SME finance

Secure Trust Bank strengthens commercial finance leadership with COO appointment

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has promoted Richard Foote to the role of chief...

Manchester security firm secures future growth with Time Finance ABL facility

Red Security, a Manchester-based CCTV and security provider, has secured a £500,000 asset-based lending...

GB Bank hits £2bn balance sheet milestone

GB Bank has passed a major financial milestone, with its balance sheet surpassing £2...

Allica Bank nearly doubles profits

Allica Bank has reported a near doubling of annual profits to £29.9 million in...

Rcapital acquires Gap Personnel in £23.5m carve-out deal backed by STB CF

Gap Personnel, one of the UK’s largest independent recruitment agencies, has been acquired by...

British Business Bank receives £500m boost to back SMEs hit by tariff changes

The British Business Bank’s Growth Guarantee Scheme has been granted an additional £500m in...

Time Finance holds charity football tournament

Time Finance invited its peers in the SME finance industry peers as well as...

Redwood Bank appoints CFO to help shape next phase of growth

Redwood Bank has announced the appointment of Sergio Cruz as its new chief financial...

Asset Advantage appoints sales director to drive growth and broker engagement

Asset Advantage has appointed Gary Thompson as its new sales director to drive its...

NACFB appoints PR and marketing partner

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has announced the addition of PR...

Profits up at Skipton Business Finance

Skipton Business Finance (SBF) has posted a 13% rise in pre-tax profits to £10.8...

Time Finance recognised as a ‘Very Good Organisation’

Time Finance has been recognised as one of the UK’s best companies to work...

Marine mortgage provider secures £30m facility to support expansion

Promarine Finance, a specialist provider of marine mortgages, has secured a £30 million revolving...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Bellway renews call for Help to Buy as housing recovery stalls

Housebuilder Bellway says the UK housing market recovery has “stalled” over summer, renewing its...

34 organisations back plan to accelerate green mortgage lending

Decarbonising Britain’s homes is one of the most complex and expensive challenges of the...

The West Brom raises income multiples to help buyers with smaller deposits

West Brom Building Society has eased its mortgage lending rules in a bid to...

Brokers warn of rising underinsurance as premiums outpace protection

A growing number of brokers fear that more households are falling into underinsurance as...