Commercial

Aldermore appoints regional sales manager for the East

Aldermore has announced that Andy Geagen has been appointed to the role of regional...

Crystal: InterBay return helps commercial recovery

The return of InterBay Commercial to the commercial finance market is a sign of...

Pilot scheme for local business finance unveiled

Funding Circle has launched the first Local Business Lending Partnership with Lancashire County Council,...

NACFB members offered Dragonfly exclusive

Dragonfly Property Finance has unveiled a new commercial bridging loan deal exclusively for members...

Why trust will make peer-to-business lending a success

Innovations are often met with a great deal of scepticism and rightly so. There...

Bibby claims new way of funding business

Bibby Financial Services has unveiled Flexidraft, which it has hailed as a "unique, new...

Late payment continuing to cripple SMEs

Aldermore has published research into the extent that late payments are continuing to restrict...

Positive Lending launches Xmas incentive

Positive Lending has unveiled its Christmas reward scheme. For any secured, bridging, commercial, development or...

Funding Circle builds intermediary team

Funding Circle has appointed James Lovett as business development manager. Lovett has joined from Close...

Asset & leasing market hit by funder withdrawal

ING Lease (UK) Ltd has decided to close its UK leasing business to new...

Commercial property fraudsters jailed

A trio of businessmen who conned financial institutions out of £20 million to expand...

Long road ahead for UK commercial real estate

Britain's commercial real estate market will not return to pre-crisis levels until 2023, having...

Connect sees rising demand for non-regulated proposition

Connect Mortgage Club has concluded that the increase in demand for its non-regulated offering...

SMEs remain confident about their prospects

Small and medium sized businesses are anticipating growth during the year ahead, as a...

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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