Hampshire Trust Bank has hired Joseph Lethbridge as a business development manager for the City of London and West End.  

The specialist bank says Lethbridge will help boost broker relationships and introduce new intermediaries to its business.   

Lethbridge joins from Shawbrook Bank, where he worked as an internal business development manager for just over 18 months.   

The lender adds that he also has experience as a case manager and lending officer, and brings “a strong understanding of complex mortgage cases and an appreciation of how to keep cases moving”.  

He joins Danny Kiely who is also a business development manager in the capital.  

The firm says it is expanding this team due to the “greater levels of demand from London-based brokers it has seen this year”  

Hampshire Trust Bank sales director of specialist mortgages Andrea Glasgow points out that the addition of Lethbridge to its growing business development manager team will mean the lender will be involved in “greater conversations with our intermediaries”  

Lethbridge adds that his “background has given me great insight into the importance of forging strategic partnerships, and the power of offering bespoke lending solutions”.