Commercial

Recognise Bank transforms its SME customer onboarding

Recognise Bank has partnered with TruNarrative to transform the onboarding process for its SME...

Rewards backs packaging supplier with £250k deal

A Leeds-based custom-made transit packaging supplier is on track with its growth plans after...

Aldermore provides £6.8m development finance loan

Aldermore has provided a £6.8m property development loan to Russell Armer Homes for its...

Redwood Bank appoints chief commercial officer

Julian Hynd has been named as the new chief commercial officer at Redwood Bank. Hynd...

Assetz Capital funds luxury home development in Aberdare

Assetz Capital have provided a £1.2m development loan to experienced developer CJC Estates to...

Allica Bank reaches major lending milestone

Allica Bank has now provided over £1 billion in loans to SMEs as across...

Syscap relaunches lending with HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) is relaunching HTB Syscap, the lender of short-term loans to...

Alternative Bridging provides development loan in under 14 days

Alternative Bridging Corporation has completed a development loan within two weeks. Alan Perry, a...

Reward Finance provides accountants with cash injection

An accountancy and business support firm is destined for growth after agreeing a funding...

Kuflink appoints head of origination

Bridging lender, Kuflink, has announced the appointment of Ranjit Narwal as head of origination. He...

Aldermore provides £16.5m development finance loan

Aldermore has provided a £16.5m development finance loan to Citu for the next phase...

New invoice finance firm appoints MD

One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has launched a new invoice financing company. The East Yorkshire-based...

Allica Bank reduces commercial mortgage rates

Allica Bank wants to take on the high-street banks on rate as well as...

UTB appoints business development director

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Adam Ware as a business development director in...

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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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