Appointments

Two new regional sales directors for First Complete

First Complete has appointed two new members of staff to its team of regional sales directors....

Scottish Widows Bank appoints new managing director

Martin Fleming has been appointed as the new managing director of Scottish Widows Bank. ...

New head for the Society of Mortgage Professionals

Lee Travis, who was appointed as the new head of professional development at the...

Shawbrook makes regional support appointment

Shawbrook Bank has recruited a new regional support executive. Lee Warne joins its commercial mortgages division with...

Gary Little joins TMA

Gary Little is to join TMA, the mortgage club of LSL financial services, at...

Brightstar expands commercial finance team

Brightstar Financial has appointed a new commercial finance specialist who will specialise in the...

Smart Money hires new underwriter

Master broker Smart Money has appointed Hannah Joyce as an underwriter in its regulated...

The Leeds makes change delivery hire

The Leeds Building Society has strengthened its change delivery team with the confirmation of...

Positive Lending increases headcount

Bournemouth-based packager Positive Lending has expanded its specialist finance adviser team with addition of...

New national account manager for TRM

Billy Hewitt is to join The Right Mortgage & Protection Network (TRM) as national...

Connect grows BDM team

Connect for Intermediaries has recruited Ed Maguire and Terry Singleton in new business development...

SBG appoints Mark Graves as sales director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Mark Graves to the position of sales director. Graves takes...

Charles Canning back at the helm at Accord

Accord Mortgages has announced the appointment of Charles Canning as managing director. He joined...

Former property ombudsman joins NAEA & ARLA

Christopher Hamer has joined the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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