Appointments

Market Harborough BS appoints new chief engagement officer

Market Harborough Building Society (MHBS) has appointed Lesley Vernon to the newly created executive...

HTB appoints City of London BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Serena Grewal as business development...

Louisa Sedgwick bolsters role at Paragon following restructure

Paragon Bank has announced a restructure of its buy-to-let mortgages sales function to improve...

MorganAsh makes senior appointments

MorganAsh, the provider of support services to the financial services sector, has added to...

UTB makes two bridging servicing appointments

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made two new appointments in its bridging servicing team. Adetayo...

Sarah Dix joins HTB as development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Sarah Dix as lending director within...

OMS appoints business relationship manager

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Graham Beckett as a business relationship manager. Beckett (pictured)...

Black & White Bridging appoints director of business development

Black & White Bridging has announced the appointment of bridging professional, Danny Power, as...

Time Finance appoints relationship manager

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Mike Cavanagh as relationship manager in its...

Reward makes strategy and programme director appointment

Reward Finance Group has appointed Sharon Ellis as its strategy and programme director. ...

Norton Group unveils new director of compliance

Norton Group has recruited Marc Howson as director of compliance. He is tasked with overseeing...

Graeme Wade joins Positive Lending

Positive Lending has announced the appointment of Graeme Wade. Wade (pictured) has over 20...

Catalyst appoints new servicing manager

Catalyst, the short-term property finance lender, has announced the appointment of Sophie Rose as...

Roma Finance bolsters underwriting team

Roma Finance has expanded its underwriting team following continuing demand for its bridging and...

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

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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