Assetz Capital snags £200m to bolster small business support in mortgage lending August 15, 2022 Assetz Capital has snagged £200m in investment to help support smaller businesses through the UK’s economic turbulence, City A.M. can reveal today. The funding, from London-based Aeon Investments, will be injected over the next three years, and will see Assetz further diversify its mortgage lending and bolster its capacity to lend to the UK’s SMEs. The British [...]
Nervous homeowners on edge as mortgage rates hit highest level since 2016 with market fading fast August 2, 2022 The latest Bank of England data found last week that net borrowing of mortgage debt by individuals decreased to £5.3bn in June, from £8bn in May. Approvals for house purchases, an indicator of future borrowing, decreased to 63,700 in June, from 65,700 in May, which is below the 12-month pre-pandemic average up to February 2020 [...]
Hefty £1.5bn trading error legal charge erodes Barclays profits July 28, 2022 A £1.5bn legal charge for a trading error has eroded British bank Barclays’s profits, it announced today. Hefty litigation and regulatory costs to deal with selling too many financial products dealt a major blow to Barclays’s first half earnings. Pre-tax profits dropped by a quarter to £3.7bn in the six months to June, down from [...]
Lloyds profits top City’s expectation on higher interest rates July 27, 2022 Higher interest rates have lifted Britain’s largest mortgage lender Lloyds’s profits above the City’s expectations. Net interest income, the difference between what a bank charges borrowers and pays depositors, surged 13 per cent over the first six months of the year to £6.1n, Lloyds said today. That boost hoisted the lender’s pre-tax profits to £3.66bn, [...]
London markets jump ahead of expected big US Federal Reserve rate rise July 27, 2022 London markets shrugged off bets on the US Federal Reserve hiking rate steeply later today to jump during opening exchanges. The capital’s premier FTSE 100 index added 0.43 per cent to reach 7,337.93 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, increased 0.07 per [...]
Monzo ‘repeatedly failed customers’ by not sharing data, competition watchdog says July 26, 2022 The competition watchdog has accused Monzo of “repeatedly” failing its customers today after it found the digital lender had failed to share transaction data with people closing down their accounts.
Homeowners on edge as inflation and interest rates rise: What is next for UK mortgage rates? July 26, 2022 Many people up and down the country will be feeling the financial strain of the cost-of-living crisis, and this’ll only add more pressure on the monthly budgets of millions of UK mortgage homeowners and of those currently looking to buy. With the Bank of England’s base rates having risen to 1.25 per cent in June [...]
Week ahead: Banks to report amid high inflation and interest rate fears July 25, 2022 Customer behaviour and cost control are set to be top of the in-tray for the major banks as they update investors over the next week. Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest are all set to update the markets in a bumper week for the sector. Although priorities will vary slightly, there will be significant focus on whether [...]
Starling Bank hits first full year profits at £32m July 21, 2022 Starling Bank revealed it has hit its first full year profits today as the digital lender swings into the black from a £30m loss last year.
Exclusive: UK financial dealmaking slumps in value as recessionary fears take hold July 21, 2022 The volume of deals in the UK’s financial services sector rose to a seven-year high in the first half of the year but a looming recession and economic uncertainty caused the value of transactions to plunge, new figures have revealed.