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Equifax and Canopy look to bolster tenant credit scores

Equifax UK is expanding its partnership with rental platform, Canopy, to help tenants to...

Majority of young people believe credit scoring system is flawed

54% of people aged 18-34 think the current credit score system is fundamentally flawed, according...

Phoebus marks £80 billion of AUM on servicing platform

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has reported that the balances of loans and savings serviced...

CIExpert partners with Iress for protection sales

Critical illness comparison service, CIExpert, has announced a new partnership with Iress, to streamline...

Pepper Money now on CloudTwenty7 APPLY

Following a pilot, Twenty7Tec has announced that Pepper Money has been rolled out to...

Leeds BS enhances online application platform

Leeds Building Society has made changes to Mortgage Hub, its online application platform. The Society...

Knowledge Bank adds Proportunity criteria to platform

Shared equity loan provider, Proportunity, has joined forces with Knowledge Bank to make its...

Smartr365 completes new investment round

End-to-end mortgage platform, Smartr365, has secured further funding from investors, alongside a pre-money valuation...

Iress, Mortgage Brain and Twenty7Tec aim to standardise terminology

Iress, Mortgage Brain and Twenty7Tec are developing a common set of terminology and language...

MagiClick delivers new website for HTB’s Wesleyan Bank

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has selected digital agency MagiClick for a series of digital...

MBT adds second charge equity loan provider to platform

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

Your Mortgage Decisions to certify all new mortgage leads

Your Mortgage Decisions has appointed Contact State to certify all its mortgage leads and...

New NED joins Twenty7Tec board

Tony Prestedge, former deputy CEO at Santander, has joined the board of Twenty7Tec Group...

Newcastle Intermediaries integrates affordability criteria with Twenty7Tec

Newcastle Intermediaries has integrated its affordability criteria with the Twenty7Tec SOURCE module. The extended functionality...

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...

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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...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

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