Appointments

New president for Personal Finance Society

David Thomas was named as the new Personal Finance Society president for 2014/15 at...

New member for the ASTL

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has recruited new member Market Financial Solutions....

New face at Hope Capital

Hope Capital has recruited a new business development manager, Danny Power. This is...

Signature Private Finance reveals pair of hires

Short-term property finance provider Signature Private Finance has made two new appointments. Nigel Robbins, who...

Paymentshield adds to senior management team

Towergate Insurance has appointed Lee Mooney to the new role of product, marketing and...

ASTL appoints new executive committee

The Association of Short Term Lenders’ (ASTL) has appointed its new executive committee. Three...

Ageas hires new commercial underwriting head

Ageas Insurance has announced the appointment of Cathy Taylor to the position of head...

Jason Neale joins TMP Sherwins

Affordable housing broker TMP Sherwins has appointed Jason Neale as a sales director. ...

CML welcomes new associate member

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has announced that BlackRock has joined as an...

New lending officer for Shawbrook’s commercial team

Shawbrook Bank has hired Joanna Hatch as a lending officer in its commercial...

Apprentice #2 for Complete FS

Complete FS has announced the appointment of its second apprentice in a scheme which...

Alpha Bridging recruits chairman

Short-term lender Alpha Bridging has announced the appointment of Kenneth Hillen as chairman. Hillen has...

Shawbrook appoints lending manager

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Kynan Benjamin as a lending manager in the commercial...

SortRefer hires ops manager

Online conveyancing portal SortRefer has appointed Annabel Halhead to the role of operations manager. Halhead...

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...

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