Technology

Dragon Network & Finance selects OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by the Dragon Network and Dragon Finance. The...

Iress to use Burrow for digital onboarding

Iress has agreed a partnership to include the Burrow onboarding and qualification tool as...

Hodge invests in Welsh fintech

Hodge has made an investment in platform Yoello. The investment will help the Wales-based fintech...

Air Group and Knowledge Bank to hold Criteria Clinics

Air Group is offering a series of new ‘Criteria Clinics’ in conjunction with criteria...

OMS secures primary tech relationship with LDNfinance

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by LDNfinance as its primary technology provider. The...

Twenty7Tec integrates APPLY with TSB

Twenty7Tec has finished an APPLY integration with TSB, allowing users of CloudTwenty7 to submit...

Shawbrook uses new platform for seven-day BTL completion

Shawbrook Bank and broker Commercial Expert have completed a buy-to-let mortgage seven working days...

Mortgage Broker Tools and Iress to integrate research

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has teamed up with Iress to deliver an integrated research...

Second charge market reflecting current economic divide

Knowledge Bank has reveal that capital raising featured in three of the top five...

Dynamo members get access to MBT Affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has partnered with Dynamo for Intermediaries to provide its 3,000...

Paymentshield introduces adviser chatbot functionality

Paymentshield is adding chatbot technology to its network of over 78,000 advisers. The adviser chat...

ULS Technology partners with Foundation Home Loans

ULS Technology is to provide an integrated panel management service to Foundation Home Loans. The integrated...

Legal & General adds six new lenders to SmartrFit

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added six lenders to its SmartrFit tool. SmartrFit allows...

LendInvest forms Open Banking partnership with Credit Kudos

LendInvest and Credit Kudos have joined forces to offer brokers and customers a "seamless,...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

Property firms still relying on manual checks as AI fraud risk grows

More than half of identity verification checks in UK finance and property businesses are...

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