Appointments

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...

New Cambridge BS chairman

Jonathan Spence has been appointed as chairman of the Cambridge Building Society. This appointment follows...

New chairman for Teachers’ Building Society

Roy Spragg has been confirmed as chairman of Teachers’ Building Society following the...

Borro hires business development director

Borro, the personal asset lender, has announced the appointment of David Hardy as business...

BDM hire for Intelligent Loans

Intelligent Loans has appointed Katherine Simmons as its business development manager. Simmons has over 10 years’...

Important hire for Bibby

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed former Lloyds Commercial Finance Client and Collateral Management...

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

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...

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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