The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has added Pegasus Insight as an associate member
The brings the trade body’s full and associate members to 65.
Pegasus Insight was launched in May this year and offers research and consultancy services to “unlock insight and direction for its clients, with a focus on the financial and professional services sectors”.
The firm offers qualitative, quantitative, behavioural science and data science-based approaches to meet clients’ business and research objectives.
The business will be represented by founder and managing director Mark Long, who previously worked at the BVA BDRC.
Kate Davies (pictured), executive director of IMLA, said: “It is a great pleasure to welcome Pegasus as the latest associate member of IMLA. We have worked closely with Mark since he and his former team created IMLA’s Mortgage Market Tracker in 2015.
“We look forward to working with Pegasus as they bring their perspective to our discussions on the key business issues facing intermediary-based mortgage lenders.”
Mark Long, founder and managing director, added: “I’m delighted that Pegasus Insight has been accepted as an associate member of IMLA. The group does a really excellent job of representing and promoting lender views.
“As an insights business, I’m excited to build our market knowledge through membership, which in turn we can deploy in the work we do for a wide range of lenders right across the industry.”
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.
