The Intermediary – February 2025 - Flipbook - Page 58
Q&A
Brilliant Solutions
The Intermediary speaks with Ivan Vizor, head of key
accounts at Brilliant Solutions, about the UK Mortgage
Convention and the outlook for brokers in 2025
What are you most excited
about for the first UK
Mortgage Convention?
This is going to be one of the biggest events of its
kind for many years. I’ve been thinking about it
for a while, actually two or three years, and once
I’d conveyed the idea to Michael Craig, Brilliant
Solutions’ MD, he instantly saw the vision and
we pulled together a picture of the kind event we
wanted, and how we would make it happen.
The first real buzz came when we started talking
to sponsors – mortgage lenders and providers,
from the big hitters on the high street to the more
niche and specialist providers. The response has
been incredible, everyone loved the idea of the
event and they have piled in to join us, it’s been
genuinely humbling.
It was originally planned as a smaller event
to see how big the appetite might be, but from
the day that it was first mentioned, the whole
thing started to gain
real momentum
as people
g
jumped to get
involved.
I put
tog
together a
list of key
speakers
that I
w
wanted
to join
us – some
of the very
best in an
industry where
we have so
many fantastic
speakers – and
they all said yes.
That’s when the levels
of excitement actuall
actually
went through the
roof. They’ll
be presenting, but
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more than that, it’s about their experience and
their ability to engage, entertain, educate and
take mortgage brokers on a journey that will leave
them feeling excited, and feeling hopeful about
themselves, their businesses and the future of the
industry.
So, to answer your question, I’m truly excited
that we have pulled together the top speakers
and the right sponsors for the event, to bring
their economic and industry knowledge, insights,
predictions, strategies and opportunities.
With some other events, first and foremost it’s
about the expo hall, where all the lenders are. It
sometimes feels like the speaker programme is
secondary. This event has been primarily focused
around the conference and the speakers.
Is the event an extension of
Brilliant Solutions’ own strategies?
I’m really fortunate to go to a lot of amazing
industry events – big events that pull in so many
brokers and really high quality speakers.
However, what I see is that these events are
only ever aimed at big networks and the larger
directly authorised (DA) brokerages. What that
means is that the DA broker, who very often works
remotely, maybe as a one or two-person company,
or even brokers from larger DA companies who
work remotely, don’t get the opportunity to attend
this kind of event.
Brilliant Solutions is unique, in that we’re the
only specialist distributor that also has a mortgage
club, so we have relationships with brokers across
the whole spectrum of mortgage advising, and we
can see how and where they work.
This has enabled us to identify the target
audience and work to get them involved in the UK
Mortgage Convention.
We have been committed to UK-wide events for
many years, with monthly roadshows, breakfast
events and round tables. Bringing education and
collaborative events to mortgage brokers has been
at the heart of Brilliant Solutions ethos for many
years. I’ve been around the industry a long time
now, and it’s great for me to be with a company
