Appointments

Cirencester Friendly hires customer care head

Cirencester Friendly has appointed Michelle West-Wiggins as its new head of customer care. She...

Bridgebank adds to business development team

Bridgebank Capital has appointed Sarah Fisher to its business development team, to support the company’s...

New appointments at Roma Finance

Roma Finance has appointed Steve Baker, previously managing director (retail) at Together Money, as...

New BDM for bridging firm

Bridging Finance Solutions has expanded its business development team with the appointment of Sue Barron. Barron...

Treasury Committee greenlights Bailey’s FCA appointment

The Treasury Committee has published its report ‘Appointment of Andrew Bailey as Chief Executive of the...

Together finalises leadership team

Together has made two further appointments to its leadership team, concluding a spate of...

New underwriting manager for the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has appointed Paula Millard to the position of underwriting manager. Reporting...

Freedom Finance makes senior appointments

Freedom Finance has appointed Jeff Poole as managing director of Freedom Consumer Finance and...

The Leeds appoints intermediary distribution head

The Leeds Building Society has announced the appointment of a new head of intermediary...

DM Hall appoints new associate

Felicity Forbes Davidson has been promoted to Associate at DM Hall, one of Scotland’s...

New BDM for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) covering the Midlands. Chris Kirby joins the buy-to-let lender with...

CSF appoints key account manager

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has appointed Dan Morris as key account manager and has...

New sales & marketing head at First 4 Bridging

First 4 Bridging has announced the appointment of Michelle Douglas as its new head of...

Fluent Money hires group compliance director

Second charge distributor Fluent Money has appointed Stuart Almond as group compliance director 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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