Technology

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...

Accord offers 24-hour residential application turnaround

Accord Mortgages has rolled out its new Mortgage Sales and Originations (MSO) platform, offering...

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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Badenoch pledges no IHT or stamp duty on family homes

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp...

RICS: Housing market recovery falters as buyer demand weakens

The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed...

Cost pressures hold back demand for energy-efficient home upgrades

More than a third of Britons want to improve the energy efficiency of their...

TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

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