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Kensington appoints chief operating officer

Kensington Mortgages has recruited Mark Foulsham as its new chief operating officer. He will join...

PRIMIS adopts SolutionBuilder for its protection proposition

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has adopted iPipeline's protection sourcing solution, SolutionBuilder, across its entire network. SolutionBuilder...

Accord sees boost in use of online product transfers

Accord Mortgages has reported a 53% increase in online product transfers since launching a...

Atom bank partners with TruNarrative

TruNarrative has partnered with Atom bank plc, to provide an AML transaction monitoring and...

Robo-advice is brokers’ greatest technological fear

New broker research has found that brokers see fintech such as AI/robo-advice as the...

Brokers unlikely to be usurped by technology: Sinclair

True robo mortgage advice is “not coming in my lifetime”, according to AMI’s Robert...

Phoebus Software hires securitisation and funding specialist

Ian Sutton has joined Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) as a consultant specialising in the...

Promise upgrades its second charge sourcing platform

Promise Specialist Lending is claiming to offer the best combination of speed, accuracy and...

Mortgage Brain appoints new chairman

Mortgage Brain has appointed Peter Hill as its new chairman. Hill, whose previous roles include...

Hinckley & Rugby introduces online criteria searches

Following a partnership with sourcing system Criteria Hub, advisers can now search online to...

NatWest completes fully paperless mortgage process

NatWest has revealed that over 100,000 of its customers have benefitted from its paperless...

Target Group recruits chief commercial officer

Target Group has announced the appointment of Stuart Anderson as chief commercial officer. Anderson has over...

Webline integrates with The Key

Online quote and 'e-apply portal' Webline is now available to mortgage advisers through a...

Legal & General Mortgage Club updates SmartrCriteria

Legal & General Mortgage Club has made changes to SmartrCriteria, its digital criteria search...
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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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