Appointments

New chair for the Coventry

The Coventry Building Society has announces it intends to appoint Gary Hoffman as non-executive...

Pepper Money hires head of national accounts

Pepper Money has appointed Clare Jarvis in the new role of head of national...

New finance director for the Bath

Tom Leach has been appointed as finance director designate for the Bath Building Society. Leach...

Kent Reliance appoints senior BDM

Kent Reliance has appointed Matthew Butt as a senior business development manager (BDM) within...

Building society appoints new finance director

The Leek United Building Society has appointed Andrew Morris as its new finance director. He...

Challenger bank launches new direct finance team

Gatehouse Bank has announced the launch of a new direct finance team, based in...

Key Retirement Group appoints chief digital officer

Key Retirement Group has appointed Dave Johnson as chief digital officer. Prior to joining KR...

Paradigm Mortgage Services bolsters helpdesk function

Paradigm Mortgage Services has appointed a new member of staff to support its mortgage...

BFS appoints regional business development manager

Keith Litherland has joined Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) as regional business development manager. Litherland (pictured) will...

Gavin Seaholme becomes Shawbrook head of commercial sales

Shawbrook Commercial Property has announced three senior promotions. Gavin Seaholme (pictured) has been appointed as...

Together expands broker sales team

Together has appointed Toni Martin as a new business development manager (BDM) to cover...

MAB appoints group managing director

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has announced the appointment of Ben Thompson as managing director of...

Sainsbury’s Bank appoints head of intermediary sales

David Crooke has been appointed as head of intermediary sales for Sainsbury’s Bank. Crooke (pictured) joins...

Alan Margolis joins Masthaven Bank

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Alan Margolis as its credit and operations...

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

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

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