Appointments

Foundation appoints national account manager

Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Keith Jones as its new national...

UTB appoints bridging BDM for the North

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Gemma Roberts as business development manager (BDM) for...

54 promotions at Market Financial Solutions

Short-term lender Market Financial Solutions has promoted 54 members of staff. Its team has now...

New hires and promotions at Twenty7Tec

Twenty7tec has announced two new senior hires and a pair of internal promotions. Clive Beattie...

Royal London appoints new chair

Royal London has announced the appointment of Isabel Hudson as a non-executive director and...

Enness Global makes senior appointment for the Americas

Enness Global has appointed Mariel Maretti as its new head of the Americas. The firm...

New chief executive at the Co-operative Bank

Coventry Building Society has announced that Andrea Melville will join the group as chief...

Sirius Finance reports record quarterly performance

Sirius Finance has revealed its best quarterly performance in the final three months of...

Landwood Group secures new senior business adviser

Landwood Group has revealed that John Bevan is joining its advisory board. Bevan (pictured, left)...

New CEO for New Leaf Distribution

Daniel Hobbs has received FCA approval of his appointee as CEO of Essex-based network,...

Just Mortgages bolsters self-employed recruitment team

Just Mortgages has moved to strengthen its recruitment efforts with the appointment of Kara...

Rachel Geddes becomes MAB’s strategic partnerships director

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has made two new senior appointments. Rachel Geddes is to become...

SPF Private Clients opens office in Dubai

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has expanded its operations with the launch of an office...

Close Brothers Property Finance appoints MD for structured finance

Close Brothers Property Finance has announced the appointment of Chiara Caldwell to the newly...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

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...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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