Mortgages

Technology key to mortgage market future, brokers say

New research from Smartr365 has found that 61% of brokers believe technology will be...

Rate rises and cutting down on the client payment shock

Thursday 22 September 2022 was something of a momentous day given the Bank of...

Mortgage Brain adds Tandem products to its platforms

Users of Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain from Mortgage Brain will now have access...

Finova adds Tandem Bank to lender panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced its partnership with digital challenger bank, Tandem...

Energy costs hitting mortgage affordability

The rising cost of energy could lead to thousands of applicants missing out on...

Legal & General restructures mortgage business

Legal & General has announced the formation of Legal & General Mortgage Services, set...

Almost all brokers expect specialist mortgage market growth

Amid an uncertain economic climate fuelled by a growing cost of living crisis and...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network launches ‘Limitless’ sales conference

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has returned with its national flagship event with...

Just Mortgages launches new commission advance scheme

National broker firm Just Mortgages has launched a new 'golden hello' scheme to help...

Skipton BS extends current product switch window

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has revealed that it is seeing an increased desire...

Suffolk BS returns to self build and expat lending

Following its withdrawal from the mortgage market on 8 August, Suffolk Building Society has...

33% of UK mortgage holders fear unaffordable repayments

One-third of mortgage customers in the UK say that rising interest rates mean they...

Together posts pre-tax profit of £162.7m

Together Financial Services Limited has announced its results for the year ended 30 June...

Zinga partners with Pepper to help self-employed adverse client

Zinga Financial Services has completed a hard to place case for an Almost Primer...
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COMMENT

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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Badenoch pledges no IHT or stamp duty on family homes

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp...
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TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

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