ESG

Investec provides development loan for 397-bed Stratford PBSA scheme

Investec Real Estate has provided a joint venture between Watkin Jones and Housing Growth...

Dudley BS achieves B Corp certification

Dudley Building Society has become the first regional UK building society to achieve B...

Geo-energy firm secures £500k funding

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

OSB’s employee engagement networks driving ESG efforts

OSB Group is celebrating its employee engagement network's first year anniversary which coincides with...

RAW Capital Partners appoints new CMO

RAW Capital Partners has appointed Peter Grange as its new chief marketing officer (CMO)...

SimplyBiz partners with Net Zero Now

SimplyBiz has announced a partnership with Net Zero Now to provide priority access for...

Atom bank promotes higher education access in the North East 

Atom bank, working in partnership with the County Durham Community Foundation, has launched the...

Bridging lender supports social enterprise’s outdoor kitchen

Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD), a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to improving local food systems,...

Advisers’ Sustainability Group reveals membership

The Advisers’ Sustainability Group (ASG), recently established by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to...

Pepper adds e-signatures for second charges

Pepper Money can now accept e-signatures on second charge mortgage offer documents, including the...

Legal & General Retail claims CMO report “signals a new era of workplace wellbeing”

Legal & General Retail has announced the publication of the inaugural edition in a...

Pepper Money appoints head of inclusion and engagement

Pepper Money has promoted Atlyn Forde to the role of head of inclusion and...

SMEs express real dilemma over Net Zero

Following the COP28 conference which ended last week, research from specialist business lending provider,...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

COMMENT

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

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Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

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