Appointments

ERS completes senior management team

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has finalised its management team with the promotion of Graham Evans...

Ultimate Asset Finance makes two senior hires

Ultimate Asset Finance has announced the appointment of two regional directors. Michael Thompson (pictured, left) has previously acted as...

Bibby appoints group risk director

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Ian Ramsden as group risk director on a...

UTB makes new board appointment

United Trust Bank has announced the appointment of Jonathan Ayres as chief financial officer...

Scottish Widows appoints comms head

Scottish Widows has appointed Claire Burston to the position of head of communications. She joins...

Ultimate Construction Finance adds to team

Ultimate Construction Finance has expanded its team with the appointment of Glyn Jones as...

SBG hires head of lender relationships

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Jane Benjamin as head of lender relationships. ...

Signature Private Finance hires BDM

Signature Private Finance has announced the appointment of Parminder Bansal as its new business...

Dragonfly expands BDM team

Dragonfly Property Finance has added two more external business development managers (BDMs) to its...

New FCA boss appointed

Andrew Bailey has been appointed as the new permanent chief executive of the Financial...

FHL hires marketing manager

Emma Lightfoot has joined Foundation Home Loans as marketing manager. She joins the Bracknell-based specialist...

Bibby appoints international CEO

Bibby Financial Services has announced that Steven Box has become its international chief executive...

Kent Reliance hires national accounts head

OneSavings Bank has appointed Steve Seal as head of national accounts for its Kent...

Hope Capital hires Midlands BDM

Bridging lender Hope Capital has appointed a business development manager (BDM) who will focus on the...

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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