Commercial

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints managing director

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance (STB CF), the asset-based lending (ABL) arm of Secure...

Pivotal Growth snaps up Watts Commercial Finance for undisclosed sum

Pivotal Growth, the joint venture between LSL Property Services and Pollen Street Capital, has...

Atom bank provides £6m to refinance hotel

Atom bank has completed a large commercial mortgage refinance for a chain of hotels...

NACFB appoints broker pair as NEDs

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has appointed two broker members to...

Reward Funding provides £315k boost to NE developers

A pair of entrepreneurs are launching a new property development business following £315,000 finance...

HTB finances £3.93m pre-let commercial development

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has funded a £3.93 million development finance loan to finance...

Allica Bank reaches lending and deposit milestones

Allica Bank has passed £3 billion in lending and £4 billion in deposits. The SME...

Atom bank completes fourth case with care home provider

Atom bank has continued its relationship with an existing care home provider customer, delivering...

Sirius Finance provides £8m revolving credit facility

Sirius Finance has completed an £8m revolving credit facility to fund the refinancing of...

Fiducia Commercial Network appoints Chambers

Fiducia Commercial Network has appointed Norman Chambers as its new executive relationship director. Chambers (pictured)...

Private equity firm takes minority stake in United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed that an agreement has been reached between its...

Bibby Financial Services appoints HR director

SME funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Hannah Bloxham as its new HR...

Q&A: Jaxon Stevens, ASG Finance

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Jaxon Stevens, relationship director at ASG Finance. Mortgage Soup...

The Cumberland adds new sectors to commercial offering

The Cumberland Building Society has expanded its commercial offering to cater to a range...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Skipton loses former Connells chief’s discrimination case

Skipton Group Holdings and Connells have lost an employment tribunal case brought by former...

IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

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