Appointments

New national account manager at the Right DA Club

The Right DA Club has announced the appointment of a new national account manager. Gary...

Optimum Finance appoints senior relationship manager

Optimum Finance has appointed Mike Jones as a senior relationship manager (RM) as the...

Legal & General Mortgage Club bolsters management team

Legal & General Mortgage Club has appointed Michelle Westley as propositions manager and Stephen...

Royal London appoints specialist protection distribution team head

Royal London has appointed Jon Fuller as head of specialist protection distribution to lead...

Pure Retirement hires new regional intermediary sales support

Pure Retirement has added new regional intermediary sales support to lifetime mortgage advisers as...

Black & White Bridging appoints lending manager

Specialist lender Black & White Bridging has appointed Jess Caton as lending manager. Caton (pictured)...

Time Finance adds relationship manager to invoice finance team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Ian Shaw as relationship manager. Shaw (pictured)...

Countrywide Surveying Services announces two promotions

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced a double promotion to bolster its senior management...

Roma Finance appoints business development manager

Roma Finance has appointed Claudine Reynolds as business development manager (BDM) for the North. ...

Envelop appoints MD and head of operations

Envelop has announced two promotions within its senior management team to fill the newly...

Time Finance appoints asset manager

Time Finance has welcomed Matthew Ridgley to the team as asset manager. Ridgley (pictured) joins...

New appointment to expand Cumberland BS distribution

The Cumberland Building Society has appointed a new head of intermediary lending as it...

Canada Life appoints managing director of retirement

Canada Life has appointed Tom Evans to the position of managing director of retirement. Evans...

Connect appoints new relationship manager

Connect for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Tom White as its new relationship...

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

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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...

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