Appointments

Ultimate Finances hires regional director

Ultimate Finance has appointed Neil Curtis as regional director of Asset Finance in its...

Castle Trust appoints East Anglia BDM

Castle Trust has recruiting a business development manager (BDM) for the East Anglia region. Mark Stephenson’s territory...

Senior hire for e.surv

Katie Boyes-Barker has been appointed as customer proposition manager for private survey services at...

Key Retirement appoints deputy CEO

Key Retirement Group has promoted Simon Thompson to the newly-created position of deputy CEO. Thompson...

New recruits from Shawbrook graduate scheme

Shawbrook Bank has announced the arrival of three new hires to its commercial mortgages...

New BDM for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has recruited Steve Grant as a new property finance business...

Mint Bridging hires marketing head

Mint Bridging has announced the appointment of Amparo Burgos as its head of marketing. She has...

The Nationwide cuts fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society has reduced selected fixed, tracker and shared equity rates by up to...

New chief executive for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Mike Regnier as its new...

New vice-chairman for the Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Tony Morgan as its new...

LendInvest hires VP for compliance

LendInvest has appointed Willem Wellinghoff as vice-president of compliance. Wellinghoff (pictured) is responsible for leading...

Kuflink Bridging grows sales team

Kuflink Bridging has hired Chloe Carlin to develop new business through the intermediary sector...

Target Group appoints CCO

Target Group has announced the appointment of Jeremy Edwards as its chief client officer...

The Leeds hires corporate planning manager

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Joe Eddison as its new corporate planning manager....

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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