Handelsbanken has appointed Steve McDonald to the function of nationwide head of middleman enterprise.
McDonald has been on the financial institution for 12 years and spent the final two years creating the its proposition for mortgage brokers.
He beforehand spent 23 years with NatWest throughout quite a few sectors, together with administration roles, and left in 2005 to develop a business finance brokerage.
In his new function, McDonald can be overseeing the enlargement of the financial institution’s work with intermediaries on residential and business mortgages throughout the UK.
McDonald says: “Handelsbanken has been working efficiently with intermediaries for a few years, however we took the choice to develop this nonetheless additional – and make it a key piece of our providing. Having spent the final two years creating our technique, I’m delighted to now have the possibility to launch it nationwide.
“In taking on my new function, I plan to carry even higher give attention to the significance of the dealer channel within the supply of our bold progress aspirations – and, externally, to help our department community in elevating the profile of our middleman proposition of their native areas.”