Appointments

Metro Bank appoints mortgage distribution chief

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Charles Morley as its head of mortgage...

Masthaven Secured Loans appoints underwriting manager

Masthaven has appointed Sarah Phillips as underwriting manager for its secured loans business. Phillips’s appointment...

Stephen Smith assumes control of L&G Mortgage Club

Legal & General Network has made changes to its management team, with two new...

Complete FS expands head office team

Complete FS has announced the appointment of a new mortgage and loan underwriter to...

Maeve Ward to head up Shawbrook’s seconds

Shawbrook Bank has revealed that Maeve Ward has been promoted to sales director for...

Mark Snape joins Magellan Homeloans

Mark Snape has been appointed as managing director of lending for Magellan Homeloans. Snape joins...

CML reveals new chairman

Stephen Noakes, mortgages director at Lloyds Banking Group, will become the new chairman of...

Vizolution director appointed to CXPA UK Board of Ambassadors

Marcio Rodrigues, customer propositions director at Vizolution has been appointed to the Customer Experience Professionals...

New face at Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed Rachael Kearn to its enquiries help desk. The national intermediary packager...

KRS appoints group marketing chief

Key Retirement Solutions has announced the appointment of Tony Kane as group marketing director. He...

UTB hires solicitor to boost bridging team

United Trust Bank has recruited banking lawyer William Gould into its bridging division....

Board hire at the Mansfield

Ian Rowling, the ex-chief executive of the Nottingham Building Society, has been appointed by...

Lloyds Banking Group announces new chairman

Lloyds Banking Group has announced that Lord Blackwell will succeed Sir Winfried Bischoff as...

Santander establishes new mortgages division

Santander has announced the appointment of Miguel Sard as managing director of its newly...

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,...

Latest news

Mortgage submissions surge as advisers rush to secure rates amid market volatility

Mortgage submissions rose sharply in the wake of geopolitical tensions, as brokers moved quickly...

MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...

Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...

RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...

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