Hope Capital has announced it is launching its short-term finance proposition in Scotland. The specialist lender has launched a diverse range of products in recent months for property in England and Wales and having tracked the Scottish property market for some time, is expanding its offering to brokers and their clients who have property in […]
New research from Crown Agents Bank has found that there is a strong appetite from UK companies to step up their presence in Africa, with 69% of those surveyed planning to expand their footprint in the continent following Brexit. The bank, which is a UK regulated provider of wholesale FX and cross-border payment services, asked […]
United Trust Bank (UTB) and proptech provider Aprao have announced a collaborative relationship to promote the benefits of digital solutions in the development finance sector. As a leading specialist bank providing funding to SME housebuilders and developers, UTB receives high volumes of enquiries and appraisals submitted in a wide variety of formats. Aprao is an […]
A Cash Against Documents transaction orchestrated by Saudi-based ITFC was successfully completed between SOFITEX and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), using an electronic bill of lading issued by the CMA AGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, through Bolero’s digital trade finance platform for the first time. The transaction concerned a cotton shipment originating […]
Pharmacy finance specialist, Christie Finance, has recently supported Mrs Alison Hair, current pharmacist at Parkhead Health Centre Pharmacy, Glasgow, to acquire the remaining 76% shareholding in the business in order to have complete ownership. Parkhead Health Centre Pharmacy is based in the East End of Glasgow and provides a wide range of NHS services to […]
Nexus Global reveals that Business confidence in the UK has risen by 9.7% since last year (May 2020). UK businesses are most assured about the overall health of their business, yet unsurprisingly least assured about the overall health of the country’s economy. Sectors hardest hit by the pandemic are the least confident including travel, creative […]
GTMaritime is proud to announce that it has transitioned its business to an Employee Owned Trust (EOT), in a deal securing the future of a true shipping technology innovator. The move to an EOT is an exciting development which is set to incentivise employees under the guidance of the management team responsible for establishing GTMaritime […]
Cashflow is the key motivation for SMEs applying for finance, according to an exclusive index of UK brokers by Europe’s leading small business lender iwoca. iwoca’s new SME Expert Index, which covers a four-week period in January, reveals that 41% of brokers said the most requested reason for applying for unsecured finance was to ‘manage […]
New-to-market payment solutions provider Monavate has secured seed funding of £5m from a major US institutional investor, signalling one of the largest seed funding rounds for a UK fintech in the last 12 months. Monavate provides a technology-enabled, compliance and card scheme sponsorship platform, that simplifies the way companies create, manage and grow financial products. […]
DF Capital has worked with Zero Motorcycles for the past two years and in that time has helped the business grow its dealer base, increasing its visibility in the UK. Zero Motorcycles is a manufacturer of high-performance electric motorcycles, founded in in California in 2006. Combining the best aspects of a traditional motorcycle with today’s […]
