Appointments

Trio of BDMs joins NatWest Intermediary Solutions

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed three new field-based business development managers (BDMs). Lisa Taylor will...

Shawbrook expands commercial sales team

Shawbrook Bank has recruited Rob Holt as a junior sales executive to its commercial...

New chairman for the ABI

Paul Evans, group chief executive of AXA UK, has been nominated by the board...

Brightstar Financial recruits mortgage director

Brightstar Financial has hired Chris Bramham as director of mortgages. He will be responsible...

Spencer Gale joins Magellan

Magellan Homeloans has appointed Spencer Gale as regional sales manager with responsibility for the...

Gary Little joins Society of Mortgage Professionals

Gary Little has been confirmed as the new head of operations & membership at...

Aldermore appoints regional sales manager for West Yorkshire

Aldermore has added to its invoice Finance sales team with the appointment of...

Castle Trust appoints head of sales

Castle Trust has promoted Alex Upton to the position of head of mortgage...

Andrew Freeley joins HML subsidiary

HML has appointed Andrew Freeley as managing director of Specialist Mortgages Services (SMS), an...

New head of sales for Shawbrook

Shawbrook Bank has promoted Emma Cox to the position of head of sales...

The Leeds welcomes old face back to intermediary team

Parveen Kumari has re-joined Leeds Building Society’s intermediary mortgage team as corporate account manager. The...

New president for ARLA

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) has announced the appointment of Valerie Bannister...

NAEA appoints new president

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has announced the appointment of Simon Gerrard...

Hope Capital hires HR specialist

Hope Capital has appointed its second new member of support staff in the past...

Latest POLL

COMMENT

Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

Latest news

Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...