Appointments

MetLife appoints UK employee benefits director

MetLife has appointed Adrian Matthews as UK employee benefits director. He has been with...

TDS makes senior appointment to custodial team

Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) has announced that current ARLA vice president, Claire Lloyd, is...

Optimum Credit makes sales hire

Optimum Credit has appointed Jon Callow to its sales team as a as business development manager...

New BDM at the Monmouthshire

Caroline Barrett has joined the Monmouthshire Building Society as a business development manager (BDM). Her...

Together bolsters intermediary business team

Specialist lender Together has made two further appointments to its business development team. Nadine Edwards...

New chair for the PLSA

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has announced that Richard Butcher will become...

L&G makes key PRT hire

Pretty Sagoo has been appointed as head of the strategic business within Legal &...

New insight head for the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has appointed a new head of insight. Tim Steere (pictured), previously the mutual’s customer...

Foundation Home Loans hires product manager

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Andrew Moss as product manager. Moss has spent over...

Sales team changes at Paymentshield

Paymentshield has announced that Neil Parfitt has been promoted from regional sales manager to...

Network appoints development manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gareth Finney to the role of development...

TMA hires regional key account manager

TMA Mortgage Club has announced the appointment of Sarah Evans as a regional key...

Together appoints new director of corporate affairs

Specialist lender Together has appointed Mike Davies as its new director of corporate affairs. Davies...

New BDM for Castle Trust

Castle Trust Capital has appointed Alan Coleman as telephone business development manager (BDM) for...

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

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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