Appointments

LendingCrowd hires business development head

Scottish peer-to-business crowdlender LendingCrowd has appointed Fraser Lusty as head of business development. Lusty (pictured) has...

Bibby hires BDM

The UK's largest invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services, has appointed Leicester based Thomas...

Dragonfly hires internal BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Daniel Murray as an internal business development manager. Murray joins...

Tony Ward to head up Clayton Euro Risk

Tony Ward has been appointed president and chief executive of Clayton Euro Risk. Meanwhile, former...

Openwork appoints new CEO

Openwork has announced the appointment of Mark Duckworth as chief executive officer (CEO). Duckworth (pictured) has...

APFA appoints senior policy adviser

The Association of Professional Advisers (APFA) has announced that Caroline Escott has been appointed to...

Ultimate Finance appoints regional director

Bristol-based Ultimate Finance Group has appointed Colin Chastey as regional director for the South...

Bibby appoints head of sales

Specialist funder Bibby Financial Services has appointed Robin Crouch as its head of sales...

Towergate appoints CEO of Paymentshield

Towergate Insurance has announced the appointment of Steve Wood as chief executive officer (CEO)...

Tim Gosden joins MGM Advantage

MGM Advantage has hired Tim Gosden as product manager. Tim Gosden will help manage and...

Ultimate Finance expands into Scotland

Ultimate Finance Group, which provides cashflow solutions to SMEs, is opening its first office...

Landbay bolsters board

Landbay has appointed Robert Burgess to its board of directors. He will join co-founders...

Shawbrook promotes commercial pair

Shawbrook Bank has announced two promotions within its commercial mortgages team. Sarah Woolf, previously business...

RBS posts £3.5bn loss

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a loss of £3.5 billion for 2014,...

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...

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