
Q1 2025
Commercial Broker magazine returns in Q1 2025 with a fresh new look. In this 84-page bumper edition you’ll find the results from the NACFB’s 2024 membership survey. The report examines broker-led SME lending in 2024 and provides an overview of regional funding disparities, sector challenges, lender dynamics, and much more.
The edition also includes special features from a host of NACFB Patrons including Market Financial Solutions on opportunities in the specialist finance industry, multifi on the SME cashflow lending market, 365 Finance on leveraging AI, and Momenta Finance on the benefits of the human touch.
Our big interview is with NETSOL Technologies’ European sales director Jason Hurwitz and Prof. Trevor Williams shares his expert insights on the challenges and opportunities facing brokers as they face into 2025. We also spend five minutes with Edward Rixon, Senior Manager, Growth at Shawbrook Bank. The NACFB’s Head of Compliance, Sarah Cunningham, navigates broker-led lending’s biggest regulatory ambiguity.
This edition’s Patron Profile shines a spotlight on Handelsbanken for Intermediaries and the edition also offers a look ahead from headline sponsor NatWest.
You’ll also find a host of industry insight, opinion and commentary from InterBay, Cumberland Building Society, Let’s Do Business Finance, Purbeck Insurance Services, Hilton-Baird Financial Solutions, Allica Bank, Somo, Arbuthnot Latham, Cynergy Bank and Triodos Bank UK.