Appointments

New faces at Go Commercial Finance

Go Commercial Finance has appointed two new members of staff and created a new...

New chair of the FSCS appointed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have announced the...

Metro Bank creates 120 new roles

Metro Bank is opening a new 24/7 contact centre in central Ilford, creating 120...

Hope Capital expands to drive growth plans

Hope Capital has appointed a new member of staff and a consultant to help...

Keystone hires business managers for the North

Keystone Property Finance has appointed Sara Finlay-Hudson and Gary Dean to its business development...

InterBay Commercial revamps sales structure

InterBay Commercial has created a new sales structure, designed to better support its broker...

New trustees at Leeds Building Society Foundation

Two new trustees have joined the Leeds Building Society Foundation. The appointment of David Marsh...

New BDM at Octane Capital

Octane Capital has recruited Josh Knight as a business development manager (BDM). Knight (pictured) joins from...

Jeremy Cook joins Metro Bank

Metro Bank has appointed Jeremy Cook as head of corporate relationships within its mortgage...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network grows development team

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced the appointment of Simon Thomas as...

Together makes senior management appointments

Together has announced that John Lowe will be joining its senior management team and...

TML hires key account manager for Scotland

Hanif Hussain has been appointed by The Mortgage Lender (TML) as key account manager...

Butterfield Mortgages hires relationship manager

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed Radhika Madar has joined BML as relationship manager. She...

L&G appoints mortgage club director

Legal & General has appointed Kevin Roberts as director of the Legal & General...

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

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...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

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