Technology

Half of UK regulated firms see financial crime rise

48% of regulated firms in the UK have reported witnessing a rise in financial...

Shawbrook’s new portal facilitates offers in three hours

Shawbrook Bank has worked with Watts Commercial Finance to provide formal mortgage offers to...

Target Group appoints non-executive director  

Target Group has announced the appointment of Andrew McIntyre as a non-executive director on...

JLM Mortgage Services integrates OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been integrated across it proposition by mortgage and protection...

£35m in broker income being lost from lack of affordability research

Mortgage advisers are missing out on more than £35m worth of procuration fee income...

TSB goes live on Submissions Brain

Advisers using Mortgage Brain's Submissions Brain (formerly Lendex) can now request decisions in principle...

Iress adds Features enhancement to income protection

Iress has introduced an improvement to its quote and apply software The Exchange, enabling...

Mortgage Brain reveals rebrand

Mortgage Brain has undergone a significant rebrand, which includes the launch of a new...

Aviva offers digital protection dashboard for advisers

Aviva has joined CIExpert's newly-launched Insight Zone. This offers a digital dashboard to streamline an adviser’s protection...

Smartr365 launches white-labelled marketing tool for brokers

Smartr365 has launched HomeBuyer, a white-labelled brand that is designed to provider brokers the...

New identity for Dock9

Following the acquisition of the specialist financial services digital agency Dock9 by MagiClick at...

VP hires at GetGround

GetGround has announced the appointment of senior hires from Google and Liberis to lead...

Enra unveils new bridging technology platform

Enra Specialist Finance has launched a new underwriting and case management system for its...

Darlington BS to utilise LendingMetrics’ ADP

Darlington Building Society is implementing a new assisted underwriting platform to speed up decisioning...
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COMMENT

Technology

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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