Cymru Mortgage Lunch

Cymru Mortgage Lunch, in association with Monmouthshire Building Society, is returning to The Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff, on Thursday 16 May 2024.

With leading mortgage lenders, surveyors and intermediaries, as well as government and regulatory stakeholders and other key industry leaders; The Cymru Mortgage Lunch is a unique opportunity for the Welsh mortgage industry to engage, network and develop new relationships with peers, all whilst enjoying great food and wine in a relaxed setting.

The lunch will provide an opportunity to:

Engage with Welsh government stakeholders
Learn from and develop new relationships with your peers

Dress code:

Business attire

Pricing:

Single Member: £150 + VAT
Single Non Member: £250 + VAT

Member Table: £1,500 + VAT
Non Member Table: £2,500 + VAT

Sponsorship Opportunities:

For more information about supporting our 2024 event, please contact our associate membership team here. We are proud to partner with organisations on our mortgage events. If you would like to support the Cymru Mortgage Lunch please contact Darren Jeyasingam.

Area of expertise:

Mortgages

Top Speaker

Cerys Williams

Partnerships Manager, Sero

Cerys is the Partnerships Manager at Sero, leading numerous green finance initiatives with financial institutions to tackle residential decarbonisatio...

Cerys is the Partnerships Manager at Sero, leading numerous green finance initiatives with financial institutions to tackle residential decarbonisation within their portfolios.

Pilots have included the POWER project (Partnership Outputs Working to Enable Retrofit) alongside Virgin Money & Rightmove, VALUER (Valuations And Lending Underwriting Energy Reduction) alongside Monmouthshire Building Society, Rightmove & RICS, FLATLINE (Fixed Level Affordable Tariffs Led by Intelligently Networked Energy), EQUINOX (Equitable Novel Flexibility Exchange) as well as leading the Foundational Economy elements within the pan-Wales Optimised Retrofit project.

Prior to Sero, Cerys managed a fast-paced city centre residential sales and lettings estate agency. Cerys intends to keep building her skillset to play a key part in driving forward cutting-edge innovation and the use of new technologies and smart systems within the residential sector. As well as helping tackle the climate emergency, a personal key driver for her is the eradication of fuel poverty and to support better living standards within new and existing homes.

Charles Roe

Director of Mortgages, UK Finance

Charles has over 25 years financial services experience and joined UK Finance in August 2020. As Director of Mortgages he has overall responsibility f...

Charles has over 25 years financial services experience and joined UK Finance in August 2020. As Director of Mortgages he has overall responsibility for delivering the mortgage policy work of UK Finance.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Charles was Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer at The Nottingham Building Society where he was accountable for designing and implementing the Society’s risk strategy and framework. Charles brings with him a wealth of experience including time as a director in the Regulatory Financial Services Practice at Grant Thornton LLP and 11 years regulation and compliance experience at the FCA. Whilst at the FCA, Charles was Head of Department for the mortgage sector, where he developed the FCA’s approach to the supervision of the UK mortgage market and oversaw the implementation of both the Mortgage Market Review and Mortgage Credit Directive.

Dawn Gunter

Chief Operating Officer, Monmouthshire Building Society | Chair of the UK Finance Wales Policy Committee

Joining the Society in 2017, Dawn moved into the role of Chief Operating Officer and was appointed to the Board in February 2018. Dawn has enjo...

Joining the Society in 2017, Dawn moved into the role of Chief Operating Officer and was appointed to the Board in February 2018.

Dawn has enjoyed a successful career in senior leadership roles, spanning the banking, insurance and building society sectors with some of the UK’s biggest organisations, including, Sainsburys Bank, Principality Building Society and Legal & General.

With over 30 years’ experience within financial services, Dawn is highly astute and skilled in the formulation of strategy and delivering change. She has a wide breadth of knowledge across all key functional areas of Operations, IT, Business Change, Brand & Communications, HR and Compliance Quality Assurance with successes delivering results through high performing teams and creating customer and colleague centric cultures. Dawn took on the role of Chair for the UK Finance Wales Policy Committee in 2022, working to influence government policy on behalf of lenders and bringing the sector together for the good of consumers.

Dawn’s dedication and passion for the Society’s colleagues, members, and communities’ shines through, making a positive impact each day. She is a Trustee for the Society’s Charitable Foundation, ensuring worthy causes receive the help and support they need to flourish.

Monmouthshire Building Society

Monmouthshire Building Society was founded in 1869 in Newport. As a mutual building society, we’ve been serving our members for over 150 years, and ou...

Monmouthshire Building Society was founded in 1869 in Newport. As a mutual building society, we’ve been serving our members for over 150 years, and our members’ needs remain at the heart of everything we do.

As a regional building society, with over 70,000 members across England and Wales, we’re able to reinvest our profits back into the business to provide a better service for our members.

The Society offers savings and mortgages and other products such as home insurance through third party links. Our members are able to access their accounts online and will soon have access to our new savings app. However, may still choose to visit us in person in our growing high street branch and agency network.

As a mutual building society, we’re committed to supporting our local communities. Thanks to members investing in the Society, we’ve been supporting local community projects for over 20 years. We’re now proud to be reaching and helping more people than ever through these initiatives, which include colleague volunteering, sponsorship programmes and our charitable foundation.

The Society is a major employer in south east Wales, with around 250 colleagues.

CEOs, MDs, heads of mortgages from the region's leading lenders, as well as senior executives from the intermediary and broker market, surveyors and law firms.

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