Appointments

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...

The Leeds appoints deputy finance director

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Stuart Whittle as its deputy finance director. Whittle...

New chair for IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has confirmed the re-election of its existing board...

Dragonfly hires ops manager and internal BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Hannah Mason as operations manager and Sam Wisker as...

Duo joins Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed two new members of staff to its broker facing teams. Davinia...

Mortgage Brain appoints sales and marketing boss

Mortgage Brain has appointed Roger Crocker as its new sales and marketing director. Previous roles...
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COMMENT

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...

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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...
Building Societies

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...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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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