Market Financial Solutions has promoted 26 team members, with a number of individuals stepping into senior leadership positions across the business. The London-based lender’s team has now grown to over 200 and is celebrating promotions over recent weeks across all its teams, including business development, loan management, underwriting, retentions, credit, product, data and change. In the business development and loan management departments, four people have stepped up to more senior roles respectively, while there has been one senior promotion in its credit function. In Market Financial Solutions’ underwriting teams, nine colleagues have progressed to more senior roles, while four people have been promoted in its retentions team. Finally the product and data teams have seen three promotions, while the change team has seen one individual promoted.

more2life has relaunched its apex and apex interest reward product ranges. Its apex lifetime mortgage products combine high LTVs with short early repayment charges (ERCs) of four years and are designed for clients who value flexibility in order to meet potential future changes to their circumstances. The range provides higher LTVs for borrowers aged 90 to 95 than more2life’s existing omni product range, which allowed advisers to browse a broader range of options for clients at older ages, as well as those with long-term priorities. more2life has also relaunched its apex interest reward with borrowers offered the opportunity to secure interest rate discounts of up to 0.75% by committing to make monthly interest payments for a set period on the lifetime mortgage.

Stonebridge has appointed Liz Obee as national recruitment manager, with the aim of attracting new member firms to the national mortgage and protection network. She joins the firm from Mortgage Intelligence, where she served as business development manager and network recruiter for two years. Previously, she worked at Countrywide and Moneysprite, having worked as a mortgage and protector adviser for over 10 years. Obee’s appointment comes as Stonebridge has grown its appointed representative membership over the last eight years and has arranged more than £17bn of lending each year.

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