Appointments

New Complaints Commissioner appointed

The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced the appointment...

Non-exec hire for TSB Bank

TSB Bank has confirmed the appointment, subject to regulatory approval, of Mark Fisher as...

Pepper UK creates COO role

Pepper UK, the mortgage servicer formerly known as Oakwood Global Finance, has promoted Gerry...

FCA appoints pair of senior advisers

David Saunders and Gunner Burkhart have been appointed as senior advisers at the Financial...

Underwriting hire for Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed Trudy Kane to its underwriting team. Kane has 13 years' financial...

UTB hires HR chief

United Trust Bank has appointed Georgie Reisser-Weston as head of human resources. Reisser-Weston (pictured)...

NatWest IS appoints BDM pair

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs). The appointments have been...

New hire for Norton Broker Services

Norton Broker Services has recruited Andrew Bonner to join Neil Organ and Lee Schofield...

Sturgess joins Magellan

Magellan Homeloans has appointed Jon Sturgess as its new head of sales. Sturgess (pictured)...

Brian Baker joins Hope Capital

Hope Capital has appointed Brian Baker to the newly created position of head of...

Shawbrook makes commercial mortgage appointment

Matthew Woods has been appointed as junior sales executive in Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgage...

Shawbrook hires STL manager

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has recruited Andy Thurston to the position of short...

Nemo MD steps down

Phil Jones, managing director of Nemo Personal Finance, has stepped down after nine years. The...

Dragonfly appoints COO

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Marc Harris as its new chief operating officer (COO)....

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...

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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...

Together strengthens intermediary team with senior account manager hire

Together has added further experience to its broker-facing team, with Annie Crust bringing more...

Project 28 Charter opens membership to widen push for faster property transactions

The Project 28 Charter has opened membership to organisations across the property transaction chain...

Tembo appoints James Young to lead data and insights

Tembo has appointed James Young as director of data and insights as the savings...

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