SME finance

Atom bank provides £1.5m loan to manufacturing and welding firm

Atom bank has provided a £1.5m loan to Cube Metals Ltd, a steel fabricator...

Energy consultancy secures six figure funding boost from Time Finance

Norwich-based energy consultancy, Indigo Swan, has secured a six figure invoice finance facility with...

Recognise Bank finances family owned property investment firm

SME specialist Recognise Bank has agreed a £416,000 fixed rate loan solution for a...

Cynergy Business Finance surpasses £200m in asset-based lending

Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), the asset-based lending (ABL) arm of Cynergy Bank, has surpassed...

Over three-quarters of SMEs worry about cashflow due to late payments

Latest data from Time Finance has uncovered the true impact of late payments for...

London brewer benefits from invoice finance facility

A tailored invoice finance facility from Optimum Finance is helping a London-based craft brewery...

41% of SMEs worry about financial difficulties in a year’s time

41% of UK SMEs believe their business may be in financial difficulties in a...

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints regional MD

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has bolstered its management team with the appointment of...

Allica Bank increases credit appetite

Allica Bank has made significant changes to its commercial mortgage credit appetite with cuts...

SMEs’ bad debt levels up 61%

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has published research which it says shows the extent to...

Reward boosts London and South East team

Reward Finance Group has appointed Tom Annetts as its new relationship manager, as it...

One Stop Business Finance reaches significant milestone

York-based alternative funding provider, One Stop Business Finance Group, has exceeded £20m for the...

Record profits for Skipton Business Finance

Skipton Business Finance, part of the Skipton Building Society group, has reported a record...

Strong growth for challenger and specialist banks in 2022

The British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2022/23 report has revealed that £35.5bn...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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