Appointments

Equity Release Supermarket appoints new CMO

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) have announced the appointment of Richard Brook as its chief...

Kensington appoints new national account manager

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of Adam Sheldon as its new national account...

Air appoints new business development consultant

Later life lending platform, Air, has appointed Nicola Palmer as senior business development consultant to...

FCA expands leadership team

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed six directors as it expands its headcount....

H&R BS appoints new COO

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has welcomed its new chief operating officer (COO) to...

Richard Deacon joins Tuscan Capital

Tuscan Capital has announced that Richard Deacon has joined as sales director, responsible for...

Kuflink appoints head of origination

Bridging lender, Kuflink, has announced the appointment of Ranjit Narwal as head of origination. He...

Coventry Building Society appoints chief risk officer

Richard Bowles has been appointed as chief risk officer at Coventry Building Society. Bowles will...

New invoice finance firm appoints MD

One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has launched a new invoice financing company. The East Yorkshire-based...

Mortgage Brain unveils new COO

Cloë Atkinson has been appointed as chief operating officer (COO) of Mortgage Brain. She will...

UTB appoints business development director

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Adam Ware as a business development director in...

Glenhawk unveils senior appointments

Glenhawk has appointed Michael Clifford as commercial director, Simon Lee as head of mortgage...

Trio joins Investec’s London mortgage intermediary team

Investec has announced the appointment of Chris Watts, Kieran Emmanuel and Zulfi Islam to...

Assetz Capital hires relationship director

Assetz Capital has added to its origination team with the appointment of John McDonnell...

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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