Appointments

Politicians appointed to Equity Release Council board

The Equity Release Council has appointed several senior politicians to its newly formed Advisory...

Three new hires for Enterprise

Enterprise Finance has made a trio of appointments. Paul Huxter joins Enterprise as a business...

Aldermore appoints regional sales manager

Sean Thomson has been appointed by Aldermore to the role of regional sales manager...

Metro Bank hires managing director for commercial banking

Metro Bank has appointed Jason Oakley as managing director of commercial banking. Oakley will be...

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)...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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