Appointments

Masthaven hires group financial controller

Inge Valkenburg has joined Masthaven as its group financial controller. Valkenburg (pictured) joins the London-based...

Tesco Underwriting appoints chief underwriting officer

Darren McCauley has been appointed as the new chief underwriting officer at Tesco Underwriting...

Board changes at Perspective

Perspective Financial Group has promoted two members of staff to board level and established...

FSA approves Tenet appointment

Tenet has confirmed the appointment of Caroline Bradley as group finance director, following FSA...

New chairman for CML

Nigel Terrington has become chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). He replaces...

First Complete appoints regional sales director

First Complete has appointed David Bartley as a regional sales director. Bartley will...

Five appoints for HSBC Commercial

HSBC has made five new appointments within its Derbyshire and East Staffordshire commercial team. The...

Bridgebank Capital grows business development team

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Trupti Edwards in a new role as...

New senior BDM for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has appointed Maria Magnussen to the position of senior business development...

Aldermore hires regional sales director

Aldermore has appointed Dan Summerfield as northern regional sales director of its invoice finance...

Two new non-executive directors join the FSCS board

The FSA has appointed two new non-executive directors to the Board of the Financial...

MCIFA appoints senior partner

London-based high net worth property finance firm MCIFA has appointed Nick Rees as a...

Aldermore promotes invoice finance trio

Aldermore has promoted three of its key personnel Nick Smith, John Dodsworth and Ross...

Mayfair Bridging makes UCIS-related hire

Bridging lender Mayfair Bridging has appointed Jamie Bleakley as its head of sales and...

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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