Technology

Fluent Money appoints group chief technology officer

Specialist lending distributor, Fluent Money Group, has appointed Steve Strickland-Wright to the newly created...

360 Lifecycle integrates with Mortgage Brain

360 Dotnet has announced that its CRM and back office system 360 Lifecycle has...

Knowledge Bank sees changes in brokers’ criteria searches

Criteria search firm Knowledge Bank has reported changes in the most common criteria searches...

Eligible unveils client retention calculator for brokers

Eligible has launched a broker client retention calculator to help brokers assess how much...

Air Group revamps Air Sourcing platform

Answers in Retirement Group (Air Group) has introdcued a new version of its Air...

Criteria Hub expands niche and existing searches

Criteria Hub has added 100 new buy-to-let and residential search criteria, its parent, Mortgage...

Mojo Mortgages hails partner API milestone

Mojo Mortgages has revealed that it has driven mortgage recommendations for £140m worth of...

HLPartnership adds conveyancing service for members

HLPartnership has launched DigitalMove to its members, promising a faster and more efficient conveyancing...

Knowledge Bank becomes Brilliant Solutions’ exclusive criteria search partner

Brilliant Solutions has adopted Knowledge Bank as its exclusive criteria search provider. Brilliant Solutions' members...

Redesigned Fleet Mortgages website offering new features

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new website which includes a range of new features and...

Carlos Thibaut retires from Lifetime Group

Lifetime Group has announce the retirement of Carlos Thibaut (pictured). He spent 15 years at...

The Co-operative Bank renews Capita mortgage contract

Capita plc has announced that it has renewed its contract with The Co-operative Bank...

Together increases securitisation from £255m to £500m

Together Financial Services Limited has increased its revolving Lakeside Asset Backed Securitisation 1 Limited...

Mortgage Advice Bureau partners with Gazeal

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has partnered with Gazeal, a property technology firm which seeks...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Accord raises buy-to-let maximum loan sizes to £1.5m

Accord has increased the maximum loan size across parts of its buy-to-let range, in...

FCA and PRA ease SM&CR rules in move to cut compliance burden

The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority have set out the first stage...

The Saffron broadens criteria across buy-to-let, self-build and residential lending

Saffron for Intermediaries has widened criteria across its buy-to-let, self-build and residential mortgage ranges...

Brokers report rising caution among borrowers as remortgaging picks up

Mortgage brokers are seeing more remortgage activity, but say geopolitical uncertainty, cost of living...

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