The cost of living has risen over the past few years, with bills and other expenses experiencing astronomical growth as revenue levels remain stagnant. Finding effective ways of financing various emergencies has become almost impossible to accomplish. Short term loans currently represent the best avenue one has of getting immediate funding when caught in dire […]
Leading digital bank challenger Cashplus has been granted a full UK bank licence by the Prudential Regulation Authority with immediate effect. As a bank, Cashplus can use part of its £500m of customer deposits for lending and aims to provide £1bn of credit to UK small businesses to support the UK’s post-Covid-19 recovery. The firm, […]
Bridge Development Partners, LLC (“BRIDGE”), a privately-owned development and acquisition firm of Class A industrial properties, today announced that it completed over $2.2bn in transactions during 2020. BRIDGE acquired 10 properties totaling approximately 6.5 million square feet, valued at over $1.4bn across BRIDGE’s five regional offices located in Chicago, Miami, New Jersey/New York, Los Angeles/San […]
Zephyr Homeloans, the specialist buy-to-let (BTL) lender owned by Computershare, has reduced initial rates and introduced a 1% product fee option across its entire range. Zephyr’s new rates start at 3.04% for a two-year, fixed-rate, standard property buy-to-let mortgage and 3.39% for a standard, five-year, fixed-rate loan for individuals and limited companies. The lender’s rates […]
Research launched today by City & Guilds Group and global labour market trends experts Burning Glass Technologies reveals that at a time of rising unemployment a third of Britons (34%) want to change careers. But almost two thirds (65%) of Britain’s working population expect the job market to be worse in 2021 than it was in 2020, and worryingly, only […]
NatWest has today announced the launch of a new grant finder service in conjunction with Swoop, which will allow UK businesses to search for grants to help their business deal with the ongoing impacts of the CO]ovid-19 pandemic. The bank wants to provide SMEs with greater access to third party funding which is not in […]
New research from Barclays reveals 2020 as the highest year on record for scams, as the value of fraudulent activity increased more than 66% during the months of July to December. The stark increase was driven by high-value and complex scams, with fraudsters cashing in on the nation’s uncertainty during the pandemic. The highest value […]
Silliest, most senseless, nastiest, moodiest, most cliched, fastest, most focussed, sportiest, costliest, coolest, hottest, most wilful and most fun are just some of the descriptive terms applied by Iain Robertson to BMW’s latest big saloon model. In a gender-neutral new world of political correctness gone loopy, it is so rewarding to herald the arrival of […]
Specialised chemical manufacturer, FIS Chemicals has secured a £1.7m asset based lending facility from Independent Growth Finance (IGF). The funds raised through invoice discounting and a property loan, were used to support an MBI and to provide working capital to support the growth of the business. Aberdeen-based, FIS Chemicals Ltd have been established since 1980 to design, formulate, manufacture and supply specialised chemicals to industry and commercial operations throughout Scotland, […]
Time Finance plc, the AIM listed independent specialist finance provider, is pleased to announce significant advances in the development of its digital capabilities with a number of new automated processes already implemented and more planned to be introduced shortly across the Group’s IT platforms. These will enhance automation throughout the Group’s product divisions and provide […]
