Larry Banda

CEO TISA Commercial Enterprises

Larry is CEO, TISA Commercial Enterprises and was appointed in his new role in February 2023 while continuing with his non-executive director role as Deputy Chair of TISA.

Larry brings a raft of board and executive experience to the TISA Group, having been an NED/Chair of Mortgage Brain and The Mortgage Trading Exchange for nine years and having been on the TISA Board since 2015.

Larry became Deputy Chair in 2020. He has supported TISA’s Executive team as Board representative and been directly and actively engaged in TISA’s work on Later Life Lending and Personalised Guidance where he chairs the cross-industry working group.Larry served 34 years with Nationwide in many senior positions across multiple disciplines prior to taking early (semi) retirement in August 2020. His roles included Director for Financial Planning, Protection & Investments from September 2015, which included developing roboadvice solutions in the FCA sandbox, before expanding that role to include all of Mortgage Distribution (inc. Intermediaries) in 2019. This also included “Nationwide-Now” the video conferencing service launched for Mortgages and Financial Planning.

Larry has previously been Director for Branch Network, contact centres, was Head of Mortgages and has held CF1 responsibilities as Managing Director of The Mortgage Works, the largest Buy-to-Let lender in the UK.

Prior to leaving Nationwide, Larry launched the new Later Life advice team for Lifetime Mortgages and introduced the “Video to Member” service at the start of the pandemic, a full advice video conference capability linking Financial Planners, Mortgage Consultants and Later Life advisers to members in their own homes.