Broker firm LDNfinance has promoted Amy Baptise (pictured), currently administration manager, to the newly-created role of head of specialist finance.
In the role, she manages the specialist lending department will help grow business volumes by enhancing current processes.
Baptiste has worked at LDNfinance for around two years, initially joining as a senior specialist paraplanner and working her way up to administration manager.
Before that she worked as a paraplanner for largemortgageloans.com for nearly three years and The Acorn Group before that.
She won the British Specialist Lending Awards and British Mortgage Awards best broker administrator categories in 2022 respectively.
Chris Oatway, co-chief executive of LDNfinance, said: “Amy’s promotion is well deserved. Her deep-rooted knowledge of LDNfinance and specialist lending expertise lends itself well to this role. She is a natural leader and we have no doubt that the department is in safe hands under her supervision.”
Baptiste said: “I feel very proud to be taking on this new role. It’s an exciting challenge in which I look forward to stretching myself.
I am excited to be part of LDNfinance at this pivotal point of growth for the department.”
LDNfinance has been growing its team in recent months, hiring Greg Cunnington as chief operating officer and added two advisers, Martin Ball and Daniel Everitt. Allyson Hautot has joined as a paraplanner.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
