Appointments

Allica Bank appoints head of growth finance

Allica Bank has appointed Ian Flaxman to the newly created role of head of...

Roma Finance unveils appointments and promotions

Roma Finance has announced eight new appointments and three promotions. Alan Collins and Saffron...

360 Dotnet hires head of intermediary sales

360 Dotnet has announced the appointment of Stephen Cowdell as its head of intermediary...

Avantia appoints chief financial officer

Avantia, the 'virtual' insurer behind the Homeprotect brand, has expanded its team with the...

Kuflink makes head of products appointment

Kuflink, the national bridging and development finance lender, has appointed Paul Auger as head...

Crystal Specialist Finance unveils new marketing director

Crystal Specialist Finance has announced the appointment of a new marketing director. Dom Wilkinson joins...

HTB makes North West lending manager hire

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Malone Roberts as lending manager...

The Mortgage Lender expands London presence 

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has announced the appointment of Sarah McCawley as key account...

Time Finance appoints head of credit

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Paul Seddon as head of credit. In this...

Berkeley Alexander MD joins Crystal Specialist Finance

Mark Hutchings has joined Crystal Specialist Finance as head of strategy and group products....

Hampshire Trust Bank makes three lending director appointments

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has revealed the appointment of three new lending directors within...

Shawbrook appoints head of real estate proposition

Shawbrook has revealed the appointment of Daryl Norkett as head of real estate proposition. Norkett...

LiveMore expands BDM team

LiveMore is growing its sales and broker support to meet the demand for interest-only...

Standard Life Home Finance hires new BDM

Standard Life Home Finance has expanded its business development team with the appointment of...

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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