Appointments

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...

Ageas Protect appoints head of marketing and propositions

Ageas Protect has announced the appointment of Steve Casey to the role of head...

Directorial appointment at Openwork

Openwork has appointed Billy Hewitt as its new recruitment director for Scotland. Hewitt will...

Aldermore appoints regional sales manager

Craig Stritch has been appointed as south west regional sales manager for Aldermore's invoice...

Duo added to Equity Release Council board

The Equity Release Council has appointed Liz Barclay and Jim Dredge as standards board...

Aldermore hires ops director for invoice finance

Aldermore Invoice Finance has appointed Lisa Cleaver as its operations director. She is based in...

COMMENT

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...

The FCA has made the case for holistic mortgage advice

Last Thursday, the head of the FCA stood up at the JP Morgan Pensions and Savings Symposium and dropped a line that deserves more...

Technology’s biggest challenge is not the one you think

There is a version of the mortgage technology story that gets told at conferences and in trade press with some regularity. It involves platforms, disruption...

Latest news

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...

NatWest begins digital mortgage completions with PEXA rollout

NatWest is now actively transacting on PEXA’s digital property platform, marking a key step...

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