A £100k deal brokered by Bathgate Business Finance has helped bring a ten-year project to improve a rugby club’s player and community facilities to completion. The West Kirby-based finance specialist secured the funding for Eastham-based Anselmians RUFC after Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions delayed improvements to player and member facilities and the build of a high-end […]
New research by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in partnership with Metro Bank has revealed the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has set back competition in banking – with the share of personal current accounts now more concentrated than before the 2008 global financial crisis. The research also identified that government-backed lending schemes brought […]
Brightstar Financial has launched two new webinar dates in May, which will feature a packed programme of content to help brokers better serve the changing needs of their clients. The webinars, which are the first that Brightstar has hosted since the start of the Covid pandemic, follow the success of its education programme in 2019 […]
Europe’s leading open banking platform Tink, and payments technology provider Tribe, have entered a channel partnership for open banking technology. The partnership will enable Tribe to combine its issuer and acquirer services, with payment initiation services (PIS) and account information services (AIS) powered by Tink. Through Tribe’s technology platform, its UK customers now have seamless […]
ThinCats, leading alternative finance provider to mid-sized SMEs, has had a strong start to 2021 with over £100m in funding deployed to date this year, following a record year in 2020. With a view to further strengthening relationships with customers and other stakeholders, the company has employed Steve Ford as relationship director to manage the […]
More than a year after the start of the pandemic, global economic trends are uneven due to lingering uncertainties around the spread of COVID-19. The acceleration of the vaccination process, as well as its effectiveness, are key to an economic recovery. In this context, the prospects for a return to normalcy are both uneven and […]
Tide Invoice Assistant will allow small businesses to automatically chase and match invoices, insure against non-payment, set up Direct Debits and be notified when they are paid Small business owners currently waste 1.5 hours per day chasing invoices Invoices paid at least 4 days earlier with automatic chasing in place Tide, the UK’s leading business […]
The UK’s largest risk analytics consultancy, 4most, has become Yorkshire Building Society’s (YBS) preferred partner, supporting the development of its portfolio climate change risk assessment. The new partnership adds to the expanding efforts many lenders are making to manage and monitor the impact of climate change across their lending businesses. 4most is supporting YBS with […]
Darlington Building Society is the latest lender to join the growing lender panel of MCI Mortgage Club. The Society offers a wide range of mortgages from residential and buy-to-let through to complex including credit repair. There is no credit scoring as each application is underwritten on an individual basis. Darlington is keen to help first-time […]
David Duffy, chief executive officer: “Virgin Money had a strong first half. We doubled underlying profit compared to last year and returned to statutory profit. The quality of our loan book remained resilient in the period, and we’ve continued to support customers and look after our colleagues and communities, while safeguarding the bank. We’ve made […]
