SME finance

Budget stalling SME’s borrowing plans

Atom bank has found that SMEs' appetite for external funding is slowing down due...

Sirius Finance hires pair of senior associates

Sirius Finance has announced the recruitment of two new senior associates. Richard Crook has joined...

LHV Bank completes key refinancing deals

LHV Bank has facilitated two major refinancing deals introduced by Graham Chaston, managing director...

FOLK2FOLK appoints head of business development

FOLK2FOLK has announced Carlos Howard as its new head of business development. Howard (pictured) has over...

Commercial brokers report rising demand for complex loan solutions

Commercial finance brokers are seeing a significant rise in client requests to support more...

Assetz Capital structures £9.9m Leicester hotel deal with Atom bank

Assetz Capital has structured a funding package of £9.95m facility for VOCO Leicester Hotel...

New branding and strategic direction for Reward Funding

Reward Funding has refreshed its brand identity and unveiled a new strategic direction, with...

Q&A: Conor McDermott, LHV Bank

BestAdvice fires the questions at Conor McDermott, director of SME Lending at LHV Bank. BestAdvice...

LHV Bank makes lending director appointments

LHV Bank has appointed three new lending directors to its lending team. The appointments are...

Commercial brokers report increased demand for business loans

31% of commercial finance brokers have seen a growing shift among clients towards business...

Time Finance makes changes to senior management roles

Time Finance has announced changes to the roles of three of its senior management...

Late payments to SMEs on the rise

More that 3.6 million (72%) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have some form of...

Cumberland BS becomes NACFB patron

The Cumberland Building Society has become a patron of the National Association of Commercial...

LHV Bank provides £3.6m commercial investment loan

LHV Bank has recently completed a £3.6 million commercial investment loan to help the...

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MorganAsh upgrades MARS to better reflect multiple customer vulnerabilities

MorganAsh has enhanced its MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS), introducing an upgrade to its algorithms...

Half of UK adults face ‘crisis of certainty’ as cost pressures mount

Half of UK adults feel less certain about their financial future than two years...

Reward Funding raises £21,000 for Rainbow Trust charity

Reward Funding has raised £21,000 for the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity after a year-long...

Target Group appoints Jennifer Read as head of risk

Target Group has appointed Jennifer Read as its new head of risk, strengthening its...