Appointments

Borro strengthens BDM team

Borro, the personal asset lender, has boosted its intermediary development team with the addition...

Vertex in key business development hire

Vertex Financial Services has appointed Steve Stone as business development director as it looks...

Countrywide announces new chief executive

Alison Platt has been appointed as group chief executive of Countrywide plc, effective from...

Funding Circle expands business development team

Funding Circle reached a major milestone in the first quarter of this year, with...

Capital Bridging appoints CEO

Capital Bridging Finance Limited has appointed John Jenkins as CEO. Jenkins (pictured) joins Capital Bridging...

LV= establishes new R&D team

LV= has created a dedicated research and development team to develop new products and...

Exeter Family Friendly appoints chief actuary

Exeter Family Friendly has appointed David Cobley as its chief actuary in a newly...

Capital Advances hires experienced underwriter

Helen Farmer has joined Capital Advances to help service increased business levels from its...

Smart Money in compliance hire

Smart Money, the specialist second charge distributor, has appointed Phillip Bond as compliance director....

The Leeds expands intermediary team

Leeds Building Society has appointed an experienced financial services manager to its intermediary mortgage...

Crown joins IMLA

Crown Mortgage Management has become an associate member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. ...

Target makes key software hire

Target Group has announced the appointment of Christian Burrell as a software account director....

BSA chairman re-elected

David Cutter, group chief executive of the Skipton Building Society, has been elected as...

Bibby appoints head of sales

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Dan Burton as its head of sales for...

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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