News

Budget: Recovery Loan Scheme is Extended Until June 2022

In the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor confirmed the Recovery Loan Scheme will be extended until 30 June 2022 to ensure that lenders continue to have the confidence to lend to small and medium-sized businesses . The […]

Household Insurance

Can 95% LTV Mortgages Revive First Time Buyer Market?

Rishi Sunak has promised to turn ‘generation rent into generation buy’ in his latest budget announcement with a return to 95% mortgages, previously phased out after the 2008 financial crash. ‘Generation rent’ refers to those […]

Emerging Risk

Do You Need Loan Payment Protection Insurance?

In recent years, media attention around PPI, or Payment Protection Insurance has increased drastically. For a time, loan providers were delivering this insurance to customers without asking whether they really needed it. Some people even […]

Opinion

Four Alternatives to The Recovery Loan Scheme

Applications for CBILS have now closed, and the UK government has launched the recovery loan scheme. These alternatives don’t require assets as security. The COVID-19 pandemic has been hugely disruptive for businesses across the UK, […]

News

CBILS: SME Owners Are Putting Everything On The Line

The value of personal guarantee backed business loans to SMEs during the pandemic has risen on average by 45% according to analysis by Purbeck Insurance Services, provider of the UK’s only Personal Guarantee Insurance. As applications […]

Insurance Brokers

Corona; Govt Business Loan Scheme Could Provide Acquisition Funds

This could be good news for brokers or MGAs, depending on their individual circumstances of course; The UK government has launched the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) as it looks to help UK SMEs […]