Appointments

Complete FS hires associate director of operations

Claire Budden has rejoined Complete FS, becoming its new associate director of operations. She worked for...

Magellan appoints regional sales manager

Magellan Homeloans has appointed Pauline Hibbert as regional sales manager (RSM) for the East...

Trio of appointments for Goldentree

Goldentree Financial Services has announced three appointments. Scott Hannah moves to a business development manager...

L&G appoints group strategy and M&A director

Legal & General Group has announced the appointment of Paul Miller as group strategy...

Marc Graves promoted to MD of Sesame & PMS

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced changes to its executive management team. Managing director Stephen Gazard is...

DM Hall appoints East of Scotland head of agency

Scottish chartered surveying firm DM Hall has appointed a senior commercial professional to its East Coast-based...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints MD

Bluestone Group has announced the appointment of David Torpey as managing director of Bluestone Mortgages and...

Paul Brett joins Landbay

Landbay has appointed Paul Brett as managing director, intermediaries. He joins the peer-to-peer investment platform from...

Shawbrook makes commercial sales promotions

Shawbrook is restructuring its commercial mortgages’ field sales team. The move includes four promotions in...

Together strengthens development finance team

Together has appointed a new head of development funding. Ian Pickering, who has worked for...

Trio joins Complete FS

Complete FS has announced the arrival of three new members of staff to its...

New chief executive for the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has appointed Simon Beresford as its new chief executive. Beresford (pictured)...

Pair join Together’s commercial team

Together has announced two appointments to its commercial team. David Walsh (pictured, centre) has joined as...

Openwork expands recruitment team

Openwork has recruited Hayley Stansfield to the position of regional recruitment manager. Stansfield has over...

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

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...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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