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LMS’ DART used for over 16,000 remortgaging cases

LMS has announced that its Decisioning and Automated Remortgage Technology (DART) has already processed...

New Air CEO amidst senior team restructure

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has restructured its senior team. Paul Glynn...

Humphrey & Gray joins ASTL

Property maintenance specialists, Humphrey & Gray, has become the latest professional organisation to join...

Hope Capital to fix rates on loans above £500k

Specialist short-term lender, Hope Capital, will be holding rates on all deals over £500k...

L&G partners with the Consumer Duty Alliance

Legal & General has announced its membership of a new independent professional body, the...

Aldermore provides £7.1m development loan

Aldermore has provided a £7.14m property development loan to Hollins Homes Limited, a well...

MBT Affordability integrates with new HPP lender

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with StrideUp, a...

Central Trust improves residential lending criteria

Central Trust, the first and second charge lender, has revamped its residential mortgage range,...

BoE raises base rate to 4.25%

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by a quarter of one percentage...

Legal & General Home Finance launches API on Air Sourcing

Legal & General Home Finance has partnered with Air to launch its Application Programming...

Pepper Money secures £1.2bn funding lines

Pepper Money has secured new warehouse facilities, worth more than £1.2bn, to support its...

Somo celebrates best ever month

Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging has celebrated its best month ever thanks to its...

Brightstar unveils new brand identity

Brightstar has introduced a new brand identity, with a new logo and design being...

Training for vulnerability “not enough to meet Consumer Duty”

A vulnerability specialist has warned that training frontline staff and advisers to identify and...

COMMENT

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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1,000 borrowers sign mortgage deeds digitally in under three minutes

The first 1,000 customers have signed their mortgage deeds using Qualified Electronic Signatures through...

TMG adds Roma Finance to lender panel

TMG Mortgage Network has added Roma Finance to its lender panel, expanding the range...

Reactive is not a business strategy

I was reading a piece of market commentary last week about what’s defined the...

FCA bans debt management executive over dishonesty

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Howard Roland Duckett from working in financial services...

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