Scottish Widows Bank has grown its specialist team with two new Business Development Manager (BDM) appointments covering London and the South East.
Zouhair Mihramane joins from Lloyds Bank after roles as a branch manager and within the commercial banking division.
Financial and mortgage adviser Priya Kapoor joins Scottish Widows Bank from the Halifax branch network.
Focused on strengthening relationships with brokers and advisers, new BDMs Mihramane and Kapoor will help drive awareness of the lender’s professional, flexible and offset mortgage range and the choice and benefits brokers can pass on to clients.
Martin Fleming, managing director, Scottish Widows Bank, said: “Zou and Priya are great additions to our BDM team, they bring in-depth knowledge of banking and a passion to put the needs of customers first.
“This expansion of our BDM team is further evidence of our commitment to the intermediary channel and the strong growth we are experiencing in our business. Improved service, criteria and rates mean that we are seeing record breaking business volumes in Scottish Widows Bank.”
For more on offsets, see Scottish Widows’ learning hub here.
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
