Business

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

Instamo has launched FastAdmin, a post-submission automation service designed to reduce the administrative work...

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...

FCA bans CEO over fake €200m bond portfolio

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned two former Blue Horizon Asset...

Pivotal reports 121% growth in second charge lending

Pivotal has reported a 121% year-on-year increase in second charge lending through its Believe...

RICS: Mortgage costs keep housing market subdued

The UK housing market remained subdued in July as buyer demand and agreed sales...

Regional divide reshapes landlord investment plans

Landlords are reassessing where they invest as regional differences in yields, arrears and void...

Scottish BS deploys AI across all customer interactions

Scottish Building Society has partnered with Malted AI to analyse every customer interaction across...

PropTech silos prolong mortgage journey, Houzecheck warns

Disconnected property technology is creating new data silos instead of delivering faster mortgage and...

No mandate for automatic cohabitation rights, Deech warns

Proposals giving cohabiting couples automatic rights over homes, pensions and other assets lack clear...

Bristol tops 2026 Japanese knotweed hotspots

Bristol has retained its position as England’s Japanese knotweed capital, recording more than twice...

Gen H AI cuts mortgage offer delays by up to five days

Gen H has introduced an artificial intelligence packaging agent designed to identify document errors...

Stonebridge overhauls protection sourcing platform

Stonebridge has redesigned the protection sourcing journey within its Revolution adviser platform to support...

WH Ireland adopts MARS to strengthen vulnerable client support

WH Ireland has adopted the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) to improve how it identifies...

Royal London appoints Gelling as risk chief

Royal London has appointed Louise Gelling as group chief risk officer, subject to regulatory...
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Business

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

Your clients have already asked AI

The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

The technology that matters doesn’t make the decision

We have a tendency when talking about mortgage technology to start with what it can automate. How many documents can it process, how quickly can...

Darrell Walker on LendInvest’s next chapter

After 35 years in banking and mortgages, the former football hopeful thought he might have found the company where he would see out his...

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