Appointments

Personal touch appoints senior GI manager

Personal Touch has appointed Victoria Jefferies to the position of senior GI manager. Jefferies has...

Two new board members at AMI

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has added two new broker members to its...

Shawbrook Bank appoints savings chief

Shawbrook Bank has appointed James Blower as its new director of savings. He...

Shawbrook hires pair of commercial BDMs

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial lending business has appointed Richard Angell and Ian Hoggart as business...

The Loans Engine appoints marketing manager

Secured loan master broker The Loans Engine has appointed Millie Dyson as its marketing...

Personal Touch appoints non-executive director

Personal Touch has announced the appointment of Mark Wadelin as a new non-executive director. Formerly...

Nigel Payne joins BuildLoan

BuildStore Financial Services has appointed Nigel Payne as associate director to its broker division,...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints non-executive director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced the appointment of Nick Criticos to its...

Fincorp boosts broker sales team

Fincorp has hired Gary Playle as business development manager. His appointment comes as the bridging...

Xit2 hires commercial director

Stuart Webster has been appointed commercial director at xit2. Webster comes to the mortgage...

MAB appoints key account director

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has appointed Simon Hendy as its key account director. He will...

New hire for Keystone

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has appointed Julie Priest as its business manager...

Funding Circle grows intermediary team

Peer-to-peer business lender Funding Circle is expanding its intermediary development team with the appointments...

First Complete appoints new area compliance manager

Ian Ibbertson has joined the First Complete network as an area compliance manager from...

COMMENT

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,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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