Appointments

Channel Capital Advisors appoints chief commercial officer

Ion Fratiloiu has joined Channel Capital Advisors as its new chief commercial officer. Fratiloiu...

One Stop Business Finance appoints six BDMs

Alternative lender, One Stop Business Finance, has doubled its team with six new business...

Black Book Finance hires real estate specialist

Hiren Depala has joined Black Book Finance as a real estate specialist. Depala (pictured) has...

Assetz Capital expands sales team

Specialist marketplace lender Assetz Capital has expanded its team with the appointment of relationship...

Hodge makes three commercial appointments

Hodge has added three new managers to its commercial lending team. Andy Buss...

Scottish Building Society announces new chair

Scottish Building Society has revealed that, following a 10-year term, with five years at...

Crystal Specialist Finance unveils new BDM

Crystal Specialist Finance has continued to expand its ranks by announcing a further recruit...

Go Commercial Finance appoints asset finance head

Independent commercial finance advisers, Go Commercial Finance, has appointed Leighton Davies as its new...

LiveMore restructures sales management

LiveMore has appointed a new head of intermediary sales as part of a restructuring....

New NEDs for Shepherds Friendly

Shepherds Friendly has added two new non-executive directors to its board. Alison McKinna and...

New CEO for Cirencester Friendly

Cirencester Friendly is announcing that its director of finance and risk, Andy Morris, will become...

Ultimate Finance recruits new regional director

Specialist asset-based lender Ultimate Finance has announced the appointment of Alice Williams as a...

LiveMore appoints dedicated RSM for North and Scotland

LiveMore has expanded its sales and broker support team with the appointment of its...

Time Finance appoints broker manager

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Lauren Sharples as broker manager in its...

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

Eleos launches income protection with redundancy cover

Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury...

Trade bodies welcome first-time buyer scheme but call for careful design

Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning...

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...

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