Appointments

Pepper UK appoints residential servicing MD

Pepper UK has promoted Gerry McHugh, its former chief operating officer, to the newly...

The Leeds expands its intermediary team

The Leeds Building Society has restructured its intermediary team. It will come under the leadership...

Nigel Payne to lead TFC Homeloans

Industry veteran Nigel Payne has joined specialist distributor TFC Homeloans as its managing director. In...

Precise hires pair of national sales managers

Precise Mortgages has expanded its sales team with the recruitment of two senior sales...

Saffron For Intermediaries hires telephone-based BDM

Saffron For Intermediaries has appointed Lewis Wheeler as a telephone-based business development manager. Wheeler (pictured)...

Bower Retirement Services appoints business development head

Equity release adviser firm Bower Retirement Services has appointed Georgina Oxton to the newly...

Ultimate Finance expands North East presence

Ultimate Finance has appointed David Paget to cover the North East. Paget (pictured), who...

Compliance First appoints managing director

Glasgow-based compliance and business support company Compliance First, which is part of the SimplyBiz...

Aldermore hires home counties relationship manager

Sarah McCawley has joined the residential mortgages team at Aldermore as a field-based relationship...

Peter Curran joins Countrywide plc

Countrywide plc has appointed Peter Curran to its financial services division, effective from 1...

Mortgage Brain appoints new national account manager

Mortgage Brain has appointed Chris Brown as one of its new national account managers. ...

Roz Cawood joins Lendinvest

Lendinvest has announced that Roz Cawood has joined as national account manager. She joins from...

Pepper hires CRE servicing head

Pepper UK has appointed Alison Higgs as head of commercial loan servicing. She will support...

Robert Owen joins United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has appointed industry veteran Robert Owen as director of specialist mortgages. ...

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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