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New Equiniti report investigates consumer attitudes to lending

Equiniti Credit Services has published its latest annual research report. A three part harmony: how...

More 2 Life introduces SMS booking system

More 2 Life has launched SMS text appointment booking in partnership with e.surv Chartered...

Robo advice ‘good for broker market’

A mortgage broker has claimed that 'robo advice' and new technology provide brokers with more...

Criteria Hub acquired by Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has completed the acquisition of criteria based sourcing solution, Criteria Hub. Criteria Hub...

DPR completes API integration with AiR Sourcing

Mortgage systems provider DPR has integrated its illustration API with the AiR Sourcing platform. The...

CRM system offers personalised client portal

The Key’s digital Client Portal is now allowing Mortgage advisers to add their own...

Freedom Finance adds Open Banking to loan journey

Freedom Finance has launched Open Banking access to a panel of lenders for secured...

M&S Bank claims faster applications from open banking

M&S Bank has enabled open banking assisted mortgage applications. Most customers will no longer need...

CLS Money launches Talk Mortgages 

Essex based mortgage broker CLS Money has launched a new service called Talk Mortgages. Customers...

Mortgage technology firm appoints sales director

Eligible, a technology firm automating customer retention for the mortgage industry, has appointed ex-partner...

Smartr365 launches application workflow tool

Smartr365 has launched a new MortgageKanban feature. MortgageKanban is a scheduling and workflow management...

Connect expands second charge offering

Connect for Intermediaries has added Lenderlink and Fluent for Advisers to its second charge...

Mortgage Brain sees 2,000 customer boost

Mortgage Brain acquired 2,000 new customers during 2018 with a number national networks, corporate...

SBG and Twenty7Tec agree technology partnership

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has teamed up with mortgage technology firm Twenty7Tec to provide...
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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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