Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has made four new appointments to its bridging team.

Nathan Wilson, who has spent the last 10 years at United Trust Bank, has been appointed as senior underwriter, and as part of the role will be tasked with building relationships with key partners and helping to increase the volume of business written.

Olivia Colmer-Lynch has joined the bridging team from specialist mortgages at HTB, where she worked for over four years.

She has taken on the role of senior lending manager, where she will also oversee the processing team and lead communication between sales and underwriting within the department.

Ella Hosier has also joined as lending manager, having spent more than eight years in the mortgage and finance sector, most recently as a case manager at MT Finance.

The final recruit is Barry Ireland, who will take on the role of business development manager for the South East and Midlands area. He will join from Castle Trust, where he was a regional account manager.

Director of bridging at HTB, Jamie Jolly, said: "A very warm welcome to Wilson, Colmer-Lynch, Hosier and Ireland, a huge amount of talent, quality and experience joining the bridging team here at HTB.

"We constantly strive to be better and have strong lines of communication with our broker partners, we listen to feedback and we act on it. Having access to commercially minded and proactive teams is crucial. We’ve established a terrific reputation within the bridging market for providing a peerless level of service, and that’s because of our people.

"With the addition of Wilson, Colmer-Lynch, Hosier and Ireland, we are continuing to build out a dedicated team of bridging specialists, enabling us to deliver for an even greater number of brokers and borrowers. Growing demand for bridging finance needs to be matched with lenders that can grow effortlessly too, with the right people, and these four new recruits are how we’ll do just that."

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