Commercial

Aldermore hires regional sales director

Aldermore has appointed Peter Flynn as regional sales director of its invoice finance business. Flynn...

Y3S launches Loans Insider magazine

Y3S Group has unveiled a new industry magazine for the UK’s financial intermediaries, called...

Don’t ignore commercial enquiries, says Brightstar

Brightstar Financial is urging brokers to reconsider turning away commercial mortgage enquiries, in the...

Retail disappointment over Budget

Cluttons has expressed its disappointment that the Budget announcement did not address the issue...

Aldermore expands specialist property development team

Aldermore has promoted Andy Sears to the role of property development manager. The specialist team...

Positive Lending and UTB behind Silverstone F1 competition

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending and United Trust Bank are offering the...

3mc offers exclusive investment property funding

Mortgage distributor 3mc has teamed up with Aldermore to offer more investment property funding...

N&P grows commercial lending team

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society has hired two new commercial lending managers. This comes as...

Micro-businesses being shunned by traditional finance sources

Only 20% of micro-businesses were funded through a bank loan and one in six...

Shawbrook hires pair of commercial BDMs

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial lending business has appointed Richard Angell and Ian Hoggart as business...

Singers renamed Shawbrook Asset Finance

Shawbrook Bank has rebranded Singers, the asset finance group it acquired in March 2012....

Funding Circle grows intermediary team

Peer-to-peer business lender Funding Circle is expanding its intermediary development team with the appointments...

Aldermore claims UK first with new ratings service

Aldermore is now offering a new online customer interactive service that provides its customers...

Ex-Tuita new business head joins Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has appointed Andy Jacovou as new business consultant. He will be working for...

COMMENT

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...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 20

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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UK risks two-tier energy transition without home investment

The UK risks creating a "two-tier" energy transition unless cleaner and smarter technologies are...

MSB solicitor recognised with Future Leader award at British LGBT Awards

MSB Solicitors is marking Pride Month after one of its solicitors was named Future...

The Yorkshire appoints two non-executive directors

Yorkshire Building Society has appointed Barry O’Dwyer and Philippa Brown as independent non-executive directors. The...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a broad selection of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

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