Key facts

Commercial Finance

  • a leading lender in the UK commercial property market with a loan book in excess of £12bn
  • transactions range from £1m to in excess of £300m+
  • customers range from private property investors to institutional funds and specialist property firms to major public limited companies
  • customers include major quoted property companies such as Shaftesbury and British Land and major investment funds such as Henderson plc, ING, London & Capital and customers of REIT Asset Management

Housing Finance

  • leading lender to affordable housing providers, becoming the first to commit over £9bn to the sector
  • have supported the sector for over 50 years, making our first loan to a housing association in 1958

Project Finance

  • committed over £1.5bn to the UK PFI/PPP sector to over 80 separate projects
  • market leaders in UK Social Infrastructure projects (ranked 2nd in the Infrastructure Journal 2009 League Table for Mandated Lead Arrangers)