Appointments

BFS appoints managing director for construction finance

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Jim Davis as managing director for construction finance. Joining...

The Coventry BS appoints new CEO

Steve Hughes, currently chief executive of Principality Building Society, is to be appointed as...

SimplyBiz Mortgages appoints head of strategic development

Richard Merrett has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages in the newly created role of head of...

First female chair for IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced that Louisa Sedgwick, director of sales...

Aldermore boosts presence in Southern England

Aldermore has appointed Justin Nel as regional sales manager for the South East and...

LendInvest appoints head of key accounts

LendInvest has promoted Andy Virgo from business development manager (BDM) to head of key...

AMI reveals board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has completed its election process. The results are as...

HL Partnership creates finance director role

HL Partnership (HLP) has appointed Peter Cobley to the newly created position of finance...

Kingsway Asset Finance makes board level promotion

Kingsway Asset Finance has promoted Mike Day to its board of directors. Following a year...

BFS appoints business development manager

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Steve Taylor as business development manager (BDM) for construction...

New chairman at the Buckinghamshire BS

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Dick Jenkins as the new...

New chairman for Rightmove

Rightmove has announced the appointment of Andrew Fisher as non-executive chairman with effect from...

Simon Carr rejoins Promise Solutions

Simon Carr, formerly a director at the specialist lending packager and broker, Promise Solutions,...

Fluent Money appoints group chief technology officer

Specialist lending distributor, Fluent Money Group, has appointed Steve Strickland-Wright to the newly created...

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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...