Appointments

Interim chair starts at FCA

Richard Lloyd has become interim chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He takes over...

Quantum Mortgages expands key accounts team

Quantum Mortgages has recruited its third key account manager. Serena Grewal, formally of Santander, is...

Vida makes Midlands sales team appointment

Vida has announced the appointment of Sophie Burton as key account manager for the...

Together hires new regional account manager for the South

Specialist lender Together has appointed Dan Narwal as a regional account manager covering London...

Equity Release Supermarket welcomes two new advisers

Equity release advisory service, Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has appointed two new advisers. With...

New chairs appointed for FCA panels

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Helen Charlton as the chair of the...

The Nottingham shakes up BDM team

Richard Goodman has joined the Nottingham as a business development manager (BDM) to support...

Fleet appoints new marketing & events manager

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of Sarah Todd as its new marketing &...

Four new hires for Hope Capital

Hope Capital has expanded its team with the appointment of four new hires across...

New senior BDM for Central and Mercantile Trust

Central Trust and Mercantile Trust have appointed a new senior business development manager within...

More2life appoints director of manufacturing and adviser propositions

Equity release lender more2life has announced the appointment of Les Pick to the newly...

Hampshire Trust Bank strengthens development finance team

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of a business development director and...

Pepper Money makes NW sales appointment

Pepper Money has added to its sales team with the recruitment of Richard Pugh...

Buckinghamshire BS restructures mortgage sales team

Buckinghamshire Building Society has expanded its mortgage sales team "in response to market conditions". Following 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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