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We are delighted to be featured in the latest issue of The Parliamentary Review. This is a huge success for Finance 4 Business and something we are immensely proud of. Founder and Managing Director Russell Martin discusses the Finance 4 Business journey so far and how our specialist finance solutions can help you and your…

On Saturday 22nd June 2019 we hosted our second charity football tournament at Sporting Khalsa FC in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. After last year’s washout the weather was on our side with clear blue skies and plenty of sun providing the perfect conditions for football. The tournament consisted of 8 teams which were split…

To kick-start the next period of growth for Finance 4 Business we are delighted to announce a number of internal changes for the company. James Danks has been promoted to head of Bridging and Development. James has worked for Finance 4 Business for a number of years, progressing through the graduate training programme and more…

Finance 4 Business is delighted to announce that the charity we will be supporting this year is Birmingham Children’s Hospital. We are thoroughly looking forward to making a difference for this great charity with plenty of exciting events planned for the rest of 2019. To kick things off, we will be hosting a charity football…

We are delighted to announce that we’ll be jointly hosting an event at the Innovation Centre in Wolverhampton Science Park with Innovation 4 Business, Liquidity Club, Lloyds Commercial and BCRS Business Loans as part of this years Black Country Business Festival. The Black Country Business Festival is an annual, two-week festival incorporating hundreds of free…

If there’s one word that sums up the UK at the moment it’d surely be uncertainty. The ongoing chaos surrounding Brexit and what kind of deal the UK will receive when we leave the European Union – if there’s any deal at all – has left us all feeling more than a little uncertain. And,…

There’s no getting away from the fact the UK housing market is flat. Whether because of affordability issues, Brexit uncertainty or house prices, there just isn’t a lot of activity at the moment. Indeed, a report by Lloyds Bank found the number of people who moved home in 2017 fell to 367,000 – down from…

Whatever figures you choose to go by one thing is clear at the moment, the specialist lending market is on the brink of something great. According to the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), for example, specialist lenders have seen a massive 19% growth in volume since 2009 with annual values tripling in that time. But…

The world is changing. Indeed, at present, from a political standpoint at least it’s changing by the second! But even aside from the chaos of Brexit, it’s clear that we’re operating in a whole new landscape to that in which we found ourselves some 10 or 20 years ago. The fact is the way people…

A recent report by the Ernst and Young Financial Services Corporate Finance team has concluded that the number of bridging lenders operating within the sector could decrease in the next two to five years as intensifying competition leads to an ‘organic’ expansion of leading industry players, the increased acquisition of smaller lenders and the growing…