SME finance

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...

Reward Finance provides £530k facility for AI development

Law365, a Tunbridge-Wells law firm specialising in commercial and employment law primarily within technology...

Time Finance launches graduate recruitment programme

Time Finance has announced the launch of a new 12-month Fast Track Graduate Recruitment...

LHV Bank doubles size of loan book

LHV Bank's UK lending portfolio now totals £140 million. At the end of 2023, the...

Redwood Bank makes BDM promotion

Redwood Bank has promoted Sam Taylor to the role of business development manager (BDM)...

Geo-energy firm secures £500k funding

A Leeds-based firm dedicated to locating subsurface energy and mineral resources to reduce the...

DF Capital secures further British Business Bank funding

The British Business Bank has agreed a second portfolio increase of £100m to specialist...

British Business Bank launches Growth Guarantee Scheme

Details have been published about the successor to the Recovery Loan Scheme, the Growth...
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COMMENT

Analysis

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 20

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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Countrywide Surveying Services to bring industry leaders together for Future Insight Forum

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