Appointments

Skipton appoints telephone BDM

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Craig Ebbrell to its...

Association of Financial Mutuals appoints next chief executive

The Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has announced the appointment of Andrew Whyte as...

Sesame Bankhall Group makes three senior internal appointments

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced three senior internal appointments to help drive the...

Castle Trust Bank adds to bridging sales team

Castle Trust Bank has expanded its sales team with the recruitment of Barry Ireland...

UTB appoints head of credit for asset finance 

United Trust Bank (UTB) has Jon Phillips to the new role of head of...

Reassured appoints chairman

Life insurance broker, Reassured, has appointed Matthew Donaldson as non-executive chairman. Donaldson will work...

Hodge appoints new chief information officer

Tim Thompson has joined Hodge’s executive team as its new chief information officer (CIO). ...

Sundeep Patel to join UTB tomorrow

United Trust Bank (UTB) recently revealed that it had appointed Sundeep Patel as director...

Redwood Bank appoints ESG director

Redwood Bank has appointed its first ESG director. Graham Reynolds, who has more than...

Aldermore makes asset finance appointments

Aldermore has appointed Simon Lefevre as its head of wholesale and Chris Smith as...

Target Group appoints chief risk officer

Target Group has announced that Kathy Griffin has joined as chief risk officer. Griffin joins from...

Nottingham BS creates chief technology and transformation officer role

Nottingham Building Society has announced the appointment of Paul Howley as its first ever...

Bibby Financial Services appoints head of sales for corporate North

SME financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Daniel Williams as head of sales...

New risk chief for TAB

Bridging lender TAB has appointed Jason Shead as the new chief risk officer. Shead (pictured)...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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