Christmas has come early for a client of Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) after a stalled £748,870 deal was picked up and turned around in just 15 hours. The broker’s client, who required the funds to redeem a second charge bridging loan and to raise capital for business purposes, contacted CSF at 17:30 on a Friday […]
NatWest has today announced it is opening its doors to new applications to join its in-house Entrepreneur Accelerator programme, offering a fully funded support programme for UK scale-ups and high growth businesses looking to scale and succeed. The bank is now accepting applications from growing businesses with ambition to scale to join the programme, with […]
Investec Capital Solutions is pleased to announce the launch of the Investec Flexible Trading Account. Investec is offering the Flexible Trading Account, a multifaceted solution which supports growth by providing working capital and cashflow throughout the buying and sales cycle with FX and hedging facilities. This account is designed to help clients, especially exporters and […]
Metro Bank has provided Noumed Life Sciences with a £4.5m asset finance facility to support the acquisition of new pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment at its Maidenhead offices. In addition, Metro Bank is also proud to become the full commercial banking provider to Noumed. This combined asset finance and banking package will enable Noumed to produce a […]
United Trust Bank (UTB) has completed a £5.5m refinance of a 5-storey apartment block in Slough with completion taking place just eight days after the facility was given credit approval. The funding repaid the existing lender and released equity for the borrower to reinvest in new projects. The scheme of 34 new apartments was developed […]
AgriBriefing’s Women in Food and Agriculture initiative, launched earlier this year to promote the role of women across the agribusiness supply chain, has today announced the release of an industry-wide survey, in conjunction with Alltech. With the global population projected to rise to more than 9 billion by 2050 and the demand for food expected […]
The award winners were: Soft Asset Provider of the Year Investec Hard Asset Provider of the Year Aldermore Motor Finance Provider of the Year Blackhorse Factor and Invoice Discounter of the Year Bibby Unsecured Lender of the Year Funding Circle Short-Term lender of the Year Shawbrook Specialist Lender of the Year Lendinvest Most Innovative Lender […]
The latest Lloyds Bank Business Barometer shows: Overall business confidence increased three points to 9%. Economic optimism increased by nine points to 7% in November, the highest level of optimism seen since January. Firms’ concerns about the expected impact of the UK leaving the EU eased back further to -16%. The West Midlands remained the […]
Moneypenny will offer free trials and discounts on their services to entrepreneurs on NatWest’s Accelerator programme NatWest’s Accelerator hubs will host events where Moneypenny experts will share their advice on how to use technology to grow a business NatWest is partnering with Moneypenny, the world’s largest and highest rated outsourced communications provider, to bring the […]
Trade associations, like the ASTL, can promote effective self-regulation, which could make further FCA intervention in the bridging sector unnecessary, according to former FCA mortgage manager, Lynda Blackwell. Speaking at the ASTL Annual Conference last week, Lynda Blackwell said that she didn’t think full regulation of the bridging market would happen any time soon, adding […]
