Appointments

Shawbrook appoints BDE for the South East

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has recruited Scott Apps as its new business development...

Important hire for Key Retirement Solutions

Billy Burrows has joined Key Retirement Solutions as associate director. Burrows will be the...

Arch promoted at the Saffron

Anita Arch has been promoted to the role of senior business development manager for...

Canada Life International hires risk head

Canada Life International has announced the appointment of Jonathan Hall as head of...

Kensington boosts intermediary team

Specialist lender Kensington is expanding its broker sales team, following its pledge to invest...

Aldermore appoints pair of non-execs

Aldermore has appointed two non-executive directors to its board. John Hitchins is a...

New BDM for the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has appointed Stuart Bryce as business development manager (BDM). Bryce...

Board appointment for Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group plc has announced the appointment of Simon Henry as an independent...

MSL strengthens underwriting team

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has appointed Krystle Clark to its underwriting department. Clark has 12...

The Saffron hires lending manager

Saffron Building Society has appointed Richard Clare as lending manager. He has responsibility for assessing...

Pepper UK appoints CFO

Pepper UK, the mortgage servicer formerly known as Oakwood Global Finance, has appointed Warren...

xit2’s Blackwell joins eTech

Mark Blackwell is to become the new director of lending and surveying services at...

The Cambridge appoints head of risk

The Cambridge Building Society has appointed Victoria Stubbs as head of risk. Stubbs...

United Trust Bank makes sales appointment

United Trust Bank has appointed Nick Warren as a business development manager in...

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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