CML appoints Bradford & Bingley chief as chair

He succeeds Jon Pain, former managing director of Cheltenham and Gloucester. Meanwhile, Mark Parsons, managing director of home finance at Barclays, and Richard Brown, managing director of Bank of Ireland Personal Lending, become this year’s deputy chairmen. Crawshaw has held his role at Bradford & Bingley since March 2004 after joining Bradford & Bingley Building Society in 1999 as flotation programme director. He previously spent eight years at Cheltenham & Gloucester and Lloyds TSB. He says: “While the fallout from the credit crunch has been well documented, let’s not forget the st...