UK business founders and workers are more optimistic about their prospects for 2023 than last year, and many are now looking at opportunities to grow or start their business, according to a new study by Oracle NetSuite. The study of more than 2,100 UK business founders and workers revealed that founders plan to counter the tough […]
As property investors struggle with buy-to-let interest rates and home buyers are priced out, Allbricks is here to disrupt the market by unitising investment in UK residential property. Through its revolutionary crowdfunding platform, Allbricks enables buyers and investors to co-invest in homes by breaking down the investment into units called ‘bricks’. The buyer purchases as […]
Barratt Developments, one of the UK’s largest housebuilders, has released half year results to 31 December 2022: Barratt delivered 6.9% growth in total home completions to 8,626 with adjusted profit before tax up 15.9% at £521.5m. Forward sales as at 29 January 2023 were 10,854 homes (30 January 2022: 15,736) at a value of £2,665.0m. The full […]
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 […]
Irwin Mitchell is continuing to invest and build strength in depth within its transactional teams with the recruitment of five senior tax lawyers including a four-strong team from Knights. The latest move by Irwin Mitchell adds two partners and three senior associates to the firm’s corporate & finance team which is headed up by Simon […]
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 […]
