Roma Finance has announced eight new appointments and three promotions.

Alan Collins and Saffron Abbot have both joined the business development team, the former in the mid-South of England and the latter in the North of England and Scotland.

Collins (pictured, left) joins the business from Market Financial Solutions and is a bridging and commercial specialist while Abbot has a decade of significant property experience.

Kai Shahban has joined the RomaFLOW underwriting team, while Adam Bates has started as business architect. He joins the newly formed ‘change team’, reporting into Michael Allison (pictured, right), operations director.

The business has developed significantly and doubled the loan book in the past nine months. To continue this trajectory, a major focus has been placed on improving technology, processes and systems. Promotions have been made internally as part of the change team, Beth Brook (pictured, second from right) to business analyst, Jenny Gillies (pictured, second left) to engagement and HR specialist and Tina Parry to data quality lead.

In addition, Alisha Chu has joined sales support, Claire Taylor and Nicola Cox have both joined customer services & collections and Clare Greenhalgh has joined the executive team.

Allison said: “I am delighted to welcome every new Roma team member and am thrilled with the construction of the change team, developing people within the business to maximise their full potential.

“We love to lend and we are ongoing in our improvements to support our partners and borrowers and provide a truly more extraordinary experience.”