Technology

Pepper Money to unveil new website

Pepper Money is to launch a new and improved website next week. The specialist lender...

Mortgage Intelligence adopts Criteria Hub

Mortgage Intelligence has chosen Mortgage Brain’s Criteria Hub as its preferred criteria based sourcing...

TMA Club provides customer retention tool with new deal

TMA Club has partnered with Eligible.ai, providing members of the Club access to Eligible.ai's...

MBO at Phoebus Software

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has concluded a management buyout (MBO) after 30 years of...

Smartr365 provides client document storage solution

Smartr365 has launched SmartrDoc – an integrated storage system which allows brokers to retrieve,...

Top criteria searches keep changing

Knowledge Bank has stated that the top five most searched-for criteria by brokers have...

Just Mortgages unveils digital and social media solution to brokers

Just Mortgages is providing employed and self-employed brokers a digital and social media solution...

Uinsure launches first phase of ‘Zero Questions Asked’ quotes

Uinsure has introduced the first phase of its ‘Zero Questions Asked’ general insurance (GI)...

Broker calls for streamlined application processes

Specialist mortgage broker CLS Money wants lenders to streamline the process between application and...

The Hinckley & Rugby go live on iFinancial’s AML solution

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has gone live on iFinancial’s AMLtrac anti-money laundering...

Not reading policies widespread among consumers

New research has reported that 39% admit to not reading the policy on their...

Smartr365 appoints head of network and club relationships

Smartr365 has announced the appointment of Stephen Nobes as head of network and club relationships. Nobes...

Keystone in BTL API integration with Twenty7Tec

Keystone Property Finance has launched a full API integration with Twenty7Tec’s application submission system,...

Generation Z has different attitudes towards advice

Target Group has reported that so-called members of 'Generation Z' are more likely to...

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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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...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

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