Technology

Commercial Trust improved online BTL comparison table

Commercial Trust has unveiled its enhanced buy-to-let comparison table for customers, adding a number...

TSB teams up with the Met to tackle fraud

TSB has embarked upon a new £200,000 partnership with the Metropolitan Police to improve...

Bluestone launches Open Banking pilot

Bluestone Mortgages has launched the pilot phase of its Open Banking solution. It claims to...

LendInvest partners with Mortgage Brain

LendInvest has teamed up with Mortgage Brain to bring its buy-to-let product to a...

Scottish Widows Bank unveils new mortgage broker portal

Scottish Widows Bank has unveiled SWB Click, its new online portal for brokers. SWB Click...

Knowledge Bank makes “permanent” 40% price cut

Knowledge Bank has permanently reduced the cost of subscribing to its criteria search system...

Molo and My Home Move to offer fully digital conveyancing

Molo has partnered with My Home Move to integrate the conveyancing service into its...

Mortgage brokers are benefiting from growing web traffic

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found that a...

Mortgage Brain makes improvements to ConveyancingBrain

Mortgage Brain has made a number of new system enhancements to its online comparison...

TMA Club unveils YouTube channel

TMA Club has launched a Youtube channel called TMA VISION, providing partner and provider...

Paragon’s eTech partnership to aid portfolio landlords

Paragon has teamed up with property data, analytics and solutions provider eTech, to roll...

Atom bank reaches £2bn in lending

Digital Mortgages by Atom bank has reached £2bn in residential mortgage lending, less than...

The Mortgage Lender products now on OMS platform

OMS partners with The Mortgage Lender on its specialist lending platform One Mortgage System (OMS)...

Bluestone launches integrated mortgage processing platform with broker

Bluestone Mortgages has partnered with CLS Money, a specialist mortgage and protection brokers. As part...

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The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Second-steppers take larger mortgages as deposits shrink

Home movers are turning to higher loan-to-value mortgages as rising property prices and smaller...

Property industry urged to help shape smart data rules

Property businesses are being urged to respond to a government call for evidence that...

Northern first-time buyers pay £10k price for delaying purchase

First-time buyers in northern cities risk losing thousands of pounds by postponing a purchase,...

Virgin Money to raise product transfer fixed rates

Virgin Money will increase residential and buy-to-let product transfer fixed rates on Friday, 24...

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