People and Business: CML top brass

MEANWHILE, THE Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), set up to represent both converted and unconverted building societies as well as the banks, has got some new top brass.

No freelance butlers here, though. George Wise, managing director of NatWest Mortgage Services, succeeds John Massey as chairman of the CML. Gren Folwell, deputy chief executive of Halifax, and Philip Williamson, marketing and commercial director of Nationwide Building Society, both become deputy chairmen of the CML. They succeed Charles Toner of Abbey National and George Wise.