We are a UK specialist bank. Our lending products include mortgages for landlords and loans for business customers.

We use our specialist expertise to help our customers achieve their ambitions.

Our strategy is to build a specialist bank for our customers, which delivers sustainable growth and shareholder returns through a low risk and robust model.

Overview

Q3 2023 trading update

Strong financial and operational performance for the quarter, full year guidance reconfirmed.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is central to our long-term success and it influences every aspect of our business

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2022 Responsible Business Report

Sharing the progress we made in 2022 on key environmental, social and governance issues.

News

Keep up-to-date with the latest new releases and insights from across our business.

Overview

Limited company landlords

We examine the growth of the limited company landlord and the route to incorporation.

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Careers

We understand how important our employees are to the business and, in recognition of this, we provide a variety of excellent reasons to work for us.

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Start your career at Paragon!

We offer a range of apprenticeship and internship positions to get people started on their career.

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Minimising our footprint

We take care to identify, manage and minimise our impact on the environment, both in terms of the impact of our lending products and our own operational impact.

Minimising our footprint

We operate in mortgage, consumer and commercial finance markets and therefore the overall environmental impact of our operations is low. However, we are committed to identifying, measuring and managing how our actions affect the environment and finding ways to reduce their negative impacts.

44%

Reduction in market-based emissions compared to the 2019 baseline

86.4%

Electricity from renewable sources

34%

Waste diverted from landfill

Environmental initiatives

Waste to energy

Since 2020, all general waste produced across our sites has either been recycled or disposed of through energy from waste initiatives, reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill.

New premises

In 2022, our SME lending team in Southampton relocated to a new, climate-friendly office with a B-rated energy performance certificate, four electric car charging points and cycle stores.

Future goals

In 2023, we’ll continue upgrading and re-assessing our buildings and management systems to further improve our EPC ratings.

Environmental policy and risk management

We comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the environment and include these within our legal compliance framework. Our environmental commitment is included in our Health, Safety and Environmental Policy, which is approved by our Chief Executive and our Chief People Officer.

Our environmental commitments are approved by our Chief Executive and kept under regular review.

The environmental risk inherent in our operations is managed by the Group Property function and is within the remit of the Chief Operating Officer. It is monitored within our operational risk management framework by the second line Operational Risk function and the Operational Risk Committee.

Energy data is collated by Group Property, the division responsible for managing Paragon’s premises. Consumption figures for all locations occupied, whether directly owned or tenanted, are actively monitored. This is reported upwards to Board level.

We comply with the Energy Savings and Opportunities Scheme. This is a UK Government initiative, under an EU Directive, and requires us to identify and reduce our energy consumption.

Paragon has not been involved in any prosecutions, accidents or similar non-compliances in respect of environmental matters and has not incurred any fines in respect of such matters.

Specialist Fleet Services (SFS)

SFS leases refuse collection vehicles to local authorities throughout the UK and carries out additional aftersales activities that include servicing, maintenance and breakdown support. This means it has the most significant potential environmental impacts within the Group.

SFS operates from several workshops around the UK and has exposure to several waste streams (oils, vehicle parts etc) that come from its workshop activities. These are effectively managed under an environmental management system that is certificated to an International Standard – ISO14001:2015. A dedicated health and safety manager has direct responsibility for environmental issues at all SFS sites.

Supply chain and procurement

We are committed to identifying, targeting and addressing inefficiencies in our supply chain and our procurement function works with key suppliers to identify solutions to continue to reduce the environmental impacts of our business activities whether direct or indirectly.

Our main suppliers are our outsourced savings administrator, legal and professional services providers, building lessors and IT service providers, who are exposed to similar operational environmental risks as us.

Supplier Code of Conduct

Measuring progress

We are continually looking at ways to improve the environmental performance of our 12 UK sites. This includes reducing our carbon emissions through the efficient use of energy and water, minimising consumption and waste while recycling where possible, and encouraging responsible behaviour among our colleagues. See our Responsible Business Report for more information.