Development finance lender BLG appoints Anil Bains as Director of Asset Management

Business Lending Group (“BLG”), the specialist development finance lender, today announces the appointment of Anil Bains as Director of Asset Management. Due to business growth, this new role has been created to service the growing demands on BLG’s Credit Team.

Anil originally joined BLG in April 2014 as Credit Operations Manager.  Prior to this, he was a Project Manager for EC Harris.

Cécile Verroest, Risk Director at BLG, said: “I am delighted with Anil’s promotion which reflects the growing role he has taken on in our organisation.  Anil will now be responsible for all our construction monitoring and disbursements; he will communicate on all construction related matters with our customers and stakeholders.”

Anil Bains, Director of Asset Management at BLG, said: “Having worked within BLG’s Operations team and closely with Cecile for the last 4 years, this promotion means a lot to me.  BLG has an exciting future ahead and 2018 will be a busy year for myself and the team.

With the number of developments BLG funds growing each month, my focus will be to ensure that our high level of service and communication is maintained with our clients and that the first-class construction monitoring of our developments continues.”

Press Statement_BLG Development Finance_CR appointment_released 28Jan13

The residential development finance lender, BLG, today announces the latest industry figure to join their expanding team. Neil Richardson has been appointed as BLG’s new Property Risk Director; he brings with him over 16 years’ experience gained in senior management roles with InterBay Commercial, Savills and Edward Symmons.

Stuart Parfitt, Managing Director of BLG, today announces: “I’m delighted to welcome Neil to the BLG team. Neil brings with him a wealth of property risk experience, being an MRICS Chartered Surveyor and having worked for large lenders over the past 10 years. BLG provides developers with a fast, flexible and reliable source of property development finance and I know having Neil on board will add value to our developer and broker partners; his property and building knowledge really is second to none.”

Neil Richardson, Property Risk Director for BLG, commented on his new appointment: “I’ve known of the good reputation held by the BLG team for some time and I’m delighted to be joining them in this period of growth for the business. Not only will I be responsible for formulating property and development risk strategy and policy, an important part of my role will be to work with our developer partners, understand their project requirements and provide the utmost support to them from a risk and funding perspective.”

Press Statement_BLG Development Finance_NR appointment_3Nov11