Appointments

Ex-Ageas boss joins Uinsure

The former UK chief executive of Ageas has joined GI provider Uinsure. Barry Smith...

New hires for SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has appointed Hannah Keane and Brian Wills as it develops its face-to-face contact...

TMA appoints key account manager

TMA has announced the appointment of its latest key account manager.  This follows the recent news...

Paradigm hires partnership development manager

Paradigm Mortgage Services has appointed Neil Jackson as its new partnership development manager. Within...

National account hires for network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Aidan McCarthy and Philip Emanuel as...

Ultimate Finance builds team

Ultimate Finance has made another appointment in the North West. Sean Thomson (pictured) joins as...

Cupis begins work at Openwork 

Openwork has announced that John Cupis has now joined the network as mortgage director. Cupis, whose appointment...

The Ipswich makes four senior management appointments

The Ipswich Building Society has made four new appointments to its senior management team.  Ashley...

Shawbrook hires commercial mortgage product manager

Shawbrook Bank has announced the appointment of Steven Fitzhugh into the new role of product...

New BDM for Together

Together has expanded its regional sales team with the appointment of Laura Sneddon as...

Cirencester Friendly appoints two new non-executive directors

Cirencester Friendly has appointed Janice Banks and Marian Evans as non-executive directors. Banks has over...

Uinsure recruits new BDM

General insurance provider Uinsure has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) for Scotland and Northern...

Openwork appoints chief operating officer

Openwork has announce the appointment of Neil Milner as its chief operating officer (COO). He joins...

MTF hires head of new business

Bridging finance provider MTF has appointed James Anderson to the position of head of...

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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