I hope by now most of you will have had a chance to read our new 'vision' document which was emailed to members last week.
As well as continuing with the usual educational and networking events for members, the APB Board feels it is also very important for us to get more involved in wider property industry discussion groups and represent the interests of property bankers in other forums. To this end we are pursuing a joint initiative with the Investment Property Forum and hope to reveal further details very shortly.
New regulation on banks from both Brussels and the UK Government/Bank of England is set to intensify over the coming months/years in response to the recent financial crisis and it is therefore important that the property banking community is involved with other interested parties in these discussion groups and is able to contribute and speak with one voice. The APB will of course continue to act in the best interests of its members and therefore we really would appreciate your views on this subject as it will help to shape the way we progress this new initiative.
I look forward to receiving your thoughts and comments.
Andrew
