Appointments

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...

Lendinvest appoints underwriting director and BDM

LendInvest has recruited a new director of mortgage underwriting and expanded its business development manager...

Ageas creates new intermediary director roles

Ageas Insurance has created three new directors of distribution roles, in a move which...

Glenhawk appoints group treasurer

Glenhawk has revealed that Daron Kularatnam, formerly of Investec Bank and then Belmont Green...

Masthaven appoints CFO

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Leigh Bartlett as chief financial officer (CFO) and...

Foundation Home Loans hires new brand manager

Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Katie Newell (previously Katie Tucker) as...

Paragon appoints director of mortgage sales

Moray Hulme has been appointed as director of mortgage sales at Paragon. His remit is...

Aspen Bridging appoints finance director

Aspen Bridging has appointed Manjeet Bhogal as finance director, who takes overall control of...

Commercial finance specialist joins Sirius Property Finance

Geoff Vickers has joined the commercial real estate and SME finance team at Sirius...

Signature Private Finance expands lending team

Signature Private Finance has appointed Michelle Walsh to its team of relationship managers. Walsh will be...

Openwork appoints chief operating officer

Openwork has appointed Mark Knowlton as its new chief operating officer (COO). He joins...

Oblix Capital makes COO appointment

Oblix Capital has appointed Stuart Sykes as its new chief operating officer (COO). He is...

Pair return to Brilliant Solutions

Mortgage club and specialist packager Brilliant Solutions has appointed a senior business development manager and...

COMMENT

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

Government support is fundamental to market growth

We’ve seen another week of mainstream lenders reduce their rates with more reductions predicted this coming week. This shows more comfort and confidence around...

Bridging is a natural fit for a Shariah-compliant bridging provider

The UK bridging market is, in many ways, a natural fit for Shariah-compliant finance because both are fundamentally built around real assets, partnership structures...

Why relationships are becoming the mortgage industry’s most valuable asset

Information has never been more accessible, yet confidence in financial services remains relatively low. As technology continues to reshape the market, the value of...

Before brokers invest in AI, they need to ask the right questions

AI has moved quickly from industry talking point to commercial priority. For mortgage brokers, the question is no longer whether AI matters. It is...

Latest news

Primis adds Uinsure sole-tie option to simplify general insurance process

Primis Mortgage Network has introduced a sole-tie option with Uinsure, giving adviser firms an...

HSBC to continue broker fraud prevention webinars in Q3

HSBC UK is extending its programme of fraud prevention webinars for mortgage intermediaries after...

Beverley BS reports rising demand for RIO mortgages

Beverley Building Society has reported a significant increase in demand for its Retirement Interest...

MorganAsh urges firms to improve Consumer Duty reporting ahead of FCA deadline

MorganAsh has warned financial services firms they need to strengthen how they evidence outcomes...

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