Appointments

New CEO for Signature Private Finance

Short-term lender Signature Private Finance has announced Tony Gilbertson as its new CEO. Gilbertson (pictured) undertook the...

Aegon UK appoints CFO

Aegon UK has appointed Stephen McGee as its chief financial officer (CFO). He has held...

TML appoints senior team pair

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has announced a number of new appointments including two senior...

Ultimate Finances hires regional director

Ultimate Finance has appointed Neil Curtis as regional director of Asset Finance in its...

Castle Trust appoints East Anglia BDM

Castle Trust has recruiting a business development manager (BDM) for the East Anglia region. Mark Stephenson’s territory...

Senior hire for e.surv

Katie Boyes-Barker has been appointed as customer proposition manager for private survey services at...

Key Retirement appoints deputy CEO

Key Retirement Group has promoted Simon Thompson to the newly-created position of deputy CEO. Thompson...

New recruits from Shawbrook graduate scheme

Shawbrook Bank has announced the arrival of three new hires to its commercial mortgages...

New BDM for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has recruited Steve Grant as a new property finance business...

Mint Bridging hires marketing head

Mint Bridging has announced the appointment of Amparo Burgos as its head of marketing. She has...

The Nationwide cuts fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society has reduced selected fixed, tracker and shared equity rates by up to...

New chief executive for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Mike Regnier as its new...

New vice-chairman for the Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Tony Morgan as its new...

LendInvest hires VP for compliance

LendInvest has appointed Willem Wellinghoff as vice-president of compliance. Wellinghoff (pictured) is responsible for leading...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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