Appointments

Blemain hires regional development director

Blemain Group has appointed Mark Rookyard as a new regional development director. Rookyard (pictured)...

FHL in new recruitment drive

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has recruited three new employees to join the administration and...

Optimal expands team

Optimal, the business protection and employee based solutions provider set up by Holloway Friendly, is...

New BDM for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Neil Elvish as business development manager (BDM) for the...

Ultimate Finance hires regional director

Ultimate Finance Group has appointed Gary Hawtin as regional director covering Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire...

Lee Carling joins West One Loans

West One Loans has appointed Lee Carling as head of collections. Carling has over 15 years’ experience...

Three new BDMs for Metro Bank

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of three new field-based business development managers (BDMs) as...

Trio joins Investec

Investec has made three appointments to its mortgage team. Robert Evans joins the professional mortgage team...

Positive Commercial Finance expands

Positive Commercial Finance has appointed Samantha Williamson as business development manager. She was previously with...

Complete FS strengthens broker support

Hampshire based packager distributor Complete FS has appointed Tammy Clark and Andy Ingram to...

FCA appoints new key roles

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Mark Steward as its new director of...

Direct Life seeks new apprentices

Direct Life is looking to take on three new apprentices to start work in...

Stephen Johnson promoted at Shawbrook

Stephen Johnson, managing director of Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division, has been promoted to...

FHL launches development team

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has established a sales development team under Paul Brett, director...
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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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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

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Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

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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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