Appointments

Bridging Finance Solutions appoints regional business manager

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has announced the appointment of Richard Gray as regional business manager. Gray...

Metro Bank expands asset finance team

Metro Bank has announced two new appointments to its asset finance team. James Harrowsmith has...

L&G appoints general insurance CEO

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Cheryl Agius as the new CEO...

New commercial director for Personal Touch

Dave Edwards, Personal Touch's member services and IT director, is to succeed David Carrington...

New national BDM for Positive Commercial Finance

Positive Commercial Finance has recruited Gary Ellis as business development manager. Ellis (pictured) has worked in...

Ultimate Finance expands south east team

SME cashflow finance provider Ultimate Finance has appointed Iain Hendry as regional director in...

Michael Coogan joins Mortgages4Life board

New lender Mortgages4Life has appointed Michael Coogan as its independent chairman in anticipation of...

LendInvest appoints northern BDM

LendInvest has appointed its first business development manager (BDM) for northern England. Damien Druce (pictured), a BDM...

Appointments at Spring Finance

Second charge lender Spring Finance has promoted Kate Hill to the position of underwriting manager. She...

Bawa takes over at the Monmouthshire

James Bawa has been appointed to the role of chief executive of the Monmouthshire...

New hire for Prestige Finance

Prestige Finance has announced the appointment of Gareth Broome as senior business development manager. He will be representing...

Aldermore boosts business finance risk team

Aldermore has made several new appointments to its business finance risk management function. Jerry Barrie...

NACFB appoints interim CEO

Rob Lankey has been appointed interim CEO of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). The...

BDM returns to Uinsure

General insurance provider Uinsure has appointed Louise Appollonio as business development manager for the...

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

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...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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