Commercial

Redwood Bank reduces lending rates and ups LTVs

Redwood Bank has unveiled improved interest rates starting from 3.49% (plus base rate) for secured...

Allica secures funding from British Business Investments

Allica Bank has secured £55m in additional funding for its activity in the SME...

Time Finance appoints East Midlands BDM

Time Finance has appointed Ewan Clarke as business development manager (BDM) in its invoice...

Paragon reports record profits

Paragon Banking Group has published its half-year results for the six months ended 31...

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services adds Hope Capital to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has unveiled a partnership with specialist bridging loan provider,...

Aspen saves development project after finance extension refused

Aspen Bridging has rescued a developer’s project from collapse after the previous lender refused...

Impact Specialist Finance added to Paradigm panel

Impact Specialist Finance has been added to the packager panel of Paradigm Mortgage Services,...

British Business Bank reveals new CEO

Louis Taylor has been appointed CEO of the British Business Bank. He will take up...

Bathgate expands board of directors

Bathgate Business Finance has expanded its board of directors with two new appointments from...

Three new hires for Catalyst

Catalyst has appointed two key account managers and a senior credit analyst. Joining the new...

Brightstar launches summer webinar programme

Brightstar Financial has introduced a series of free summer webinars designed to help brokers...

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints London sales director

Secure Trust Bank has appointed Vincent Walker as regional sales director in its London...

Allica Bank now live on Mambu

Allica Bank has gone live on cloud banking platform, Mambu. The platform supports Allica in...

Business owners outline benefits of invoice finance

Peace of mind, flexibility and supporting cashflow are the top three benefits of having...

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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