Appointments

Saffron for Intermediaries appoints regional BDM

Saffron Building Society has announced the appointment of Lesley Terry as its new business...

Pepper Money appoints key accounts manager

Pepper Money has bolstered its sales team with the recruitment of Brad Rhodes as...

New marketing and products manager at Hope Capital 

Hope Capital has appointed Sarah Butler as the firm’s new marketing and products manager. Butler...

Spring Finance hires new bridging underwriter

Spring Finance has appointed Jordan Lapid as an underwriter to work within the specialist...

British Business Bank reveals new CEO

Louis Taylor has been appointed CEO of the British Business Bank. He will take up...

Pepper Money promotes Ryan Brailsford

Pepper Money has promoted Ryan Brailsford to the new role of director of business...

OneFamily announces new non-executive director

OneFamily has revealed that Melanie Hind will be joining its board as a non-executive...

Bathgate expands board of directors

Bathgate Business Finance has expanded its board of directors with two new appointments from...

Three new hires for Catalyst

Catalyst has appointed two key account managers and a senior credit analyst. Joining the new...

Bluestone appoints head of business development

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the promotion of Niamh Downey to head of business development. Downey...

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints London sales director

Secure Trust Bank has appointed Vincent Walker as regional sales director in its London...

The Mansfield expands its sales team

The Mansfield has bolstered its sales operation with Sabiha Moghal joining the Society’s business...

Vida appoints key account manager

Vida has announced the appointment of Darren Cunliffe as key account manager for the...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints BDM for North East and Scotland

Newcastle Intermediaries has appointed Sophie Goodwin as business development manager to support brokers and...

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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