Appointments

Paradigm promotes business development pair

Paradigm Mortgage Services has promoted two members of staff to new business development consultant...

Key promotion for Damian Thompson at Aldermore

Aldermore has announced that Damian Thompson, its director of mortgages, will become its new...

Oblix Capital appoints non-executive chairman

Oblix Capital has announced that Mark Sismey-Durrant, formally an independent adviser to the board,...

Hitachi Capital (UK) appoints CIO

Business finance provider Hitachi Capital (UK) has appointed Kim Brien as chief information officer...

Vida Homeloans hire to cover Yorkshire & Manchester

Vida Homeloans has expanded its field sales team with the appointment of Joe Noon as...

Jason Berry joins Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has announced the appointment of Jason Berry to the newly...

New regional sales manager for Paymentshield

Paymentshield has recruited Derek Cluderay as a new regional sales manager. Cluderay (pictured) is tasked with...

Maria Harris joins Brightstar as consultant

Brightstar Financial has announced the appointment of Maria Harris in the new position of...

Together appoints senior legal counsel – treasury

Together Financial Services has announced that Sam Krivinskas has joined the business as senior...

New CEO for Sesame Bankhall Group

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced the appointment of Michele Golunska as chief executive...

Two new hires for Spotcap

Spotcap UK has reported that Ian Mills and Duncan Ballingall have joined the UK...

Richard Rowntree takes over from John Heron at Paragon

Paragon has appointed Richard Rowntree as managing director of mortgages. Rowntree (pictured) joins from the Bank...

New NED for Together Personal Finance

Together Financial Services has announced the appointment of John Hooper as a non-executive director...

SME funder announces new managing director

Simply, the SME funder, has made five senior promotions. It said the promotions were made...

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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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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

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

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...