The bridging lender launched the offer on residential products earlier this month.

Praetura now has two separate securitisation facilities in place for both sales finance and asset finance.

Variable rate products now start at 2.12% above base rate.

The Government also increased the VAT registration threshold from £85,000 to £90,000.

The steps come in response to a super complaint from the Federation of Small Businesses.

The lender has created a new London hub with a regional director supported by a team of relationship directors.

We spoke to David Raw, managing director for commercial finance at UK Finance, about his background and previous roles at the FCA and Treasury, how intermediaries can best support SMEs...

Over a quarter of SMEs whose loan applications had been referred for manual underwriting, and who risked missing out on credit, could be given access to finance had Open Finance been...

The change will increase the volume of lending that can be provided to borrowers.

Rob joined the team at HTB as a lending director in September 2022.