Appointments

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,...

The Yorkshire appoints director of partnerships

The Yorkshire Building Society is promoting Ashley Price to director of partnerships. The new position...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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