Appointments

Bibby Asset Finance hires senior BDM

Bibby Asset Finance, the asset finance division of Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has announced...

SmartSearch appoints new strategic alliances manager

SmartSearch, a provider of digital compliance solutions, has appointed Ian Wright as its new...

Assetz Capital appoints NED

Assetz Capital has appointed David Allanson to its board as a non-executive director. Following...

Hampshire Trust Bank appoints another dev finance lending manager

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Russell Higgins as lending manager...

Atom bank appoints new chairman

Atom bank is to appoint Lee Rochford as its new chairman, subject to full...

Time Finance strengthen invoice finance team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Tariq Bourdouane as business development manager in...

Caroline Mirakian joins UTB

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Caroline Mirakian as sales & marketing director of...

HTB appoints development finance lending manager

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Harry Bhogal as lending manager...

Catalyst appoints marketing executive

Catalyst, the short-term property finance lender, has announced the appointment of Kate Haas as...

Hampshire Trust Bank makes asset finance appointment

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Mike Kilford as sales manager...

Time Finance expand invoice finance team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Thomas Ludden as business development manager in...

Alternative Bridging Corporation bolsters London sales team

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added its its sales team for London & South East,...

Two new appointments for Clever Lending

Clever Lending, the specialist finance packager and master broker, has announced the appointment of...

The Exeter’s healthcare distribution head joins AMII

Protection and health insurer, the Exeter, has announced that its head of healthcare distribution,...

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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