Commercial

Norton Broker Services unveils unsecured business finance

Norton Broker Services has launched an unsecured business finance proposition designed to help brokers...

HTB expands BTL product range and reduces rates

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has broadened its specialist buy-to-let and semi-commercial mortgage range and...

OSB Group makes key personnel changes

OSB Group has introduced a new senior sales structure, designed to support its intermediary...

Sharp rise in time and cost of planning permission for SMEs

Research commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) and United Trust Bank...

FIBA unveils partnership with HSBC

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced that HSBC has joined the...

Optimum Finance appoints risk and recoveries manager

Optimum Finance has appointed Steve Chapman to manage and lead its risk and recoveries...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

Paragon unveils new SME lending sales structure

Paragon Bank’s SME lending division has revealed a new structure for its sales function,...

Reward Finance Group expands London team

Reward Finance Group has bolstered its presence in London and the South East by...

Black & White Bridging joins ASTL

Black & White Bridging has become the latest member to join the Association of...

SMEs express real dilemma over Net Zero

Following the COP28 conference which ended last week, research from specialist business lending provider,...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

Clever Lending completes £1m semi-commercial refinance

Clever Lending has recently helped a business customer who needed to refinance a semi-commercial...

Together refinances MBS warehouse facility

Together Financial Services has announced the refinancing of its Highfield Asset Backed Securitisation 1...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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