Appointments

Precise Mortgages grows sales team

Precise Mortgages has recruited Matt Yates to its sales team to support its network...

Ex-Ipswich CEO joins Teachers’ board

The Teachers Building Society has added Paul Winter to its board as a non-executive...

New chairs for FCA panels

The Financial Conduct Authority chairman, John Griffith-Jones, has announced the appointments of new chairs...

Amicus boss joins UK Finance board

John Jenkins, CEO of Amicus Finance, has been appointed to the board of UK...

LV= restructure sees Perks become MD

LV has restructured its life business to bring its protection, retirement solutions and heritage...

Octane Capital expands risk team

Octane Capital has recruited Gemma Salousti to its risk team as senior credit manager. She...

The Skipton appoints London intermediary relationship manager

The Skipton Building Society has appointed Tracey Nash to its intermediary manager team. She has...

UTB unveils new mortgages and bridging BDM team

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed the line-up of business development professionals tasked with...

Sarah Hartwell joins The Mortgage Lender

Sarah Hartwell has been recruited by The Mortgage Lender as its key account manager...

NACFB appoints CEO

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has announced the appointment of Graham...

Investec Private Banking appoints BDM

James Glynne-Percy has been appointed as a business development manager (BDM) at Investec Private...

Positive Commercial Finance hires new BDM

Positive Commercial Finance has appointed Simon Parkinson as business development manager (BDM). He has over...

Propertymark announces new presidents

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) and NAEA Propertymark (National Association of Estate...

LendInvest recruits second Northern BDM

LendInvest has appointed its second business development manager (BDM) for Northern England. Sophie Mitchell-Charman...

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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