Appointments

HSBC’s UK CEO to chair Practitioner Panel

Antonio Simoes, chief executive officer for HSBC in the UK is to become chair of...

Clever Lending moves into bridging and commercial finance

Secured loans master broker Clever Lending has appointed Steve Sanderson to expand into commercial...

TFC appoints chief technical officer

TFC Homeloans has appointed Dan Brown as its chief technical officer. Brown will have full...

ThinCats recruits head of risk and recoveries

Peer to peer business lender ThinCats has appointed Jill Sandford as head of risk...

Bridger hires internal BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Charlotte Williams as an internal business development manager . She...

Barclays announces Andy Gray’s replacement

Andy Gray is to leave his role as managing director of mortgages at Barclays...

Sandringham Financial Partners appoints CEO

Sandringham Financial Partners has announced the appointment of Tim Sargisson as CEO.  Sargisson (pictured) is the former...

New non-exec director for the Teachers

Ian Grayson has joined the board of directors at the Teachers Building Society as a...

Former Sesame CEO joins RBS/NatWest

George Higginson has joined the RBS/NatWest mortgage business. Higginson (pictured) was most recently CEO of...

UTB hire to spearhead technology finance offering

United Trust Bank has appointed Ken Archbold to support the launch of a new...

FCA chief executive quits

Martin Wheatley is to stand down as chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority...

New BDM for Brightstar

Brightstar has appointed a new business development manager for its operations in London. Christina Smith...

New associate member for the ASTL

Law firm Moore Blatch has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as...

FHL hires new account manager

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Colin Dorman as regional account manager for the South...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

PROFILES