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Paradigm & Foundation Home Loans in open banking pilot

Foundation Home Loans has partnered with Paradigm Mortgage Services to offer its residential products...

How to avoid getting tangled up in knots

I was interested to read that the Loughborough Building Society has decided to do...

SMG unveils Lenderlink Referrals

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) has added a new feature to Lenderlink, its specialist loan sourcing...

Lenders helped by Criteria Hub data

Criteria Hub has claimed it is providing lenders with valuable product point feedback via enquiries...

SmartSearch wins Queen’s Enterprise Award for innovation

Anti-money laundering firm SmartSearch has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The award recognises businesses...

Conveyancing Association revises Cyberfraud & Fraud Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has revised its Cyberfraud and Fraud Protocol which seeks to...

Foundation Home Loans revamps broker portal

Foundation Home Loans has announced upgrades its online portal. The new version of the portal...

Skipton Intermediaries offers twitter based customer service function

Skipton Intermediaries has added a new twitter account, purely to offer broker focussed customer service. It...

National Friendly introducers bespoke broker portal

Friendly society National Friendly has launched a web portal, designed to smooth and improve...

New online fact find for One 77 Mortgages

One 77 Mortgages is launching a new online mortgage fact find this week. The online...

Criteria checking: trying to reach the right destination

There are many people now driving who have never looked at a paper map...

E.surv introduces remote valuation service

E.surv Chartered Surveyors has unveiled its Remote Valuation service, which is designed to offer...

Twenty7Tec sees growth in DA users

Twenty7Tec has revealed that the number of Directly Authorised (DA) mortgage brokers subscribing to...

Mortgage Skill launches on Amazon Alexa

Mortgage Brain has launched ‘Mortgage Skill’ on Amazon Echo, enabling consumers to ask Alexa,...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...