A new SME bank has been granted regulatory approval and plans to launch in 2021.

Aspen Bridging has announced a special Christmas rate reduction, offering 0.54% on all deals completed between today and December 24th.

From today, Catalyst Property Finance has increased its refurbishment allowance from 75% to 100% of day one value.

SMEs are the lifeblood of the UK economy, making up 99.9% of the 5.4million businesses nationwide. Last year they generated over £2.3trillion in turnover. 16.8million of the population work for one.

Barclaycard's latest SME Barometer has found that two-thirds (66%) of SMEs in England feel more prepared for the current national lockdown than they did for the first lockdown in March.

Atom Bank has partnered with Codat to simplify its business lending process.

Optimum Commercial has added Roma Finance, the specialist bridging, development and buy-to-let lender, to its new Optimum Elite panel.

It is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed the way businesses operate. With the announcement of the first lockdown in late March, the private sector was suddenly forced to...

We spoke to Arya Taware, founder and managing director of FutureBricks, about growing demand for alternative finance from developers and current challenges for small to medium housebuilders during...

Delays are a hot topic in the trade press at the moment, and rightly so as a number of factors are combining to clog up transactions however efficient the lender may be.