West One Loans has appointed Duncan Abraham as its new regional director. The appointment comes as the lender looks to drive its operational expansion across the UK. Abraham, who has over 26 years of industry experience, joins West One from Together, where he held several operational and underwriting focused roles, most recently serving as underwriting operations director. In his new role, he will be responsible for driving the firm’s operations in strategic UK regions while managing and developing new relationships.

Yorkshire Building Society has launched a new range of fixed rate ISAs , including a one-year fix at 4.15%. Other accounts on offer by the lender include a two-year fix at 4.10%, a three-year fix at 4.05% and a five-year product at 4%. The fixed rate ISAs are available in branch, through agencies, through the post, online and via the society’s app. The launch of the new accounts come ahead of a large maturity period within the fixed rate cash ISA market, which will see £50bn coming to maturity between now and the end of May, according to CACI data.

Paul Gaynor and Louise Molloy have been appointed as commercial lending directors for the north west at Metro Bank. Gaynor brings over 36 years over banking experience to the role, with the last two decades spent in the corporate and commercial lending, most recently at NatWest. His new role will see him based in the bank’s Manchester store, where he will cover most of the north west. Molly brings over 15 years of lending and relationship management experience, also joining from NatWest. She will be responsible for supporting SMEs in all sectors across the region with debt requirements over £500,000.

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