Technology

OMS secures primary tech relationship with LDNfinance

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by LDNfinance as its primary technology provider. The...

Twenty7Tec integrates APPLY with TSB

Twenty7Tec has finished an APPLY integration with TSB, allowing users of CloudTwenty7 to submit...

Shawbrook uses new platform for seven-day BTL completion

Shawbrook Bank and broker Commercial Expert have completed a buy-to-let mortgage seven working days...

Mortgage Broker Tools and Iress to integrate research

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has teamed up with Iress to deliver an integrated research...

Second charge market reflecting current economic divide

Knowledge Bank has reveal that capital raising featured in three of the top five...

Dynamo members get access to MBT Affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has partnered with Dynamo for Intermediaries to provide its 3,000...

Paymentshield introduces adviser chatbot functionality

Paymentshield is adding chatbot technology to its network of over 78,000 advisers. The adviser chat...

ULS Technology partners with Foundation Home Loans

ULS Technology is to provide an integrated panel management service to Foundation Home Loans. The integrated...

Legal & General adds six new lenders to SmartrFit

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added six lenders to its SmartrFit tool. SmartrFit allows...

LendInvest forms Open Banking partnership with Credit Kudos

LendInvest and Credit Kudos have joined forces to offer brokers and customers a "seamless,...

Brightstar reaches Trustpilot milestone

The Brightstar Group has now achieved over 2,000 reviews on Trustpilot, across its Brightstar...

41% of lenders taking ‘wait and see’ approach to Open Banking

Despite nearly three million British consumers using open banking services and the recent news...

Halifax Intermediaries now part of of APPLY module

Twenty7Tec has announced that Halifax Intermediaries has been added to its APPLY module, following...

Top buy-to-let lenders for affordability revealed

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has revealed who the top five buy-to-let lenders for affordability are,...
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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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Air and Mortgage Brain link sourcing platforms to widen later life lending options

Air and Mortgage Brain have agreed a collaboration designed to help mortgage advisers assess...
networks

Mortgage network growth diverges as acquisition activity reshapes sector

Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions and HL Partnership have recorded some of the largest increases in...
Appointments

LMS appoints Ian Robinson as permanent chief executive

LMS has appointed Ian Robinson as its permanent chief executive, four months after he...
News

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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