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IdentityChecker unveils biometric facial ID checks

Identification and anti-money laundering check service, IdentityChecker, has launched biometric facial ID checks. The system...

eKeeper and Burrow rebranded to finova Broker Platform

Finova, (formally DPR Group), has rebranded eKeeper and Burrow to finova Broker Platform. The fintech...

SmartSearch improves international business reports

Anti-money laundering firm SmartSearch has updated its international business reports service, with the addition...

FIBA partners with Alternative Business Funding to create sourcing solution

Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) has teamed up with Alternative Business Funding (ABF)...

Advise Wise unveils ‘price per pound’ sourcing feature

Advise Wise has introduced what it says is the market’s first ‘price per pound’...

Generation Home partners with Twenty7Tec

A new mortgage lender, Generation Home, has partnered with Twenty7Tec, to expand the distribution...

Countrywide Surveying Services unveils PropertyFact 

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has launched PropertyFact,...

Affordability platform claims £82k boost from larger BTL panel

MBT Affordability has claimed that it enables buy-to-let landlords to borrow an average £82,000...

Octane’s buy-to-let deals added to Iress platform

Octane Capital has partnered with Iress, so all intermediaries using Iress will be able...

Finsec joins Knowledge Bank platform

Specialist second charge and secured business loan lender, Finsec, has added its criteria to...

OMS completes second charge API integration with West One

One Mortgage System (OMS) has finalised a complete API integration with West One for...

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries added to Submissions Brain

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has become the first regional building society to go...

Sourcing system reveals UK lender total

There are around 900 lenders in the UK covering an wide variety of finance...

Searches down for borrowers with complex financial situations

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool found that searches for capital raising mortgages...
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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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