BDE for the South East

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has recruited Scott Apps as its new business development...

New website for Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has launched its new website band has also reached the milestone of...

InterBay adds refurb deal to range

InterBay Commercial has unveiled a 'term refurb' loan product to its key partners. Details are...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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...

Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

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

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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