Technology

Management buy-out at Direct Life

Direct Life is being acquired by its managing director Rob Quayle and sales and marketing...

PFS launches new events app

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has unveiled a new interactive events app. The aim is...

Major investment for Vizolution

Vizolution has received £5m in new equity investment to drive product development and international...

Target Group appoints CCO

Target Group has announced the appointment of Jeremy Edwards as its chief client officer...

Atom bank “now fully open”

Atom Bank is now open to all customers. It initially launched with an ‘invitation only’ phase,...

TRMPN chooses SolutionBuilder

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has adopted iPipeline's research, quote and apply portal SolutionBuilder. SolutionBuilder is a...

Promise reports “best ever month”

Promise Specialist Lending has revealed that its September second charge completions were up more than...

Landbay introduces postcode search widget

Peer-to-peer lender Landbay has launched an online tool that allows tenants and landlords to compare...

SimplyBiz Mortgages teams up with Twenty7Tec

SimplyBiz Mortgages has partnered with Twenty7Tec Group to offer its club members access to the Twenty7Tec...

The Leeds expands software delivery team

The Leeds Building Society has appointed a new manager in its software delivery team. Louise...

Market study into digital comparison tools

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market study into digital comparison...

iPipeline integrates with the Key

An integration between iPipeline’s SolutionBuilder and Mortgage Brain’s CRM system, the Key, means advisers...

Promise integrates technology with Shawbrook

Promise Specialist Lending has completed XML integration with Shawbrook. This represents its seventh second charge...

LendInvest goes live with LOT11

The partnership between online mortgage lender LendInvest and LOT11 has now gone live. The arrangement sees LendInvest pre-qualify...

COMMENT

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...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Latest news

Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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