Nucleus Commercial Finance today announces the appointment of Andy Bird as business development director of Property Finance. Andy brings with him 30 years’ industry experience and will be central to developing a new property proposition for Nucleus, to sit alongside the lender’s current offering. Andy joins from Santander where he was relationship director for real […]
Over four-in-five (86%) businesses are concerned about losing their top talent due to the impact of Covid-19, according to the latest international research from specialist recruiter Robert Half. The study of over 1,500 executives found that of those worried about their ability to retain key employees between now and the New Year, over a third […]
First 4 Bridging (F4B) has expanded its operations with the opening of a Manchester-based intermediary support centre. This is situated on King Street, Central Manchester which was formally the centre of the banking industry in the North West. The aim of this move is to better service the needs of F4B’s existing network of introducers […]
The UK housing market activity remained strong in September, as reported by the latest RICS UK Residential Survey. Buyer enquiries, agreed sales and new listings all remained strong over the month. Nevertheless, sales further ahead are expected to weaken amid the challenging macro-economic environment, evidenced by twelve-month expectations which have moved deeper into negative territory. […]
Published today, the British Business Bank’s UK Business Angels Market report 2020 reveals that angel investors across the UK are continuing to invest in early stage businesses and are optimistic about the future despite current economic uncertainty. Despite almost half of angels reporting a negative impact on their investment activity from Covid-19, overall the business […]
The equity release market showed the most change across all seven categories recorded by Knowledge Bank, with ‘Maximum Loan Amount’ being the only consistent search in the top five results. The disruption to the market suggests homeowners are wishing to release equity for a number of reasons and this is why we see so much […]
J A Ball Ltd, a family owned building contractor based in the East Midlands has entered administration. The company officially ceased trading on Friday 25th September with 18 employees being made redundant. Recognised as one of the region’s most efficient turn-key contractors, the Leicestershire based company, worked directly with private developers, public sector organisations and […]
Motivating staff and maintaining a happy workforce is now a top priority for more than one in two small business owners (55%) – rising to 60% among younger bosses (those aged under 35) – according to new research from Hitachi Capital Business Finance. Hitachi Capital’s new survey comes at a time of growing concerns regarding […]
An innovative Scottish software business that provides a comprehensive booking platform for the leisure travel sector has announced plans to launch a suite of data technology products designed to help travel agents and tour operators to gain vital insight into which parts of the sector are seeing the fastest and most sustained recovery in order […]
Today, Primer — the UK-founded fintech company that helps merchants seamlessly consolidate their payments stack and easily support future payment methods — launches with its unified payments API and checkout. Providing an open payment infrastructure to merchants through a single integration, Primer manages the front-end checkout process and backend consolidation of payments services — supercharging […]
