Appointments

Chief examiner in regulated equity release appointed

Graham Evans, head of compliance at Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has been appointed the...

Accord appoints telephone BDM pair

Accord Mortgages has added its sales division with the appointment of two new telephone...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints sales and marketing director

Emma Hollingworth is to join Bluestone Mortgages as sales and marketing director. Hollingworth (pictured) will...

New CEO of the ASTL appointed

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed that Vic Jannels will become...

Hodge Bank appoints two new directors

Hodge Bank has appointed Graeme Hughes as senior independent director of Julian Hodge Bank...

Masthaven appoints director of intermediaries

Masthaven Bank has promoted Rob Barnard to the newly-created role of director of intermediaries. Barnard...

Two new advisers for Sirius Property Finance

Sirius Property Finance has recruited two new advisers, Charlotte Stanford and Gary Smale. Stanford (pictured) joins...

Skipton International appoints new director of credit

Skipton International has appointed Simon White as its director of credit. White (pictured) joins the...

Paymentshield appoints new regional sales manager

Paymentshield has recruited a new regional sales manager for London and Kent. Simon Parish joins...

LMS appoints new chief financial officer

Conveyancing solutions provider LMS has announced the appointment of Chris Williams as chief financial officer. Williams...

Major management shake-up at Sesame Bankhall Group

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced significant changes to its executive team structure, including...

New BDM for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) for the South of...

Gatehouse Bank appoints telephone BDM

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Thomas Humphreys to a telephony business development manager position within...

LV= General Insurance appoints sales and marketing director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has appointed Jon Mansley to the newly created role...

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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...