Atom bank has strengthened its commercial business development team with the appointments of Jayne McCann and Sean Thorn.
McCann brings experience as a business development manager (BDM), and joins from Coventry Building Society. In her new role as commercial BDM, she will be responsible for building and strengthening relationships with brokers in her region.
Thorn has also been appointed as a commercial BDM. He boasts extensive experience in both business development and commercial broking, including more than a decade at Aldermore Bank, as well as running his own commercial finance brokerage business.
Commercial Trust has been added to Paradigm Mortgage Services’ panel.
The new relationship will give Paradigm member firms and their advisers access to the specialist mortgage and finance broker’s proposition, covering buy-to-let mortgages, commercial mortgages, bridging loans and development finance.
Its BTL proposition includes standard and specialist cases for first-time and experienced landlords, lending in personal and limited company names, HMO and MUB finance, holiday lets, portfolio landlords, plus second charge mortgages.
CHL Mortgages has appointed Kay Richardson as its new head of sales.
She brings more than 25 years’ experience from across the mortgage and financial services sector to the role, having begun her career as a mortgage broker. Richardson has held roles at Hampshire Trust Bank and Molo.
Most recently, she held the position of national account manager at Together, where she was responsible for developing relationships with mortgage networks and clubs.
Monmouthshire Building Society has successfully completed the migration of its £1.36bn mortgage book from Mutual Vision to the Phoebus servicing product.
The migration is the latest phase of the society’s core transformation, which will also deliver the migration of its savings portfolio onto Phoebus as part of the final phase.
The successful migration was completed over a weekend and was made up of over 18,000 open and closed mortgage accounts, which included The Monmouthshire’s full range of products covering residential, commercial, development, BTL and holiday let mortgages.
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