Appointments

Funding Circle expands business development team

Funding Circle reached a major milestone in the first quarter of this year, with...

Capital Bridging appoints CEO

Capital Bridging Finance Limited has appointed John Jenkins as CEO. Jenkins (pictured) joins Capital Bridging...

LV= establishes new R&D team

LV= has created a dedicated research and development team to develop new products and...

Exeter Family Friendly appoints chief actuary

Exeter Family Friendly has appointed David Cobley as its chief actuary in a newly...

Capital Advances hires experienced underwriter

Helen Farmer has joined Capital Advances to help service increased business levels from its...

Smart Money in compliance hire

Smart Money, the specialist second charge distributor, has appointed Phillip Bond as compliance director....

The Leeds expands intermediary team

Leeds Building Society has appointed an experienced financial services manager to its intermediary mortgage...

Crown joins IMLA

Crown Mortgage Management has become an associate member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. ...

Target makes key software hire

Target Group has announced the appointment of Christian Burrell as a software account director....

BSA chairman re-elected

David Cutter, group chief executive of the Skipton Building Society, has been elected as...

Bibby appoints head of sales

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Dan Burton as its head of sales for...

New Cambridge BS chairman

Jonathan Spence has been appointed as chairman of the Cambridge Building Society. This appointment follows...

New chairman for Teachers’ Building Society

Roy Spragg has been confirmed as chairman of Teachers’ Building Society following the...

Borro hires business development director

Borro, the personal asset lender, has announced the appointment of David Hardy as business...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Latest news

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost?...

MIMHC makes final call as charity lunch nears capacity

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has made a final call for industry...

Virgin Money to move eligible product transfers to Nationwide from October

Virgin Money is changing its residential product transfer process, with some customers whose deals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

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