Appointments

Target Group appoints CFO

Target Group has announced the appointment of Ian Larkin as chief financial officer...

Aldermore hires lending team manager

Aldermore has appointed Craig Farmer as its centralised lending team manager with responsibility for...

Ageas Retail CEO quits

Mark Cliff, CEO of Ageas Retail, has resigned and will join Brightside as executive...

Berkeley Alexander hires new sales manager

Berkeley Alexander has announced the appointment of David Browne as its new sales manager....

Connect Mortgage Club appoints new compliance manager

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has appointed Paul Simons as the network's compliance manager. Simons previously...

New BDM for Broker Conveyancing

Broker Conveyancing has announced the appointment of Steve Emblem as a new business development...

Jon King joins Bower Retirement Services

Equity release adviser firm Bower Retirement Services has announced the arrival of Jon King...

Cirencester Friendly appoints marketing head

Rebecca Young has been promoted by Cirencester Friendly to the role of head of...

John Prust returns

John Prust has joined LendInvest as head of sales and marketing for its lending...

New head of sales for Select & Protect parent

Affinity and financial intermediary insurance provider, Hood Group, has appointed Alison Haines to the...

Dragonfly hires residential development head

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Gavin Eustace as its head of residential development. Eustace joins...

Engage Mutual hires commercial sales manager

Engage Mutual has appointed Liz Timms as its commercial sales manager. She is tasked with...

Kelsey Edge joins Aldermore

Aldermore Bank has hired Kelsey Edge as a relationship manager in its residential mortgages...

The Mansfield hires commercial development executive

The Mansfield Building Society has appointed Audrey Green to the new position of commercial...

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

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

PROFILES