Technology

Coventry BS appoints chief information and digital officer

The Coventry Building Society has appointed Jayne Showell as its chief information and digital...

Advise Wise unveils product comparison feature

Advise Wise has launched a product comparison feature on its later life platform. The feature...

Criterion to act as equity release API standards custodian

Criterion, a not-for-profit standards and governance services body, has taken on the stewardship of...

Cloud-based mortgage software provider acquired

Finova has acquired BEP Systems, the provider of cloud-based mortgage and savings software in...

Octane Capital joins MBT Affordability BTL panel

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added Octane Capital to the buy-to-let panel on its...

The Darlington enhances digital offering

The Darlington Building Society has made major investment in digital banking services. The mutual...

September fall in 95%+ LTV mortgage searches

Twenty7Tec has published its monthly mortgage market data for September 2021. The mortgage technology...

Online mortgage broker launches to non-high street customers

An online mortgage broker, Haysto, has this week launched for customers who don’t fit...

Halifax Intermediaries joins Submissions Brain

Halifax Intermediaries has become the latest lender to join Submissions Brain, Mortgage Brain's new...

ULS technology hires head of sales for estate agencies

ULS technology has recruited Nick Huntley as head of sales, to take its digital...

Legal & General Mortgage Club unveils ‘broker in a box’ offering

Legal & General Mortgage Club is to offer an API-driven WordPress integration to mortgage...

360 Dotnet partners with digital ID specialists

360 Lifecycle, 360 Dotnet’s end to end practice management system, now offers digital document...

Roma Finance introduces new fast processing channel

Roma Finance has launched a fast new channel for cases it deems as being...

Legal & General adds buy-to-let search functionality to SmartrFit

Legal & General has announced the addition of a new buy-to-let module in its...
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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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