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Honouring the trade’s prime performers
The Australian Mortgage Awards celebrated the distinctive achievements of mortgage and finance professionals in 2024
The Australian Mortgage Awards continues to cement its place because the premier awards occasion for the mortgage and finance trade. Probably the most anticipated occasion on the mortgage and finance trade’s calendar, the AMAs as soon as once more delivered an evening of celebration, glamour and networking as a who’s who of sector leaders gathered to honour this 12 months’s award winners.
The 2024 Australian Mortgage Awards, held on Friday, 18 October, at The Star Occasion Centre in Sydney, drew the most important crowd in 10 years, with 800 folks in attendance.
Mortgage and finance brokers, BDMs, aggregators, third occasion leaders from banks and non-banks and different trade representatives gathered for the black-tie occasion run by Key Media with assist from Mortgage Professionals Australia and Australian Dealer.
The twenty third annual AMAs honoured prime trade performers in 27 classes, masking brokers and brokerages, BDMs, lenders, mortgage managers and aggregators. Greater than 200 Excellence Awardees (finalists) had been vying for the highest awards.
There have been additionally two main nationwide awards: Westpac Australian Dealer of the 12 months and Liberty Australian Brokerage of the 12 months.
AMA 2024 attendees had been handled to a implausible efficiency by Australian pop singer and songwriter Ricki Lee. Comic and radio and TV presenter Merrick Watts emceed the awards for the second 12 months working.
Because the winners walked up the pink carpet to obtain their awards, the digicam captured their each transfer, evoking the glamour of the Oscars. Following the awards, greater than 300 folks danced the evening away at an unique post-awards occasion sponsored by FINSTREET.
Westpac was the Australian Mortgage Awards occasion accomplice, with NAB and PRPTY 360 its premium companions.
Warren Shaw, head of mortgage dealer distribution at Westpac Group, stated the financial institution was proud to accomplice with the 2024 Australian Mortgage Awards for the sixteenth consecutive 12 months.
“Australians belief and worth the impartial service mortgage brokers present,” Shaw stated. “We assist and rejoice this as we come collectively to recognise an trade of hard-working and high-achieving professionals at this 12 months’s AMAs.
“The awards present a fantastic alternative to come back collectively and rejoice the excellent achievements of these within the mortgage broking trade and mirror on one other huge 12 months. The usual for professionals on this trade is already extremely excessive, and yearly the finalists are in a position to exceed expectations.
“I’m all the time impressed by the calibre of the finalists and winners, and they need to give all of us a lot confidence for the way forward for our trade. Australians belief and worth the impartial service mortgage brokers present.
“As Australia’s oldest financial institution, Westpac is proud to accomplice with brokers and appears ahead to working in partnership for a lot of extra years to come back,” stated Shaw.
Award sponsors included ANZ, Bankwest, Bendigo Financial institution Dealer, Bluestone Residence Loans, Commonwealth Financial institution, Fairness-One, FBAA, Firstmac, Infinity Capital Monetary Group, Keystone Capital, La Trobe Monetary, Liberty, MFAA, Mortgage Alternative, Mortgage Avenue, MSA Nationwide, MyState Financial institution, Pepper Cash, Fee Cash, RedZed, Resimac, So Cash and Sprnt.
FinSecure was the function act sponsor. PRPTY 360 was the champagne sponsor, MA Cash was the picture sales space sponsor, and Maxiron Capital the social media sponsor.
Nominations
A nationwide name for nominations was carried out from June to July 2024 by way of the web channels of MPA and Australian Dealer.
Analysis and collection of Excellence Awardees
The Australian Mortgage Awards group reviewed the submissions and drew on information and knowledge gained by way of MPA’s and Australian Dealer’s connections to the mortgage trade, to determine essentially the most excellent brokers, brokerages, lenders, aggregators and BDMs in every class that will obtain an Excellence Award.
Affirmation of Excellence Awardees
As soon as the analysis was accomplished, Excellence Awardees had been chosen in every class and notified through electronic mail. Excellence Awardees had been additionally introduced on the MPA and Australian Dealer web sites.
Judging
The Australian Mortgage Awards group despatched accomplished Excellence Awardee submissions to an impartial panel of judges comprising mortgage trade leaders and senior representatives. The judges are well-known and properly revered within the trade, and their judgment was neutral, balanced, incisive and honest. Any choose with a battle of curiosity in a selected class recused themselves from judging that class.
Awards ceremony
The winners in every class had been revealed on the Australian Mortgage Awards official gala occasion and awards ceremony on Friday, 18 October 2024 at The Star Occasion Centre in Sydney. The record of winners was additionally printed on the MPA and Australian Dealer web sites.
2024 Judging panel
Helen Avis
Director of Finance
Specialist Mortgage
David Bailey
Chief Government Officer
AFG
Simon Bednar
Chief Government Officer
Finsure
Renee Blethyn
Head of Dealer Partnerships
NextGen
Adam Brown
Government, Dealer Distribution
NAB
Tim Brown
CEO
Recludo Mortgage Brokering Companies
Blake Buchanan
Aggregation | Acquisition | Technique
Specialist Finance Group
Kristy Clucas
Head of Dealer Technique, Partnerships & Efficiency
BOQ Group
Graham Cooke
Head of Client Analysis
Finder
Maria Edwards
CEO
Actual Property Institute of Australia
Ryan Gair
CEO
Fee Cash
Jean-Pierre Gortan
Managing Director
Simplicity Loans & Advisory
Paul Herbert
Head of Lending and On a regular basis Banking Distribution
AMP
Tyrone Hodge
Chairman
API (Australian Property Institute)
Caroline Jean-Baptiste
Lending Specialist and Proprietor
Mortgage Alternative
Razia Khan
Common Supervisor, Third Social gathering Banking
Commonwealth Financial institution
Frank Knez
CEO
Nationwide Property Group
Anja Pannek
CEO
Mortgage & Finance Affiliation of Australia (MFAA)
Lee Rudwick
Head of Technique, Efficiency and CX – Residence Loans
ANZ
Steve Sampson
Chief Government Officer
Prime Capital
Louisa Sanghera
Managing Director
Zippy Monetary Group
Barry Saoud
Common Supervisor Mortgages and Business Lending
Pepper Cash
Warren Shaw
Head of Mortgage Dealer Distribution
Westpac
George Thompson
Head of Mortgages
ING
Joseph Trimarchi
Solicitor
Joseph Trimarchi & Associates
Alf Vasta
Enterprise Growth Supervisor
Liberty
Peter White AM
Managing Director
Finance Brokers Affiliation of Australasia
Sharon Yardley
Chief Compliance and Sustainability Officer
Heartland Financial institution
Angel Zhong
Deputy Head of Division – Finance | Affiliate Professor of Finance
RMIT College
Jeff Zulman
Managing Director
TrailBlazers Finance