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Masthaven chooses Phoebus Software solution

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has adopted Phoebus Software’s secured loans origination and servicing solutions...

Mortgage Brain app passes 20,000 milestone

Mortgage Brain’s mobile app has been downloaded over 20,000 times since its launch. The...

West One Loans introduces text service

Bridging lender West One Loans has unveiled an SMS service. The service is designed...

Data protection needs to be reassessed

Last month cloud-storage company Dropbox learnt they were at serious risk of computer hacking...

Two more insurers on Quote and Buy

Ageas and Legal & General are now offering home insurance products via Berkeley Alexander's...

Sense Network opts for MortgageBrain

Sense Network has chosen select Mortgage Brain’s sourcing system as its preferred sourcing solution...

miLoan passes eight figure milestone

Y3S’s secured and bridging loan sourcing system has achieved £10 million in loan completions...

Pure360 improves CRM integration

Pure360 has integrated with Sugar customer relationship management (CRM). Sugar is a CRM...

Making sense of all that data

I believe it was Donald Rumsfeld who made the following mind bending statement: "There...

New intermediary front-end from Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank says it has streamlined its secured lending process. The lender has launched a...

Berkeley Alexander upgrades back office system

Berkeley Alexander has completed its back office systems upgrade project after 12 months work. The...

Over 700,000 hit by Nationwide ‘error’

Nationwide Building Society has admitted that 704,426 accounts had amounts wrongly debited twice earlier...

Connect Overseas launches sourcing system

Connect Overseas has unveiled a white label, foreign mortgage sourcing system for brokers. The international...

HML espouses ‘agile’ with white paper

Financial outsourcer HML has released its second white paper. Entitled ‘Agile IT: A value...

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A walk on the supply side

The UK government’s stated goal to build 1.5 million homes during the current parliamentary term underlines a strong political focus on addressing the housing...

Don’t build in fear – quality must come before quotas

“This is my message to housebuilders: get on with it. If you promise homes, you have to build them.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 25...

AI won’t replace mortgage brokers – but those who don’t adapt could be left behind, say industry leaders

Artificial intelligence is set to transform the mortgage industry but it won’t replace the role of the broker, according to a panel of sector...

Why the mortgage industry must digitise for the customer, not just for compliance

Home buyers today can manage their finances, verify their ID and even order a sofa for next-day delivery all from their phones. Yet when...

The BBC’s exposé isn’t news to mortgage advisers – but it might be to the public

Let’s be honest, for mortgage advisers, the recent Panorama investigation into conditional selling by estate agents wasn’t so much a revelation as it was...

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MAB sees revenues rise 19% as adviser productivity strengthens

Mortgage Advice Bureau has posted a robust trading update for the first half of...

Rightmove mortgage revenues double as digital growth strategy pays off

Rightmove has more than doubled the size of its mortgages business in the first...

Market Harborough eases stress tests to support wider range of residential borrowers

Market Harborough Building Society has announced a relaxation of its interest rate stress testing...

CHL Mortgages cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 32bps

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has unveiled sweeping rate cuts across its buy-to-let mortgage range,...