Appointments

Skipton Financial Services appoints divisional distribution manager

Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has appointed Gareth Barlow as the company's divisional distribution manager...

Clayton Euro Risk creates new director role

Clayton Euro Risk has announced the appointed of Konstantine (Gus) Pastras to the newly...

Leeds Building Society appoints CIO

Leeds Building Society has appointed Tom Clark as chief information officer and general...

FCA appoints four new supervision directors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed four directors to lead key areas of...

Equity Release Council appoints COO

The Equity Release Council has appointed Donna Bathgate as its new chief operating officer...

The Source hires a pair of field-based BDMs

Source Insurance Ltd has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to its sales...

Rockstead hires ops manager

International financial services risk advisers and due diligence firm Rockstead has appointed Jane Bebb...

RBS appoints Hester’s replacement

Ross McEwan has been appointed as a director and group chief executive of The...

Chairman of Money Advice Service appointed

Andy Briscoe has been appointed chair of the Money Advice Service. A panel comprised...

Vizolution appoints business development director

Vizolution has hired Frank McCarthy as its business development director. McCarthy is tasked with...

New CEO for Hometrack

Hometrack has announced the appointment of Charles Bryant as chief executive officer. Bryant was most...

The Leeds appoints acquisition campaign manager

Leeds Building Society has appointed Yvonne McBrearty as its acquisition campaign manager. McBrearty...

The Teachers appoints finance & ops chief

Angela Evans has joined Teachers Building Society as its finance and operations director. Evans...

Complete FS adds to underwriting capability

Complete FS has recruited Becky Sidwell as a mortgage underwriter. She joins from Mortgages Made...

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

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...

Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...

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