Technology

Knowledge Bank adds new cladding categories

Knowledge Bank has introduced new criteria categories including one to support brokers to find...

MBT unveils criteria search tool

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has introduced a criteria search tool which allows users to...

Knowledge Bank and Iress to provide integrated search

Knowledge Bank and Iress have teamed to a fully-integrated product and criteria sourcing system. The...

New CEO for Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has announced that Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group CEO and...

Online bridging lender launched by platform

Portfolio management platform, Lendlord, has unveiled an online bridging lender for property investors. Available on...

Mortgage Brain to hold March Mortgage Vision event online

Mortgage Brain is to hold its Mortgage Vision event in March in a new...

Self-employed mortgage affordability still an issue

There is at least one lender available to meet the loan requirements of self-employment...

Phoebus Software looks to raise £10k for nominated charity

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has chosen its nominated charity for the year ahead. In 2021,...

Mortgage Brain’s Lendex now open to all advisers

Following a pilot, Mortgage Brain has made Lendex available to all mortgage advisers. Lendex is a the...

Together in short-term lending partnership with L&G

Together's bridging products have been added to Legal & General’s digital criteria service designed...

Smartr365 unveils video and audio call functionality

Smartr365 has introduced a new feature called SmartrTalk, powered by Microsoft. The end-to-end platform for...

BEP Systems to provide lending solutions to Jordan International Bank

BEP Systems has been appointed by Jordan International Bank Plc (JIB) to provide system...

TruNarrative launches new AML and verification service

TruNarrative has added a new Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solution,...

Legal & General Mortgage Club reveals top SmartrCriteria searches

Legal & General’s SmartrCriteria tool saw its busiest month on record in January as...
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COMMENT

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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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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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