Technology

Confused.com owner buys mortgage broker

RVU, owners of Uswitch, Confused.com and Money.co.uk, is to acquire Mojo Mortgages. Mojo, based in...

Brunel Mortgages chooses OMS as preferred technology provider

Brunel Mortgages has selected enquiry to completion platform One Mortgage System (OMS) as its...

Vida unveils digital switching portal

Vida has introduced an intermediary product switch portal to provide brokers with a simple...

UTB creates new chief technology officer role

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed James Masters to the newly created role of...

TSB goes live on Lendex

Lendex, the multi-lender application and submission gateway from Mortgage Brain, h as announced that...

UTB delivers 3-hour application-to-mortgage offer

United Trust Bank (UTB) has combined its new Mortgage DIP and Auto-Underwrite technology with...

Affordability Hub reveals usage stats for first year

Affordability Hub was used for mortgage searches worth more than £37bn during the first...

BEP Systems appointed by Unisys & Ipswich Building Society

BEP Systems is to provide Ipswich Building Society with a major upgrade to the...

ULS technology hires chief commercial & growth officer

ULS technology has recruited Simon McCulloch in the newly created position of chief commercial...

Just Wealth implements new CRM system

Just Wealth has implemented an advanced customer relationship management (CRM) system, ConcertHub, to support...

UTB introduces online DIPs and auto-underwriting

United Trust Bank (UTB) has launched online Decision in Principles (DIPs) and automatic-underwriting. The bank...

Advise Wise provides adviser desktop application

Advise Wise has introduced a desktop application to allow advisers to access the Advise...

Source to hold free webinar on FCA’s GI market study

Source Insurance is hosting a free one-hour webinar on the FCA's General Insurance Pricing Practices...

Sesame integrates with the Key and GBG’s EIDV checks

Sesame Network has exclusively integrated with the Key, Mortgage Brain’s CRM system and GBG,...
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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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Mortgage lending availability falls as banks anticipate recovery in demand

Mortgage credit availability and demand for house purchase and remortgaging all declined during the...
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L&G broadens adviser training to cover retirement and estate planning

L&G has extended its Adviser Academy webinar programme to help financial advisers address a...
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Four in five homeowners have taken no action to protect against extreme weather

Almost eight in 10 homeowners have made no specific preparations to protect their properties...
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Expat mortgage applications hampered by income verification difficulties

Almost two-thirds of mortgage brokers identify proving overseas income and affordability as the biggest...

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