Mortgages

Access FS launches time-saving service

Mortgage and protection broker, Access Financial Services, has introduced a new administrative service for...

September a record-breaking month for Twenty7Tec searches

Twenty7tec has issued its findings based on its mortgage platform data for September 2022. September...

Smart Money People’s Lender Benchmark open for intermediary feedback

Smart Money People has opened its doors for intermediary feedback to be compiled for...

West One Loans launches into first-charge residential market

West One Loans has launched into the first-charge residential mortgage market with a selection...

Norton Home Loans appoints roving underwriter

Norton Home Loans has recruited Mandy Westby to become a roving underwriter, working with...

Skipton to launch new five-year mortgage range

Skipton Building Society is to launch a new range of five-year fixed rate mortgages...

Crystal Specialist Finance unveils new website

Specialist finance distributor, Crystal Specialist Finance, has launched a new website which focuses on...

Smartr365 calls for greater data transparency

17.5% of UK mortgage brokers say they have been held as ‘data prisoners’ -...

Scottish Building Society adopts LendingMetrics’ ADP

LendingMetrics has been appointed by Scottish Building Society to deliver its credit decisioning solution,...

Q&A: Chris Waind, business development manager, Central Trust

BestAdvice fires the questions at Chris Waind, Business Development Manager at Central Trust BestAdvice (BA): You...

Enra merges Vantage and Enterprise

Enra Specialist Finance has launched a new specialist finance broker, Aria Finance, by merging...

VAS Valuation Group joins trade body

VAS Valuation Group has become the latest Patron of the NACFB. It has vowed to...

Prime property owners facing “eye watering” energy price rises

Largemortgageloans.com (LML) has warned that prime property owners need to act now if they...

Mortgage Magic opens London office

Mortgage Magic has opened a new London office, to support its continued expansion. The new...
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Technology

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

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