Appointments

Shawbrook appoints consumer finance MD

Evelyn Hamilton has today joined Shawbrook Group as its managing director of consumer finance. She joins Shawbrook...

New non-exec directors for Holloway Friendly

Income protection society Holloway Friendly has appointed two new non-executive directors (NEDs).   The appointments...

Commercial property specialist joins Birketts

Julie Hoy has joined the commercial property team at law firm Birketts as a...

Vizolution expands sales team

Vizolution has expanded its sales team with the appointment Michael Padmanathan, Alex Noble and Oli...

SimplyBiz Group appoints managing director of SIFA

David Ingram has been appointed as managing director of SIFA and joins the business...

New sales appointments at NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed two new area sales managers (ASMs) and added two...

Rockstead makes directorial appointment

Due diligence and audit firm Rockstead has recruited Andrew Salter in the newly created...

Two new mortgage hires at the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has appointed Jodie Claxton to the role of Mortgage Manager...

New hires for West One Loans

Bridging lender West One Loans has made two key appointments. Paul Simpson joins the...

Boost Capital appoints new BDM

Boost Capital has appointed Tom Fox as business development manager (BDM). He will be responsible...

Shawbrook appoints business finance MD

Shawbrook Group plc has announced that Simon Featherstone has joined as managing director of its business finance...

New hire at the Teachers

Martin Harvey has been recruited as the new senior mortgage adviser at the Teachers Building Society. Harvey (pictured)...

SMS appoints office manager

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has announced the appointment of Debbie Robson as office manager. Robson started...

The Source expands sales team

Source Insurance has recruited a business development manager (BDM) to cover the West and South...

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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