Appointments

Dragonfly hires ops manager and internal BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Hannah Mason as operations manager and Sam Wisker as...

Duo joins Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed two new members of staff to its broker facing teams. Davinia...

Mortgage Brain appoints sales and marketing boss

Mortgage Brain has appointed Roger Crocker as its new sales and marketing director. Previous roles...

Shawbrook promotes within STL team

Kim Wood has been promoted to the position of senior lending officer for Shawbrook’s...

Later Life Academy appoints chairman

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has announced the appointment of Bob Champion as its...

Chris Prior joins Bower Retirement Services

National equity release adviser Bower Retirement Services has appointed Chris Prior as its partnerships...

New Model Business Academy appoints new MD

New Model Business Academy (NMBA), the not-for-profit training and development division of The SimplyBiz...

Masthaven recruits savings head

Masthaven has announced the appointment of James Blower as its head of savings. Blower...

The Leeds appoints new non-executive director

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Gareth Hoskin as a non-executive director. He joins the Society’s board...

Masthaven Finance makes business development hires

Masthaven Finance has appointed Roz Cawood and Ginny Warby to its sales team. Cawood (pictured)...

Shawbrook promotes new regional development manager

Shawbrook Bank has announced the promotion of Steve Matthews to the role of regional...

Amicus poaches pair from Fincorp

Short-term lender Amicus has recruited Matthew Anderson and Nigel Alexander from Fincorp as regional...

PFS confirms professional development hire

Lee Travis has been appointed as the Personal Finance Society’s new head of professional...

LV= appoints managing director for GI

LV= has appointed Steve Treloar as managing director, general insurance.  He is expected to join...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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