Appointments

Nigel Payne joins board of distributor

Brightstar Financial has announced the appointment of Nigel Payne as non-executive director. Payne (pictured) has...

Sterling Capital Reserve strengthens team

Sterling Capital Reserve has appointed Greg Williams as commercial finance consultant. Williams, who has over...

Bridgebank Capital appoints new BDM

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Robert Heywood as a national business development...

Bridgebank appoints BDM for the home counties

Bridgebank Capital has appointed Adam Powell to its national business development team. He is tasked...

APFA appoints new director-general

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has today announced that Chris Hannant,...

MAB hires compliance chief

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has appointed Stewart Baker as its new compliance director. He...

Bridgebank appoints BDM for North West

Bridgebank Capital has appointed Jim Baker to its business development team. Baker has over...

Gateway appoints managing director

National surveying firm Gateway has appointed Pete Hughes to the position of managing director. ...

New non-exec director at the Darlington

Darlington Building Society has announced that Bob Cuffe has been appointed as a non-executive...

New face at Capital Bridging Finance

Capital Bridging Finance has expanded its administrative team with the appointment of a new...

Keystone appoints business manager

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has appointed Rob Field as business manager for the...

Clayton Euro Risk boss to leave

Clayton Euro Risk has announced that Tim Keast, its chief executive, will leave the...

Key promotion at Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank has announced the promotion of Karen Bennett to the position of sales...

Ageas appoints marketing chief for RIAS and Castle Cover

Ageas has appointed Mark Hanson as marketing director for its two over 50s insurance...

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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