Technology

Atelier provides real-time dashboard for borrowers

Development lender Atelier has launched a secure platform that enables borrowers to view and...

Mortgage Magic secures ISO 9001 rating

Mortgage Magic, which recently attained ISO 27001, has now also qualified for ISO 9001:2015. ISO...

MBT Affordability provides Proportunity integration

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with mortgage lender...

SPF Private Clients integrates with Yourkeys

SPF Private Clients has completed a full integration with property software solution Yourkeys. Yourkeys, which...

TPFC partners with Nivo to improve secured loan journeys

Secured loan firm The Personal Finance Centre has chosen Nivo to implement its app-based...

Mortgage Brain’s Lendex now includes Accord products

Accord Mortgages has now gone live on Lendex, Mortgage Brain's multi-lender application and submission gateway. The...

Accord Mortgages extends API availability

Accord Mortgages has launched its software to all brokers who use Iress, Twenty7Tec and...

Smartr365 integrates with four lenders via Iress Lender Connect

Smartr365 has connected with TSB, Aldermore, Leeds Building Society and Accord Mortgages via its...

Pure Retirement introduces new mobile app

Pure Retirement has refreshed its mobile app for equity release advisers, designed to improve...

OSB Group renews Phoebus contract

OSB Group (OSB) and Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) have agreed a new five-year contract. The...

Twenty7Tec integrates Accord into APPLY

Twenty7Tec has announced that following a trial, Accord has been added to its APPLY...

New website for Pepper Money

Pepper Money has unveiled its website with improved navigation and features. The new website features...

FutureBricks added to Twenty7Tec

FutureBricks has joined Twenty7Tec, introducing its updated lending criteria to intermediaries. Brokers will be...

UK businesses urged to ditch manual ID checks

SmartSearch has launched a new Electronic Verification Uncovered campaign, to raise awareness of the...

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...

Latest news

Keystone’s Phil Riches to retire after 50 years in financial services

Phil Riches is to retire as sales director of Keystone Property Finance later this...

SDKA raises title indemnity insurance limit to £250,000

SDKA has increased the maximum loan size eligible for its title indemnity insurance policy...

Buckinghamshire BS revises mortgage rates across seven lending categories

Buckinghamshire Building Society has increased rates on several three-year fixed mortgages as part of...

Badenoch pledges no IHT or stamp duty on family homes

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp...

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