Commercial

Shawbrook wins brace of NACFB gongs

Shawbrook Bank won two awards at the NACFB Gala Dinner last night. It had received...

Technology forcing small businesses to work harder

Nearly half of 'microbusinesses' and sole traders in the UK believe that they now...

SME bosses not thinking of protection

Under half of British small business owners regularly review their income protection whilst 17%...

P2P lender targets £20m in lending

Rebuildingsociety.com has passed the £1 million borrowing mark following a recent rise in interest...

Commercial lending manager retires from Aldermore

Martin Thurlby, senior commercial lending manager, has announced his retirement from Aldermore after over...

Lenders reopening doors to SMEs in Northern Ireland

Small businesses in Northern Ireland can expect the number of active lenders to double...

Funding Circle makes key property finance hire

Funding Circle has signalled its intent to move into the property finance space, with...

New incentives from InterBay Commercial

InterBay Commercial completed more loans than ever before last month and with some of...

Dragonfly unveils commercial term loan deal

Dragonfly Property Finance has launched a new commercial term loan aimed at property investors. The...

Blemain introduces its lowest loan rate

Blemain Finance has made changes across a range of its products, including the launch...

Shawbrook launches new initiative for existing commercial mortgage clients

Shawbrook Bank has unveiled a new product feature for existing clients on all new...

New non-execs for United Trust Bank

Tracy Blackwell and Stephen Lockley have joined the board of United Trust Bank as...

2013 short-term SME secured loans reach quarter of a billion mark

In the first nine months of 2013, short-term secured loans for small and medium...

Complete FS becomes Shawbrook strategic partner

Complete FS has been chosen by Shawbrook Bank to be part of its Strategic...

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...

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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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