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  • Mortgages & Housing
  • Posted: 26 Jul 2024

Annual meet-up for mortgage professionals

18
Sep
2024

  • Calender-Icon Time: 10:00 - 16:00
  • Location-Icon Location: London
  • Admin-Icon Organised By: BSA Events
  • Currency-Icon £395 Members/Associates & £495 Non-members

Our Annual Mortgage Meet-Up returns this September with a packed agenda.


This year's Annual Mortgage Meet-up returns with an in-person event held in London. The event will start with a market overview, looking at current key trends and things we need to think about for the future. This will be followed by insights from a political, policy and regulatory point of view with sessions on supporting people facing financial difficulty; a timely update on the green mortgage landscape; market and product innovation, AI and future foresight as well as the latest thoughts from the FCA. Panel sessions and fireside chats will provide an opportunity to ask lots of questions throughout.

The event will finish with informal networking drinks, sponsored by PEXA, which will provide an ideal opportunity for you to catch up with your colleagues.

Aimed at:
The event is aimed at heads of lending, credit risk professionals, customer facing mortgage teams and anyone with an interest in the UK mortgage market.

speech.png  Presentations:

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Richard Donnell - Houseful
James Alexander MBE - Zopa

                                                                      PROGRAMME
09:00 - 10:00    Registration, refreshments and networking
10:00 - 10:05   Welcome and introduction

Paul Broadhead, Head of Mortgage & Housing Policy, Building Societies Association

10:05 - 10:50    Market outlook

Richard Donnell, Executive Director, Houseful
Richard is a leading property industry figure best known for delivering insight and strategic advice on the residential and mortgage markets. During this session he will present market leading insights across emerging housing trends, housing development, mortgage lending and investment.

10:50 - 11:20    Insight into people in financial difficulty

Forid Meah, Head of Advisory Services at Arum (Chair)
Peter Tutton, Head of Policy, StepChange Debt Charity
Peter will take us through the change he has seen over the last 18 months, including the difference in people that are coming through their door, how we need to consider a new strategy to support these customers and what's coming down the line to be aware of. Forid will moderate the session, as well as providing insight into to how members can prepare for PS24/2 to support customers in financial difficulty.

11:20 - 11:35    Refreshment break and networking
11:35 - 12:20    Fireside chat with the FCA

Paul Broadhead, Head of Mortgage & Housing Policy, Building Societies Association (Chair)
Thomas Francis, Mortgage Policy - Manager, Financial Conduct Authority
A fireside chat with Thomas Francis from the FCA and Paul Broadhead on the latest updates from our regulatory body. 

12:20 - 13:00    Going green: developing a green mortgage proposition for the future

Chris Busey, Mortgages & Housing Policy Manager, Building Societies Association (Chair)
Amelia Williams, Lead Product Manager, Homes at Nationwide Building Society
Annie Heaton, Group Head of Sustainability, Skipton Building Society
Richard Rothwell, Commercial Development Manager, Leeds Building Society
Maria Dutton, Consumer Finance Lead, Green Finance Institute 
Maria will provide an update on the green mortgage landscape. She and the other panellists will then discuss lenders’ processes and considerations in developing green propositions and potential future innovations in the market. Attendees are encouraged to share their own experiences in an interactive discussion.    

13:00 - 14:00    Networking lunch
14:00 - 15:00    The future of building societies

Robin Fieth, Chief Executive, Building Societies Association (Chair)
James Alexander MBE, Co-founder of Zopa
James is a leading innovation and future foresight expert who will provide thought leadership around where a mortgage department needs to be focusing strategically, how to engage with the new generation to nurture and build those relationships and how building societies can navigate a crowded space with deep pockets..

15:00 - 15:40    Innovation in home buying, selling and re-mortgage journeys

Verdi Taylor-Bishop, Chief Marketing Officer, PEXA UK (Chair)
Claire Cherrington, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Lloyds Banking Group
Sarah Johnson, Director of Lending, Hinckley & Rugby Building Society
Maria Harris, Chair, Open Property Data Association
Verdi from PEXA UK will set the scene on innovation in this landscape, with the other panellists discussing the opportunities and challenges. Hinckley & Rugby Building Society will share their personal experience of working with PEXA, with Maria Harris as the Chair of OPDA sharing her insight on what building societies can be doing to support a digital first customer journey. Claire Cherrington will offer a wider perspective of the opportunities in this area.

15:40 - 16:00    Summary
16:00    Close with networking drinks, sponsored by  
An ideal opportunity for you to catch up with your colleagues and exchange views and ideas with your counterparts.
Speaker biographies

* Programme may be subject to change


  Venue:
  etc.venues Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HL

agenda-(1).png  Date:
  Wednesday, 18 September 2024

sessions.png  Timings:
  10:00 - 16:00 (registration open from 9:00am)

Currency-image.png  Cost:
  £395 (VAT exempt) - BSA Members & Associates
         £495 (VAT exempt) - Non-members 

register.png  Register:
  Complete the online form to secure your place.
         (Registration closes at 5pm on Friday 13th September 2024)

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  Please direct any enquiries to: events@bsa.org.uk

Cancellation policy

Event Summary

  • Wednesday, 18 September 2024
  • 10:00 - 16:00
  • £395 Members/Associates & £495 Non-members

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