Appointments

New ASTL executive committee lineup revealed

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has elected its new executive committee.   Five...

Max Wright becomes PTFS chairman

Former CEO of Personal Touch Financial Services, Max Wright, has now now taken on his new...

Shawbrook hires London development manager

Marc Champ has been appointed as regional development manager for London by Shawbrook Bank’s...

LSL joins up management of networks

LSL Property Services has announced that Richard Coulson’s role as business development director of...

Chartered surveyor takes up RICS Scotland role

Eric Curran, managing partner of DM Hall LLP, a firm of chartered surveyors in...

Anna Bennett joins Positive Lending

Specialist packager Positive Lending has announced the appointment of Anna Bennett into the newly...

Former TMA marketing manager joins network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has revealed that former TMA marketing manager Lauren Bagley has...

Boardroom changes at Target

Target Group has announced a restructuring of its board to prepare the business for further growth...

L&G hires retirement market chief

Legal & General has appointed Andy Humphreys as its marketing director for individual retirement....

Seaholme promoted at Shawbrook

Gavin Seaholme has been promoted to the position of regional development manager for the...

Shawbrook appoints BDM for East Anglia

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has appointed Daryl Norkett as business development manager (BDM). He...

Hope Capital hires new BDM

Hope Capital has appointed a new business development manager. Paul Gammond joins the bridging lender...

Promise expands packaging department

Master broker Promise Solutions has appointed a new mortgage packaging manager. Helen Aston joins...

Metro Bank bolsters executive team with new hires

Metro Bank has made two new senior appointments to its leadership team. Ian...

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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