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Our seminar theatre content is carefully crafted to bring you the latest information on a range of topics that are critical either for your client advice or generally to support your market understanding, to enable you to offer the latest thinking across the market in client/adviser conversations.
We look for broad representation under all topics, so you can hear a range of views from some of our sectors leading spokespeople.
Our speakers are in the process pf being confirmed for this region, but the following offers a broad overview of what to expect on the day.
In his role as a Macro Economist, Daniel will be examining the key expectations of the next few months and into 2026, including expected inflation, any UK internal or UK external impacts potentially on the horizon and whether that is likely to have a positive or negative impact on the housing and mortgage markets.
Daniel Rumszauer, Economist, NatWest
Here we will look at lenders expectations and how they might be responding to change, regulation, choppy SWAP rates and the opportunities 2026 is going to bring to the intermediary market.
Susan Cocoran, Regional Manager, Halifax
John Gibbons, Head of Commercial Development, Santander
​Paul Fenn, Director Business Development, Skipton for intermediaries
Both Stephanie & Paul take a retrospective look at 2025, what has been achieved and how it’s supporting their individual aims and priorities for 2026.
Both will outline their current and future focus in support of intermediary markets and what they hope to deliver both shorter and longer term.
Stephanie Charman, Chief Executive, Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)
Paul Broadhead, Head of Mortgage & Housing Policy, Building Societies Association
In this session, we challenge all the thinking surrounding how AI will challenge the intermediary market, turning it on its head to detail how it has the potential to support your advice process, letting you spend more time with your clients and enhancing - not replacing your advice – with care and due diligence!
Niki Cooke, National Account Manager. Mortgage Brian
In this fast-paced session, David Jackson, National Account Manager with Hinckley & Rugby Building Society, looks at the strength of the Scottish Market having recently launched into the region with products including its Income Flex, Credit Flex and Core ranges and Buy-to-let.
David Jackson, National Account Manager, Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries.
2025 continues to bring more change for landlords and the PRS across the UK. This segment of our housing system has had their fair share of change in the last few years which is why they need advice now more than ever. Keeping ahead of the information required for an intermediary to best support their landlords is a complex ask and here three lenders bring their thoughts on how this might best be done.
Steve Hewitt, National Account Manager, Aldermore
Jonathan Stinton, Head of Intermediary Relationships, Coventry for intermediaries
Stephen Harrison, North East Business Development Manager, Paragon Bank
As technology advances, so does the opportunity for fraud and the need for cyber security which is a clear and present danger to your firm. We ask experts in this area to explain how advanced some fraudsters are becoming, identifying their processes as opposed to those that just over inflate their earnings a little to secure their home, detailing how it doesn’t take long to become embroiled in a web of deceit unwittingly.
Amy McClemont CISSP, Security Culture Manager with the Chief Security Office, Lloyds Banking Group
We ask a number of lenders about their thoughts on the current product provision in the mortgage sector and debate the recent innovations that have grabbed headlines for a variety of reasons, while asking, what more is likely to come.
Andrew Calder, Strategic Partnerships & Proposition Manager
Stephanie Charman, Chief Executive, Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)
Louise Drummond, National Account Manager, Leeds Building Societ
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