Commercial

London Credit to cut rates this week

Short-term lender, London Credit, is to introduce new product rates on Friday, 8 November. It...

Recognise secures new investment as chair and CEO step down

Recognise Bank has secured £25m in new capital from its majority shareholder, bringing the...

SPF secures £26.8m development loan

Broker SPF Private Clients (SPF) has arranged a £26.8m development loan on the 444-acre...

eCapital Commercial Finance acquires Optimum SME Finance

Optimum SME Finance, a specialist invoice financier, has been acquired by eCapital Commercial Finance. Ant...

Assetz Capital unveils 9.35% dev finance rate

Assetz Capital has announced the launch of a new 9.35% development finance rate, available...

Time Finance expands business development team with new hire

Time Finance has welcomed Sion Street as a business development manager in its invoice...

Bad debt rise hitting small businesses hard

The value of bad debt suffered by small businesses has risen by 127%, according...

Atom bank extends commercial mortgage discount

Atom bank has extended the rate discount available on its range of large commercial...

The Brightstar Group launches Specialist Lending Expo

The Brightstar Group has announced The Specialist Lending Expo, which it claims will assemble...

Reward Funding appoints head of treasury

SME finance provider, Reward Funding, has appointed Tom Dundas to help establish a new...

Fiduciam expands funding with additional £100m facility

Fiduciam has secured £100 million of new funding to be deployed over the next...

Time Finance appoints invoice finance BDM

Time Finance has welcomed Naomi Campion as a business development manager in its invoice...

Bibby Financial Services appoints BDM for Wales

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Helena Warne as its business development manager for...

Business acquisitions hampered by funding issues

One-third of commercial finance brokers recently surveyed are finding it hard to source lenders...

COMMENT

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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Leek BS launches five-year buy-to-let fixed rate

Leek Building Society has added a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage to its intermediary...

LendInvest unveils 10bps buy-to-let rate cuts

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products by...

Quantum Mortgages cuts rates and launches remortgage cashback

Quantum Mortgages has launched a cashback product for remortgages and reduced rates across its...

Paragon cuts buy-to-let rates by 20bps

Paragon Bank has reduced rates by 20 basis points (bps) across its buy-to-let mortgage...

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