GoCardless, a global leader in direct bank payments, has launched GoCardless Embed, a new integration for third party payment providers to access its global bank payment network and reap the benefits of bank-to-bank payments. GoCardless Embed, which comes white labelled as standard, allows payment providers to integrate GoCardless’ global bank payment network straight into their […]
Specialist recruitment agency, PS Capital, has received a flexible £1.5m asset-based lending facility from Cynergy Business Finance to support both its short and long-term growth strategy for the years ahead. Headquartered in Glasgow, PS Capital is a recruitment agency that specialises in the energy sector, providing recruitment solutions for some of the biggest international, offshore […]
Oxbury Bank – the UK’s only dedicated agtech bank – has announced a major growth milestone by breaking even in December 2022 after rapid growth during the past year. Growth has come from long-term lending, delivered via its expert team of on-farm relationship managers as well as working capital delivered via principal distributors across the […]
Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has made significant enhancements to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage offering, with significantly reduced fixed rates and simplified loan size bandings. Five-year fixed rates have been reduced by up to 130 basis points (starting from 5.99%), with the Bank’s new two-year fixed rates starting from 5.69%. In addition, the Bank has simplified […]
Seven out of 10 buy-to-let landlords do not intend to sell any of their properties in the next 12 months, latest data from the Landbay quarterly survey has revealed. The strongest sentiment came from those with smaller portfolios of between one and three (78%) and four and 10 properties (76%). However, 69% of landlords with […]
iwoca is today announcing the integration of its B2B payment solution iwocaPay with Quickbooks’ leading accounting software package – this makes it the first invoice checkout integration with a BNPL option for businesses that integrate with QuickBooks. Quickbooks supports UK businesses with their accounting needs via a cloud-first approach that allows them to run their […]
According to Savills, the international real estate advisor, availability of core opportunities in Central London has declined almost 60% since its peak in Q1 2022. Conversely, the amount of core plus opportunities has increased significantly and now accounts for over 50% of available stock. Savills figures show investment turnover in Central London in 2022 totalled […]
Consumer card spending grew 9.7 % year-on-year in January – higher than in December (4.4 %) and slightly above the 9.2 % rise in consumer price inflation – as new year sales, blockbuster film releases and a surge in holiday bookings led to strong performances across retail, entertainment, and travel. However, growth rates were also […]
Difficult trading conditions continued into the new year for ecommerce, where total market online retail revenue growth experienced a -2.2% YoY decline, presenting negative-on-negative growth against the huge, lockdown-affected rate of -22.5% in January 2022. That’s according to the latest IMRG Online Retail Index, which tracks online sales for 200 retailers. It also saw a […]
The RICS Valuation Conference in London on the 21 February will focus on how the industry is responding to ESG and asset impairment. One of the sessions will be led by Tim Chapman, managing director at Hickman Shearer who will be facilitating a session within the machinery and businessassets breakout stream centred around the impact […]
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Edition 304 – December/January 2023
Those usual suspects By Business Money group editor Robert Lefroy TCA: Two ye...
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