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Brokers and clients want accelerated application process

78% of intermediaries have clients who are in some way dissatisfied with the manual,...

Bank of Ireland UK relaunches broker portal

Bank of Ireland UK has added new features to its mortgage application system for...

Phoebus Software hires head of sales and account management

Adam Oldfield has joined Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) as head of sales and account...

Valunation rolls out Q-Mobile to its surveyors

Valunation has completed the rollout of Landmark Valuation Services' Q-Mobile tablet and software solution...

BrokerSense introduces buy-to-let calculator

BrokerSense, who provide specialist mortgage calculators to brokers, has launched a buy-to-let mortgage calculator. This...

The Coventry signs deal to improve its understanding of affordability

The Coventry Building Society is to use MBT Affordability from Mortgage Broker Tools to...

36% of brokers think execution-only will hit their business

23% of mortgage intermediaries expect that consumers will choose to bypass advice and arrange...

Doubling in estate agency business for anti-money laundering firm

Anti-money laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has reported that its estate agency client numbers have...

Masthaven now connected with SMG’s Lenderlink

Masthaven has launched its new Application Programming Interface (API) connection with master broker Specialist...

Financial software firm makes senior business development hire

Paylink Solutions has appointed Paul Nicholson as senior solutions consultant. He joins the Midlands-based technology...

L&G’s ClubHub update includes SmartrCriteria trial

Legal & General Mortgage Club has made changes to ClubHub, enabling advisers to see...

Modular GDPR compliance platform unveiled

Technology software DS Compliance has launched DS Dash:GDPR​​, a compliance management platform for managing...

SimplyBiz Mortgages in 360 Dotnet partnership

SimplyBiz Mortgages has partnered with 360 Dotnet to offer access to its practice management...

The Newcastle introduces digital debt help service

The Newcastle Building Society is aiming to transform the way it helps customers in...
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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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