Technology

The Mortgage Broker Club to include Greenfield Mortgages

Online platform, The Mortgage Broker Club, has announced that Greenfield Mortgages will feature in the...

Innovation webinar to highlight UTB, Landbay & Optalitix

United Trust Bank (UTB), specialist AI solutions provider Optalitix and Landbay are to feature...

LiveMore Capital now on Criteria Hub

Later life provider  LiveMore Capital has become the latest lender to join Criteria Hub. There...

Property Master uses AI for new affordability calculator

Property Master has launched a new mortgage calculator that uses artificial intelligence to analyse...

Trio of senior hires at AML firm

SmartSearch expanded its senior team with three new appointments. The anti-money laundering (AML) firm has...

Virgin Money integrates with Twenty7Tec

Virgin Money has developed an API integration with Twenty7tec, which will streamline the search...

Access Financial Services adopts Mortgage Magic

CRM and mortgage management platform, Mortgage Magic, is to provide mortgage and protection brokerage...

Knowledge Bank’s 12 Days of Christmas returns

Knowledge Bank has brought back its ‘12 Days of Christmas’ campaign for the third...

Advise Wise allows addition of fees on sourcing platform

Advise Wise has unveiled a new feature on its later life sourcing platform to...

MT Finance joins Knowledge Bank platform

MT Finance's short-term loan criteria in now available on the Knowledge Bank platform. Knowledge Bank...

MCI Mortgage Club unveils later life sourcing

MCI Mortgage Club has introduced a later life lending sourcing platform to its members. The...

New Lendlord hub promises bespoke recommendations

Lendlord has launched its new finance hub with the aim of delivering bespoke, automated...

Customers embrace Swansea Online

The Swansea Building Society has reported that its new digital savings and mortgage service...

Pure Retirement creates new marketing toolkit for advisers

Pure Retirement has launched an improved adviser marketing toolkit.  Advisers can access guidance in subjects...

COMMENT

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...

Mortgage network growth diverges as acquisition activity reshapes sector

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

LMS appoints Ian Robinson as permanent chief executive

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

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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