Commercial

Bibby Financial Services appoints head of sales for corporate North

SME financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Daniel Williams as head of sales...

Brilliant Solutions removes upfront bridging and commercial fees

Brilliant Solutions has revised its bridging and commercial offering to ensure clients pay no...

Time Finance appoints head of relationship management

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Kevin Howard to head of relationship management...

HTB Structured Asset Finance completes £3m deal

HTB Structured Asset Finance has completed a £3m asset refinance to assist a container...

Redwood Bank makes BDM hire

Redwood Bank has appointed a new business development manager (BDM). Rob Thompson will be...

One Stop Business Finance secures Shawbrook facility boost

Specialist lender, One Stop Business Finance, has secured an extension of up to £4...

23% growth in Shawbrook loan book

Shawbrook Group has issued its trading update for the three months ended 30 September...

Catalyst appoints intermediary relationship manager

Catalyst has appointed Ciaran Courtney as a new intermediary relationship manager. Courtney joins the specialist...

HH Business Finance reports over 200% growth

HH Business Finance (HHBF) has reported strong growth in 2022 through its range of...

Assetz Capital appoints development specialist

Assetz Capital has appointed Sinead Moynihan as relationship director. In her new role, Moynihan...

Castle Trust Bank joins NACFB

Castle Trust Bank has joined the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) as...

HTB appoints head of portfolio management

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of John Archbold as head of...

Time Finance opens new office in Reading

Time Finance has unveiled its new office in Reading in a move to bolster...

Reward makes key hires in the Midlands and South East

Reward Finance Group has supported its growth plans in the Midlands, London and the...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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