Appointments

Kent Reliance appoints senior BDM for South West

Kent Reliance has announced the appointment of Sarah Hopkins as a senior business development...

Two new NEDs for Fosters Financial

Fosters Financial has appointed two non-executive directors to its board. Headquartered in Colchester, and with...

Brian Coulton joins Paymentshield from Source

Paymentshield has annouced the recruitment of Brian Coulton as national account manager. Coulton joins Paymentshield...

Pepper Money hires new head of national accounts

Pepper Money has recruited Caroline Mirakian to be its new head of national accounts. The...

UK Finance reveals mortgages board changes

UK Finance has announced the appointment of RBS’ Lloyd Cochrane as the new chair...

CII appoints professional standards committee chair

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Jennette Newman as chair of the Professional...

Brightstar creates new national account manager role

Brightstar Financial has promoted Darren Perry to the new role of national account manager. He...

New members for ALEP’s advisory committee

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has voted in two new Advisory Committee...

Carol Sergeant joins Belmont Green as NED

Belmont Green Finance, which as the Vida Homeloans brand, has announced that Carol Sergeant...

Key Group appoints group B2B distribution director

Key Group has promoted Russell Warwick, formerly strategy director) to group B2B distribution director. Warwick...

Two new appointments and HTB contract for Target Group

Target Group has implemented new mandate for the Development Bank of Wales to provide...

Assurant Intermediary expands sales team

Assurant Intermediary has announced the appointment of Liam Nugent as business development manager (BDM). He...

Oblix Capital appoints BDM for the South West and Wales

Oblix Capital has recruited Andy Gray as business development manager (BDM) for the South...

Trio of new appointments for commercial lender

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has made three new director appointments across the South,...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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