Chetwood Bank has introduced the appointment of Alan Cleary as interim managing director of its mortgages division.
Cleary will take over within the driving seat from Andrew Arwas, who has stepped down from the role.
Cleary, who has labored in specialist lending for greater than 30 years, is finest identified for co-founding Charter Court Financial Services, which merged with OneSavings Bank (OSB Group) in 2019.
He led the Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, and InterBay Commercial manufacturers till asserting his retirement from the trade in 2021. He was named as chair of the Chetwood Bank’s mortgage advisory board in 2024.
Arwas was one of the unique founders of the enterprise in 2016 and fulfilled a quantity of roles, together with head of supply and company growth, and director of transformation. As managing director of mortgages, he oversaw the launch of the ModaMortgages proposition and the acquisition and integration of CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries.
Chetwood Bank will title a everlasting successor to Arwas in the end.
Commenting on his appointment Cleary mentioned: “The imaginative and prescient Chetwood Bank has for rising funding into the purchase to let market and dealing with brokers to assist much more of their landlord purchasers persuaded me to come out of retirement, so I’m delighted to have the ability to step up and assist steer the financial institution by means of the subsequent stage of its progress journey.”
