Appointments

Towergate Health & Protection appoints head of consulting

Towergate Health & Protection has announced the appointment of Richard Jackson as head of...

Vida appoints national account manager

Vida has recruited Oliver Smith into the role of national account manager. Smith (pictured) has...

MFS appoints General Counsel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Ryan Magee as its new General Counsel. ...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints national account manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Phil Quinn as national account manager. The move...

Spring Finance hires head of sales for second charges

Spring Finance has appointed Paul Carley as its head of sales for second charge...

Chetwood Financial announces new group chair

Chetwood Financial has announced Ian Lonergan as its new group chair. Founded in 2016,...

HTB promotes Lorenzo Satchell to new role

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Lorenzo Satchell as sales director...

Tuscan Capital appoints sales director

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of Jaxon Stevens as its new sales director. Reporting...

Black Book Finance appoints Luke Crocker-Wilton

Luke Crocker-Wilton has joined Black Book Finance, to head up its specialist buy-to-let packaging...

Sales team promotions at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has announced a number of internal promotions within its sales team, including...

Independent Growth Finance appoints CEO

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has announced that John Onslow is stepping down as CEO...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints new CEO

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Richard Harrison as chief executive officer, subject to...

OMS appoints business partnership and growth director

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Melanie Spencer as its business partnership and growth...

Paragon Bank appoints development finance relationship director

Greg Dunne has been appointed relationship director in Paragon Bank’s development finance division. Dunne (pictured)...

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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