Appointments

Black Book Finance hires BDM

Ross Williams has joined Black Book Finance as business development manager. He is tasked with...

Bluestone appoints director of sales & distribution

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Steve Seal as the newly created role...

New BDMs for Precise Mortgages

Precise Mortgages has appointed another two new business development managers (BDMs). Claire Aston and Chris...

Mortgages for Business hires finance director

Mortgages for Business has recruited William Grove as its new finance director. Grove joins from...

OneFamily appoints funding consultant

OneFamily has appointed Denise Saber as a funding consultant. She will report to John Adams,...

Foundation Home Loans adds to sales team

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Cheryl Power as regional account manager for the north. ...

Largemortgageloans.com appoints non-executive director 

Andy Pratt has joined Largemortgageloans.com as a non-executive director. Pratt was at Alexander Hall Associates Ltd...

More 2 Life appoints sales manager

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Catherine Casey as its new sales manager. Casey...

Magellan Homeloans appoints regional sales manager

Magellan Homeloans has appointed Nigel Robbins as regional sales manager with responsibility for the...

Positive Lending appoints regional account manager

Positive Lending has announced the appointment of David Coleman as the new regional account...

LendInvest hires its first BDM for Southern England

LendInvest has appointed Andy Virgo as its first business development manager (BDM) for the...

Openwork appoints customer protection panel chair

Openwork has appointed Sarah Howe to chair its new Customer Protection Panel. She has 30...

OneFamily appoints corporate and customer strategy director

OneFamily has appointed Guy French as its corporate and customer strategy director. He will report...

Metro Bank appoints new CIO

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Martyn Atkinson as chief information officer (CIO). He...

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...

Latest news

Rate rises squeeze demand as brokers lean on ‘needs-based’ borrowers

Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand...

Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...

Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

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