Appointments

Funding Circle expands intermediary development team

Funding Circle has appointed Laura Kinghorn to the role of business development manager (BDM)...

Rockstead makes three key appointments

Rockstead has made three appointments. The new hires come as part of its expansion...

Karen Hedges joins First Complete

Karen Hedges has been hired by First Complete as its mortgage manager. She will start...

Just Retirement appoints business development director

Dominic Holmes has joined Just Retirement as business development director. He will lead the team...

Provident Financial appoints non-exec

Stuart Sinclair is to join the board of Provident Financial plc as an independent...

Paragon appoints new non-exec

Fiona Clutterbuck has joined the board of the Paragon Group of Companies as a...

New face at Dragonfly

Caroline Beer has joined the sales support team at Dragonfly Property Finance. She was previously...

Alex Maddox joins Acenden

Alex Maddox has joined UK and Ireland mortgage servicing specialist Acenden as director of...

Xit2 appoints new BDM

Xit2 has hired Ian Shaw as national business development manager. He joins from HML, where...

Vertex poaches business development head from HML

Mark Webster has joined Vertex Financial Services as its director of business development. Webster (pictured)...

Mortgages for Business welcomes back old face

Paul Martins has re-joined Mortgages for Business following a three year hiatus. He left the...

HML appoints COO

Bob Andrews has been hired as chief operating officer (COO) for HML. He will have...

New recruits to Practitioner Panel

The Financial Services Practitioner Panel has appointed a deputy chairman and two new members. The...

HML hires compliance head

HML has appointed Martin Berry as head of compliance. Berry joins from KPMG where...

COMMENT

36 more pay cheques before you’re made redundant

Imagine getting that email in your inbox first thing this morning! I tell you what: for the sake of another thought-provoking, rib-jabbing article, let's pretend...

What could shape buy-to-let in 2026 and the impact for advisers

As we move slowly into 2026, the buy-to-let market feels more settled than it has for some time. That does not mean it is...

If pets are protected, why not families?

I’ve heard many advisers say that protection insurance has ‘gone to the dogs’, but it appears that this viewpoint is literal as opposed to...

2026 will see the normalisation of AI across the mortgage industry

As we look ahead to 2026, there is one word that sits at the heart of how I feel about the mortgage industry: opportunity....

Starting well is easy… staying well is the work

January often arrives with good intentions. Fresh starts. New habits. A quiet promise to ourselves that this year will be different. And for many people,...

Latest news

Access FS appoints new training and competency manager

Access Financial Services has appointed Sue O’Brien as its new training and competency manager,...

Recognise Bank underlines Scotland lending appetite with Aberdeen student deal

Recognise Bank has completed a £1.96 million commercial property loan to support the refinance...

International buyers hold 203,000 homes

Almost 203,000 homes across England and Wales are owned by international homeowners, with London...

Warm Homes Plan increases pressure on self-managing landlords

The government’s renewed focus on energy efficiency in the private rented sector is expected...

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