Appointments

Shawbrook appoints head of growth capital

Shawbrook Bank has appointed William Chappel to run its new growth capital business. Chappel (pictured),...

Senior hires support Pepper’s banking licence plan

Pepper Money is to create a new entity to seek authorisation for a banking...

FCA recruits new competition director from CMA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Sheldon Mills as its new director of...

MTF appoints BDM

MTF has appointed Richard Sherman has a new business development manager. Sherman (pictured) joins...

Connect bolsters commercial lending team

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed a commercial lending specialist to its commercial team. Gareth Norman...

Nicola Alvarez joins Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has appointed Nicola Alvarez to its corporate account team. Alvarez (pictured) has over...

Nick Allen becomes Vida Homeloans’ director of marketing

Vida Homeloans has announced two promotions in its sales and marketing team. Nick Allen has...

More 2 Life appoints director of operations and change management

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Ben Waugh as director of operations and...

Landbay expands Midlands team

Landbay has appointed Rob Stanton as a regional account manager for the Midlands. Stanton joins...

Accord appoints corporate account manager

Accord Mortgages has added its corporate account team with the appointment of Helen Cawthra. Cawthra...

New NED for HL Partnership

Mortgage and protection network, HL Partnership, has appointed Mike Hughes as non-executive director (NED). Hughes...

The Leeds appoints director of business transformation

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Nick Young as its new director of business...

Seven new BDMs for Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for Intermediaries is adding seven additional business development managers (BDMs) to its team...

Mortgages for Business gets new managing director

Steve Olejnik has been appointed managing director of Mortgages for Business. He takes over from...

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

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...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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