Appointments

Aldermore appoints head of external comms

Aldermore has appointed Alan Oliver as its new head of external communications. Oliver (pictured)...

New staff member at Affirmative

Affirmative has recruited Katie Dawes to its processing team. Dawes has over five years’ experience...

New chief executive for Hinckley & Rugby BS

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has appointed Colin Fyfe as its new chief...

Co-operative Bank appoints new CEO

The Co-operative Bank has announced the appointment of Andrew Bester as its CEO. He joins...

Pure Retirement expands support for equity release advisers

Pure Retirement has recruited a further 24 members to its team. The firm aims to...

Fluent Money develops later life lending subsidiary

Fluent Money Group (FMG) has appointed Aaron Conlon as managing director of newly formed...

Shawbrook appoints head of networks

Caroline Mirakian, formerly of Metro Bank, has joined Shawbrook Bank as head of networks...

Charles McDowell to join Hampshire Trust Bank

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Charles McDowell as managing director...

Bibby Financial Services makes Yorkshire appointment

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Lauren Maloney as a business development manager (BDM),...

Paul Smee joins Conveyancing Association as non-executive chair

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced the appointment of a new non-executive chair and...

The Teachers appoints head of proposition & distribution

The Teachers Building Society has appointed Michelle Cutler to the newly created role of...

Mortgage Advice Bureau Swindon hires experienced adviser

Mortgage Advice Bureau Swindon has announced the appointment of experienced mortgage adviser Ken Sneddon...

Kensington appoints account development manager for Scotland

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of Sharon Cochrane as account development manager (ADM)...

Bank of Ireland UK expands intermediary sales team

Bank of Ireland UK has recruited six new faces to its intermediary sales team...

COMMENT

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...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

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...

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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