Specialist loans distributor Enterprise Finance has appointed Jackie Steel to its team as head of compliance.

Steel joins Enterprise Finance from specialist lender GE Money where she looked after the compliance monitoring team during a successful six-year period.

Steel comes with over 20 years of financial services experience, as well as an unrivalled understanding of internal compliance across the mortgage and specialist loans markets.

Her primary role will be to navigate Enterprise Finance through consumer credit reform and the Mortgage Market Review.

Steel said: “It is a real honour to be joining the Enterprise Finance team at this strong period of growth – not just for the company, but for the secured lending market as a whole.

“My role will be to continue to raise awareness of compliance within the business and, moving forward, work with the staff to ensure all risks and obligations are incorporated into our plans seamlessly.”