Appointments

Shawbrook promotes within STL team

Kim Wood has been promoted to the position of senior lending officer for Shawbrook’s...

Later Life Academy appoints chairman

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has announced the appointment of Bob Champion as its...

Chris Prior joins Bower Retirement Services

National equity release adviser Bower Retirement Services has appointed Chris Prior as its partnerships...

New Model Business Academy appoints new MD

New Model Business Academy (NMBA), the not-for-profit training and development division of The SimplyBiz...

Masthaven recruits savings head

Masthaven has announced the appointment of James Blower as its head of savings. Blower...

The Leeds appoints new non-executive director

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Gareth Hoskin as a non-executive director. He joins the Society’s board...

Masthaven Finance makes business development hires

Masthaven Finance has appointed Roz Cawood and Ginny Warby to its sales team. Cawood (pictured)...

Shawbrook promotes new regional development manager

Shawbrook Bank has announced the promotion of Steve Matthews to the role of regional...

Amicus poaches pair from Fincorp

Short-term lender Amicus has recruited Matthew Anderson and Nigel Alexander from Fincorp as regional...

PFS confirms professional development hire

Lee Travis has been appointed as the Personal Finance Society’s new head of professional...

LV= appoints managing director for GI

LV= has appointed Steve Treloar as managing director, general insurance.  He is expected to join...

Pair of new directors for PFS

The Personal Finance Society has confirmed the appointment of John White and Jonathan Rees to its board. White...

Oblix Capital hires head of credit

Bridging and development finance provider Oblix Capital has appointed Tom Reeve as head of credit....

New BDM for Funding 365

Bridging lender Funding 365 has expanded its team with the appointment of Dawn Trustam as...

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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