Appointments

New chartered surveyors for DM Hall

DM Hall, the Scottish firm of independent chartered surveyors, has produced two new chartered surveyors from its graduate development...

New BDM for Kensington

Gemma Lang has joined Kensington as business development manager (BDM) for the North London...

New jobs at Target Group

Target Group has created over 250 new jobs. The planned expansion follows last week’s announcement...

ABI announces new chairman

Andy Briggs, CEO of Aviva UK Life and chairman of Aviva Global Life, has been...

Pepper hires regional manager for the north

Pepper Homeloans has appointed Ryan Brailsford as its regional development manager for the north...

P2P platform appoints former Aldermore heavyweight

Peer-to-peer lending platform CrowdProperty.com has announced the appointment of Mark Stephens as non-executive director....

Key hires for OneSavings Bank brands

OneSavings Bank has made a series of new appointments across its Kent Reliance, InterBay...

Vantage Finance appoints chairman

The former CEO of Aviva’s life insurance business has been appointed as chairman of...

BFS appoints UK risk director

Bibby Financial Services has appointed Ray Lowrey as UK risk director. First joining the business funder...

V Loans boosts bridging team

V Loans has appointed a business development manager and a case manager to its...

Septet joins second charge player

Second charge distributor Fluent Money has announced the appointment of seven new members of...

New commercial finance director for Together

Helga Wright has joined specialist lender Together as its commercial finance director. Wright (pictured) joins...

New regional account manager for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Joela Jenvey as regional account manager for the West and South West.  Jenvey...

Dragonfly appoints portfolio manager

Dragonfly Property Finance has hired David Dean as a portfolio manager in its development...

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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