Appointments

New member for the Monetary Policy Committee

George Osborne has announced the appointment of Michael Saunders as an external member of...

New board appointments at Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has announced the appointment of Sharon Marshall and Suzanne Green to its...

Key promotion at Ultimate Finance

Ultimate Finance has announced that Richard Waldman has been promoted to group sales director...

Board change at OneSavings Bank

Malcolm McCaig, independent non-executive director of OneSavings Bank plc (OSB), will be stepping down...

The Source appoints BDM

Source Insurance has announced the appointment of David Carr as business development manager for...

New deputy governor for the BoE

Sam Woods has been appointed deputy governor for the Bank of England with responsibility...

Uinsure appoints BDM

Uinsure has appointed former Paymentshield regional sales manager Helen Linnen as its business development...

The Mortgage Lender hires head of sales

The Mortgage Lender has appointed Paula Priest, a former sales and relationship manager with...

Belmont Green hires sales director for seconds

New mortgage lending operation Belmont Green Finance Limited has recruited Simon Burnell as its director of...

Five new BDMs for NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed five new business development managers (BDMs). Three of the BDMS...

Trio of promotions at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has announced three internal staff promotions with the creation of new roles. Mark Whitear...

New group chief executive for loan broker

Freedom Finance has announced the appointment of Brian Brodie as its new group chief...

New internal BDM for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has announced that February was its largest month ever for Agreements...

Vantage Finance establishes business development team

Vantage Finance has set up a dedicated business development team as it seeks to grow...

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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