Technology

Crown unveils new origination platform

Crown Mortgage Management has developed an end-to-end solution for new entrants or those looking...

Y3S seeks to use drones

Secured loan packager Y3S is in discussions to adopt a new type of technology...

Big data “key to arrears strategies”

The Charlbury Group has declared that the lending sector now has the ability to...

Exact adopts automated payment system

Exact Mortgage Experts (Exact) has implemented an interactive voice response (IVR) payment solution from...

David Tweedy joins Target Group

Industry veteran David Tweedy has joined the executive committee of Target Group in the...

L&G offers group protection calculator

Legal & General has unveiled a new online group protection calculator. It provides "instant" quotations...

BM Solutions plans weekend system outage

BM Solutions says its systems will be unavailable on Sunday for IS and Mortgages. The...

Masthaven Secured Loans rolling out webinar programme

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) is to use webinars to help brokers get a clear...

Intelliflo hires mortgage proposition head

Intelliflo has announced that John Penn has joined the firm as its head of...

Santander and Vizolution finalists in innovation awards

Santander and Vizolution have jointly been selected as finalists for the 2014 Customer Contact...

Mortgage Brain/Berkeley Alexander integration offer

Mortgage Brain has teamed up with general insurance provider Berkeley Alexander to give Mortgage...

CMC puts Dragonfly deals on Trigold

Brokers can now access Dragonfly Property Finance’s short term mortgage products through Trigold, exclusively...

Vizolution director appointed to CXPA UK Board of Ambassadors

Marcio Rodrigues, customer propositions director at Vizolution has been appointed to the Customer Experience Professionals...

Nationwide improves intermediary apps

Nationwide Building Society has added two new features to its mobile apps for intermediaries. The...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Bridging Soup launches major market research initiative

Bridging Soup has launched a new research initiative to build a clearer picture of...

Just one in seven homes records five years of growth

Fewer than one in seven UK homes increased in value during every year of...

Word On The Street arranges £108m of property finance in record year

Word On The Street arranged more than £108 million of property finance across 239...

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

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