SME finance

British Business Bank launches Growth Guarantee Scheme

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

Time Finance unveils new vendor finance team member 

Time Finance has appointed Jamie Robinson as an area sales manager in its vendor...

Time Finance hires regional sales manager for vendor finance

Time Finance has appointed Rowan Dearden as regional sales manager in its vendor finance...

Business confidence leading cause of SME borrowing demand

Atom bank's ‘SME Pulse’ survey for Q2 2024 has revealed that improving confidence among...

SME owners uses Ferrari for immediate short-term loan

Suros Capital has recently funded an 'immediate' short-term loan of £235,000 for the client...

Reparo Finance unveils revolving credit facility

Specialist commercial finance provider Reparo Finance has launched a new revolving credit facility to...

Atom bank passes £1bn commercial completion mark

Atom bank has reached the milestone of £1 billion in commercial mortgage completions. The lender...

SME finance provider launches commercial broker survey

Asset Advantage, a provider of business finance for SMEs, has launched a survey to...

Time Finance appoints head of business improvement

Time Finance has appointed Fozia Riaz as its head of business improvement. The role is...

Civil Rail Solutions secures £3m BFS funding

Civil Rail Solutions Limited (CRS), a labour supplier for the rail and construction industries,...

Time Finance bolsters business development team

Time Finance has welcomed Donna Lambert as a business development manager (BDM) in its...

Bathgate supports pub group’s expansion

Bathgate Business Finance has supported the expansion of a local pub group through a...

Time Finance hires invoice finance relationship manager

Time Finance has appointed Georgina Harrison as relationship manager in its invoice finance team. Harrison...

Rise in business demand for bridging finance

Bridging Trends contributors have reported £196.2 million in bridging loan transactions during the first...

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Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

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Final call for views on FCA mortgage reforms

The mortgage industry has until tomorrow to respond to Financial Conduct Authority proposals intended...

One in five borrow to fund private healthcare

Almost one in five people who recently accessed private healthcare used a credit card...

Digital mortgage ID checks unaffected by government U-turn

Digital identity verification used by mortgage lenders, brokers and other regulated firms is unaffected...

Family BS launches broker Mortgage Hub

Family Building Society has launched an online mortgage application platform designed to give brokers...

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