Appointments

Optimum Finance appoints account executive

Bristol-based invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has appointed David Tugwell as an account executive...

MT Finance appoints managing director

MT Finance has announced the promotion of Gareth Lewis from commercial director to managing...

Leeds BS appoints head of intermediary partnerships

James O’Reilly has been promoted to head of intermediary partnerships at Leeds Building Society,...

Optimum Finance makes key sales hire

Bristol-based invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has appointed Amir Pournasrollahzadeh to lead its regional...

VAS Valuation appoints first risk manager

VAS Valuation Group has appointed senior high street bank specialist Alison Stevenson to the...

OMS appoints business relationship manager

One Mortgage System (OMS) has embarked upon a new recruitment campaign with the addition...

BFS makes three new hires

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has announced three new key appointments. Debbie Range, Adam Bluma and...

Envelop appoints head of sales

Envelop has announced the appointment of Matthew Clarke as head of sales. Clarke (pictured) has worked...

Hampshire Trust Bank appoints bridging BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Herbie Bone as a business...

Cynergy Business Finance appoints head of operations

Asset-based lending specialist, Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), has appointed Lorraine Udale as head of...

HTB appoints development finance senior portfolio manager

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Gavin Davies as senior portfolio manager within its...

Louisa Sedgwick to join Paragon Bank

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as commercial director of the...

Promotions at SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has created two new roles, providing internal promotions for Richard Merrett and...

Castle Trust Bank hires new regional account manager

Castle Trust Bank has added to its sales team and coverage with the recruitment...

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

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

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