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Mike Tunai has been appointed to the BDM role with First Mortgage Trust. This follows an 18-year career with ANZ where he was a high performer across various roles. In the last seven years, he was the BDM for ANZ's Mortgage Adviser Distribution and made a significant contribution to the growth of the unit. First Mortgage Trust said Tunai’s lending knowledge and relationship skills will put him in good stead in his new role.

ANZ has announced John Judge will be retiring from its board of directors in January 2018 and former prime minister Sir John Key will become its new chair.

ANZ Group Chair David Gonski said “Sir John Key’s strong international career in banking and his understanding of and contacts across the Asia-Pacific – where many Australian and New Zealand companies are increasingly trading - will add great value to the governance of ANZ.”

NZHL has appointed Sonia Coupe as chief information officer and Carolyn Jermone as head of legal and compliance, based in its Hamilton head office.

Coupe joins NZHL with extensive international experience in IT implementations, operation management and business strategy. Her experiences include handling global operations of leading MNCs accounts such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, as well as managing top-tier corporate clientele including AXA, Walmart, CocaCola, O2, Orange, Nike, British Airways, the European Parliament and various ministries and government bodies on behalf of Cisco. Coupe has also held the position of VP of client acquisition for a multinational coaching franchise and has successfully ran her own start-up business.

Jermone comes with many years of

experience working with the likes of AIG (NZ), UBS Wealth Management and ANZ Financial Planning (Australia) where she helped them meet the demands of the changing financial adviser regulations in Australia.

The NZHL franchise network continues to grow as well with Marion Sweeney establishing the Newmarket franchise. Sweeney has been with NZHL for more than two years and comes from a career in law and mediation and at this stage of her life she is attracted to the one on one relationship she will have with her clients and to be able to work with them to put them in a better place.

Nest Home Loans has appointed Sean Zeier and Graham Bond as mortgage advisers. Zeier started at Nest in June having previously worked at ANZ, Kiwibank and more recently as a lender and 2IC at the Coop Bank in Hamilton.

Bond started with the firm in May 2017 having previously worked for the police service.

He is interested in non-bank lending and helping people who have been declined elsewhere.

Sarah Kim has been recruited to the Auckland adviser team at Mortgage Express.

Kim has a background in both banking and real estate with seven years’ experience as a retail banker at ASB, and three years’ experience in a marketing and sales role for Harcourts’ group.

Kim will be based in West Auckland and the North Shore. ✚