Roma expands lending team

Roma Finance, the Manchester-based bridging and development finance lender, has appointed Lorraine Hart as lending manager.

Hart is an experienced finance professional with 19 years in the industry. Previous roles include working at unsecured and secured lender Beneficial Finance and as a branch manager for both the Co-operative Bank and Secured Trust Bank.

She has expertise in customer and client relationship management, business development, audit, compliance and underwriting.

Hart will provide one point of contact for introducers and assist them with cases from initial enquiry to completion and be able to manage transactions to offer updates as the cases progress.

She said: “I am very passionate about building key introducer relationships, and that I give the best service possible to them and their clients. It’s important to help make the bridging finance process as easy as possible to help grow the business.”