Appointments

Head of intermediaries at Platform appointed

The Co-operative Bank has made two senior appointments within its mortgages team. Fred Sharp joins...

Trussle appoints CEO

'Digital' mortgage broker, Trussle, has announced the appointment of Ian Larkin as its new...

Two new hires for Nucleus Commercial Finance ABL team

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its Asset Based Lending team (ABL) with the appointment...

Just Mortgages hires financial services director

Just Mortgages has appointed its first female financial services director in Kerry-Ann Davies. She has...

Openwork appoints new chief executive

Openwork has announced the appointment of Philip Howell as chief executive, subject to statutory...

United Trust Bank makes asset finance underwriting hire

United Trust Bank has appointed Giles Hussey to join the underwriting team in the...

Octane Capital makes sales support team appointment

Ryan Houssart has become the latest member of Octane Capital's sales support team. He joins...

Eligible.ai creates advisory board

Eligible.ai has assembled a new advisory board, comprised of mortgage industry figures. Eligible says it...

Openwork appoints regional recruitment manager

Openwork has recruited Tracey Saunders to the role of regional recruitment manager. She joins the...

Catalyst Property Finance appoints head of new business

Principal lender, Catalyst Property Finance, has announced the promotion of James Farge to head...

Sales function boost for CSF

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has expanded its sales function with the appointment of Samantha...

Brightstar hires national account manager

Brightstar Financial has recruited Mark Hollands as national account manager. His role is to develop...

Secure Trust Bank appoints regional managing director for London

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has appointed Richard Foote as its regional managing director...

Spotcap boosts partnership and sales support team

Business lender Spotcap has appointed Amanda Reece (right) and Faton Gashi (left), who jhave...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Hope Capital targets refurb market with high-LTV bridging product

Hope Capital has launched a new bridging loan product offering 75% net initial advance. It...

Savvy summer sellers deliver strongest July sales since 2020

July delivered the highest number of sales agreed for this month since 2020 as...

Newcastle for Intermediaries removes age cap on standard repayment mortgages

Newcastle for Intermediaries has abolished the maximum age limit for the repayment of standard...

Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...