Appointments

Paul Nye to retire from 
Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has announced that Paul Nye, its director of business partnerships, will retire...

Naismiths builds surveying team

National property consultancy and surveyors Naismiths has recruited a pair of surveyors to grow its surveying...

Mortgage Brain increases headcount

Mortgage Brain has recruited 15 new members of staff over the past year to...

L&G appoints intermediary division director

Legal & General has appointed Craig Brown as director of its intermediary division. Brown...

New CEO for LMS

Nick Chadbourne, chief operating officer (COO) at conveyancing service provider and panel manager LMS, has...

BML hires business development quartet

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed four business development professionals as it seeks to expand...

Street’s Northview Group successor revealed

Craig McKinlay is to join the Northview Group as its sales and marketing director. McKinlay...

Duo join Uinsure

GI provider Uinsure has made two appointments. Ian Ballinger joins as head of key accounts...

Co-op Insurance appoints new chair

Peter Hubbard has been appointed as chair of the board of Co-op Insurance. His has...

LendInvest hires ex-Aldermore commercial mortgages head

LendInvest has appointed Ian Boden as its sales director. Boden (pictured) joins LendInvest...

Senior hires for Target Group

Target Group has announced several new senior appointments to its board of directors and within its...

Key Retirement appoints CEO

Key Retirement has promoted Will Hale to CEO. Hale, who joined Key Retirement Group in...

Sesame and PMS hire specialist relationship manager

Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club have appointed Stephanie Charman to the newly created...

Magellan Homeloans recruits regional sales manager

Magellan Homeloans has appointed Louise Apollonio as regional sales manager for the North West...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Previously flooded homes face insurance premiums more than double UK average

Homeowners in properties that have previously flooded are paying 121% more for home insurance...

FCA and ICO tell firms GDPR is no excuse for failing vulnerable customers

A joint statement from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office has...

Together adds nCino Banking Advisor to lending operations

Together has adopted nCino Banking Advisor as it looks to improve efficiency in processing...

e4 Strategic unveils panel management platform for conveyancers and lenders

e4 Strategic has launched a new panel management platform aimed at helping lenders oversee...

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