Appointments

Gary Bailey joins Hope Capital as managing director

Bridging lender Hope Capital has appointed Gary Bailey as its first managing director. Bailey...

Together appoints head of London intermediaries

Sundeep Patel has joined Together as the specialist lender's head of London intermediaries. He has...

Networks appoint five compliance officers

HLPartnership and Mortgage Support Network have announced the appointment of five new compliance officers...

Bowe and Gadhia join FPC

Dame Colette Bowe and Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia have been appointed as external members of...

VitalityInvest appoints deputy CEO

Justin Taurog, VitalityLife’s managing director of sales and distribution, has been appointed as deputy...

New GI hires for L&G

Legal & General has announced two new hires within its general insurance division. Guy Whittaker...

L&G appoints partnerships managing director

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Ali Crossley, as the new managing...

Adrian Payne re-joins Bibby Financial Services

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Adrian Payne as head of sales for the...

MT Finance hires senior underwriter

MT Finance has appointed Cattrina Wigley to the position of senior underwriter. Wigley (pictured) joins MT...

Pepper Money promotes Clare Jarvis to key intermediary post

Pepper Money has promoted Clare Jarvis to the position of head of intermediary distribution. Jarvis...

Changes at UK Finance board

UK Finance has announced the appointment of Charlotte Crosswell, CEO, Innovate Finance, and Mark...

Promotion for ​Mint Bridging’s head of underwriting

Mint Bridging has created a new role of head of lending, promotion for head...

The Ipswich BS appoints NED

The Ipswich Building Society has announced the appointment of Fiona Ryder as a non-executive...

Foundation Home Loans hires new regional account manager

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its senior sales team with the appointment of Keith...

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

Eleos launches income protection with redundancy cover

Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury...

Trade bodies welcome first-time buyer scheme but call for careful design

Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning...

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

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