Appointments

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)...

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...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Latest news

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

Quantum Mortgages promotes Mihramane and Ajaib

Quantum Mortgages has made two internal promotions across its sales and completions teams as...

Complex incomes hindering aspiring Scottish buyers

More than half of Scottish adults with complex incomes who do not own a...

MAB adds three senior hires across marketing, finance and technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau has strengthened its executive team with three senior appointments spanning marketing,...

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