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SMEs count cost of paying off loans early

Over 100,000 UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have been charged for clearing bank...

Bumper month for secured loans

Secured lending figures in January increased by £6,500,000 (16%) on December 2013 and £14,600,000...

Nationwide extends personal loan offer

Nationwide Building Society is extending its reduced personal loan rate of 4.9% APR Representative...

Paragon Bank given go-ahead by regulator

Paragon Bank has been granted a banking licence by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). The...

Borro lends against Oscar statuette

Personal asset lender borro has revealed that it has recently taken possession of an...

Liberis sets up £1m funding for flooded businesses

Business cash advance provider Liberis has ringfenced £1m ‘immediate access’ funding for micro and...

Year-on-year rise in second charge repossessions

Second charge mortgage repossessions fell in the final quarter of 2013 by 29.7% to...

SML targets brokers in Northern Ireland

Smart Money Loans (SML), which already has offices in England and Scotland, has announced...

CBFL wants more transparency in STL market

Capital Bridging Finance Limited (CBFL) has introduced a video recording process for all its...

Promise Solutions expands panel

Firmus Secured Loans has become the latest lender to join Promise Solutions’ secured loan...

SMEs shun banks for payday lenders

An Amigo Loans survey has found that UK microbusinesses have little confidence in borrowing...

Masthaven unveils purchase buy-to-let deal

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has launched a new product aimed at helping customers gain...

Funding Circle to go on the road

Funding Circle, the online marketplace for business loans, has provided details of its first...

Masthaven Secured Loans enhances broker support

Masthaven Secured Loans has made further improvements to its broker support service. The upgrades have...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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London exodus slows as leavers stay closer to the capital

The pandemic-era rush out of London is firmly in retreat with new figures showing...

Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...

Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

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