Technology

Mortgage Brain reveals Affordability Hub pilot

Mortgage Brain is piloting Affordability Hub with Countrywide and Openwork Advisers. This first phase...

First live transaction on Mortgage Brain’s Lendex

Mortgage Brain has revealed the completion of the first live transaction on Lendex, its...

Barclays unveils resi rate cuts and adds E-Sign

Barclays is makes changes to its residential and Reward ranges tomorrow (5 December). The key...

Collaboration aims to help maximise valuations

The ValPal Network and Loop Software have launched an integration which will reduce administration...

Smartr365 integrates with Mortgage Engine for automated lender DIPs

Smartr365 is to integrate with Mortgage Engine to improve its direct-to-lender connections and provide...

Twenty7Tec integrates with MortgageApply

Bluecoat Software has announced an integration with Twenty7Tec Group. The new partnership will allow users...

Climate change portfolio assessment service for lenders launched

Landmark Valuation Services has unveiled a new Climate Change Portfolio Assessment service design to...

Knowledge Bank to re-run 12 Days of Christmas campaign

Criteria search system Knowledge Bank will next week, and for the second year running,...

Dynamo teams up with Mortgage Engine

Dynamo has partnered with technology firm Mortgage Engine. It is the first mortgage brokerage to...

Thirdfort software helps Funding 365 save deal

Funding 365 has rescued an unusual commercial bridging deal by employing client onboarding software...

SmartSearch recognised for regulatory technology offering

For the third consecutive year, software firm SmartSearch has been included in the ‘RegTech...

Nottingham For Intermediaries revamps broker portal

The Nottingham For Intermediaries has unveiled a new online portal for brokers, promising an...

3mc adopts OMS platform

One Mortgage System (OMS), the processing platform for brokers and packagers, has been adopted...

Fluent Money appoints group chief technology officer

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