Mortgages

More people would seek next mortgage quote online

Consumers are becoming savvier than ever before when it comes to getting mortgage quotes,...

Regulated firms ‘wasting time’ on manual identity checks

Regulated firms using manual methods of verification to onboard new individual customers are wasting...

Clydesdale Bank unveils further rate rises

Clydesdale Bank has announced changes to a selection of mortgage products. The changes took place...

Clydesdale Bank withdraws selected five-year fixes

Clydesdale Bank is withdrawing three five-year mortgage products. The deals are being withdrawn at 8pm...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils 3-year deals

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a range of three-year fixed rates. The changes follow feedback...

Paul Welch joins BoE Decision Maker Panel

Paul Welch, CEO and founder of specialist broker, largemortgageloans.com (LML), has been invited to...

CMME integrates APPLY into CRM

Mortgage and protection adviser CMME has announced the integration of Twenty7tec's APPLY, enabling users...

Hinckley & Rugby reprices JBSP and later life mortgages

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced simplifications across its product range, aimed at...

Virgin Money ups select Core residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money is making a series of changes to selected mortgage products. The changes will...

Top environmental QC publishes climate change advice

Environmental analytics business Groundsure has announced the latest legal climate risk advice it has...

Hinckley & Rugby BS undertakes first digitised remortgage transaction

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has conducted PEXA’s first UK transaction, introducing its digital...

LMS launches technology to simplify remortgage journey

LMS has launched LMS DART – its Decisioning and Automated Remortgage Technology – designed...

Norton Home Loans partners with Connect for Intermediaries

Norton Home Loans has partnered with Connect for Intermediaries, providing members of the network...

Reliance Bank revamps mortgage proposition

Reliance Bank has refreshed its mortgage product range and maintained cashback incentives for key...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

Badenoch pledges no IHT or stamp duty on family homes

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp...

RICS: Housing market recovery falters as buyer demand weakens

The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed...

Cost pressures hold back demand for energy-efficient home upgrades

More than a third of Britons want to improve the energy efficiency of their...

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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