Commercial

Crystal Mortgages appoints managing director

Crystal Mortgages has promoted Joe Breeden to the position of managing director. Breeden (pictured)...

How banks are supporting customers affected by the floods

High street banks have offered their support to those affected by the floods. RBS has...

SME owners resorting to plastic

Business bosses are putting their fund-raising plans on their personal credit cards for 2014,...

High street banks still averse to development finance

59% of brokers working in the development finance sector have said that the...

Strong levels of activity from small businesses

A quarterly index of 4,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK has shown...

SMEs shun banks for payday lenders

An Amigo Loans survey has found that UK microbusinesses have little confidence in borrowing...

Funding Circle to go on the road

Funding Circle, the online marketplace for business loans, has provided details of its first...

NACFB starts expo registration

Visitor registration have begun for the NACFB’s Commercial Finance Expo. The fifth commercial Expo is...

Aldermore appoints mortgage ops chief

Aldermore has appointed Jason Davies as operational director for its group mortgages division. He...

Keystone adjusts pricing with new product offering

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has launched two product ranges, aiming to cater more...

Omni Capital targets high end development projects

Omni Capital is offering a new development funding deal. The product is designed for...

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages hires pair of BDMs

Two Shawbrook Bank Business Development Managers (BDMs) have started work in the South...

SMEs expect business growth during 2014

Research conducted by chartered accountancy group Monahans in conjunction with the MHA, the UK...

BoE reports fall in business lending

Data out today from the Bank of England’s Money and Credit statistical release shows...
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COMMENT

Fixed rates

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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Fixed rates

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now....
Fraud

Brokers urged to strengthen sanctions checks

Mortgage and financial services firms are being urged to review their sanctions controls after...
fintech

OneDome named among Europe’s fastest-growing fintech firms

OneDome has been named one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe, the Middle...
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Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

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