Commercial

Cash flow is the leading challenge for SME business owners

Millbrook Business Finance has published the results of its latest survey of SME business...

Rising costs causing SMEs to lose productivity

SMEs are sacrificing growth opportunities as they deal with escalating costs and underwhelming productivity....

MFS to pilot commercial & semi-commercial buy-to-let deals

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has launched a pilot for a new range of semi-commercial...

Allica Bank supports care home operator’s growth plans

A commercial mortgage from Allica Bank has enabled Ashley Care Group to purchase the...

Time Finance appoints relationship executive

Time Finance has welcomed Karen Blanchard to its invoice finance team as a relationship...

Suros Capital reports major rise in business enquiries

Suros Capital has reported a 40% rise in enquiries this year about business purposes...

Growth opportunities for Scottish hospitality sector

Opportunities in the hospitality sector in Scotland still remain for businesses to expand and...

Optimum Finance provides facility to Chinese pancake business

Ming Foods, a food production business that has made around two billion Chinese pancakes...

Reward Finance Group secures increased funding facility

Reward Finance Group has secured an additional £50m to its credit line from the...

Homeworking still driving property development decisions

New research from Shawbrook has found that homeworking is continuing to drive development decisions...

Assetz Capital supports Bradford PBSA development

Assetz Capital is providing a development facility to deliver a 169-unit PBSA scheme in...

Paragon backs Arundel Gate new build development

Arundel Gate Finance has secured £30m of funding from Paragon Bank, including a £12...

Investec provides £80m development loan for Suffolk distribution centre

Investec Real Estate has provided Norton Group with an £80 million financing package to...

Allica Bank funds nursery & pre-school in Luton

Allica Bank has provided a £450,000 commercial mortgage to enable Kinder City nursery &...

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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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