Specialist finance broker ChaseBlue Loans has extended its current office to increase its seating capacity from 22 to 60.

Now it has extra space the South Wales firm has hired Kath Cousins as an underwriter, who has 18 years of experience in second charge loans working at First Plus Financial and then Nemo Personal Finance, both in Cardiff.

The firm has also hired Shannon Ryan, Geoff Hardwick-Brice and Eleanor Bradbury for the new business team. They will train to become CeMap qualified in the coming year.

Ben Gillespie, managing director of ChaseBlue Loans, said: “This is a very exciting period of growth for Chaseblue Loans: just two years ago we were a small team of 7 in a tiny underground office with no windows.

“Today we have a staff of 23 and by the end of the year we will have around 35 people, with capacity for up to 60 in our newly expanded office space which should see us through for at least a couple of years.”