Appointments

New business development hires for Funding 365

Specialist bridging finance provider Funding 365 has made two new business development appointments. Brian West...

Aegon UK appoints protection director

Aegon UK has made changes to its protection business. Dougy Grant (pictured), previously retail strategy...

Santander makes key commercial appointment

Santander Corporate & Commercial has appointed Andrew Whelan as managing director of regional real...

Tenet appoints technical services chief

Tenet Group has welcomed Ben Wright into the new role of head of technical...

Golding promoted at Bibby

Invoice finance provider Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has restructured its sales team with the...

TSB chairman revealed

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the appointment of Will Samuel as the chairman of...

Crystal Mortgages appoints managing director

Crystal Mortgages has promoted Joe Breeden to the position of managing director. Breeden (pictured)...

SimplyBiz Group makes board appointment

SimplyBiz Group has announced the appointment of Tim Trotter as a non-executive director with...

Capital Bridging Finance hires senior underwriter

Capital Bridging Finance has welcomed Robin Turnbull as a senior underwriter to its underwriting...

Appointment news at Holloway Friendly

Holloway Friendly has announced the appointment of two new staff from Lutine Assurance. The protection...

Aldermore appoints mortgage ops chief

Aldermore has appointed Jason Davies as operational director for its group mortgages division. He...

HML appoints Ireland boss

HML has appointed David Kelly as managing director of its Irish operations. He will...

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages hires pair of BDMs

Two Shawbrook Bank Business Development Managers (BDMs) have started work in the South...

Prestige expands underwriting team

Prestige Finance has announced the appointment of underwriting personnel to support its planned growth...

COMMENT

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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

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More than half of new lifetime mortgage customers were under 70 in 2025

More than half of new lifetime mortgages arranged last year were taken out by...

StreamBank joins The Right Mortgage & Protection Network panel

StreamBank has joined The Right Mortgage & Protection Network’s lender panel, giving the network's...

Twenty7tec links LMS Select with Research platform to simplify conveyancing process

Twenty7tec has integrated LMS Select into its Research platform, aiming to streamline the journey...

LHV Bank unveils interim director of retail banking

LHV Bank has appointed Alex Beavis as interim director of retail banking as it...

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