• Just Eat has partnered with Funding Circle to offer loans of up to £60,000 to the 30,000 UK restaurants servicing its takeaway app
  • Santander has said it is confident it will recover lost ground after it slipped from third to fourth in the CML’s 2016 gross lending rankings. The bank lent £25.5bn-worth of mortgages during the year, giving it a market share of 10.4%, down from the £26.1bn and 11.8% share achieved in 2015
  • MortgageGym.com has announced an investment from GoCompare. The robo-adviser allows UK homebuyers to complete their entire application online in 15 minutes through a free, digital mortgage marketplace