Appointments

Kensington appoints chief operating officer

Kensington Mortgages has recruited Mark Foulsham as its new chief operating officer. He will join...

Mark Sismey-Durrant to advise Oblix Capital

Oblix Capital has appointed Mark Sismey-Durrant as an independent adviser to its board.  His previous...

Together hires ex-banker as adviser to board

Specialist lender Together has hired ex-banker Simon Raine as an advisor to its board. Raine...

Equity Release Council appoints comms manager

The Equity Release Council has appointed Chris Fay to the position of communications manager. The...

National Friendly appoints head of risk & compliance

National Friendly has appointed Lisa de-Laune as its new head of risk & compliance. With...

Paymentshield appoints pair of regional sales managers

Paymentshield has recruited two new regional sales managers to its sales team. The general insurance (GI)...

Gatehouse Bank creates intermediary national key account manager role

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Sim Gill to the newly-created role of intermediary national key...

MFS appoints BDM

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has hired its third business development manager for...

Phoebus Software hires securitisation and funding specialist

Ian Sutton has joined Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) as a consultant specialising in the...

Mortgage Brain appoints new chairman

Mortgage Brain has appointed Peter Hill as its new chairman. Hill, whose previous roles include...

Cirencester Friendly expands executive team

Cirencester Friendly has made two appointments to support its growing presence in the income...

Target Group recruits chief commercial officer

Target Group has announced the appointment of Stuart Anderson as chief commercial officer. Anderson has over...

Precise Mortgages appoints London South West BDM

Precise Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) to support brokers in...

Legal & General appoints head of broker for GI

Legal & General has promoted Darren Prior to head of broker within its general...
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COMMENT

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...

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