Freedom Finance and its broker offering The Lending Wizard has promoted from within as Nicola Mooney becomes the head of secured, intermediary and business finance.

Mooney has been at the loan broker since 2003. Her first role was as a loan officer, while she was previously operations manager at the company.

Freedom Finance expect the second charge market to more than double in size in the next three years due to sweeping regulatory changes which will raise awareness of the industry.