Technology

Another accolade for Vizolution

Vizolution has won the Technology award at the 2014 Made in Wales awards for...

Paradigm to hold Belfast roundtable event

Paradigm Mortgage Services is heading back to Belfast for its next mortgage and protection...

XRAE now offering critical illness sourcing

Critical illness is now available via iPipeline's new indicative underwriting decision tool, XRAE, which is...

Mortgage Brain launches web-based sourcing solution

Mortgage Brain has announced the launch of MortgageBrain Anywhere, its online mortgage sourcing...

Mortgage27 access now available to lenders and packagers

Mortgage27 has revealed that MortgageSource, its recently released sourcing system for financial intermediaries, is...

Treasury Committee wants answers over infrastructure outage

Technical problems beset the Bank of England's retail-time gross settlement system (RTGS) payment system...

Panacea Adviser revamps website

Panacea Adviser has unveiled a major upgrade of its website, which includes a complete...

Good take-up for Halifax online product transfers

46% of all Halifax mortgage Product Transfers are now being completed online, six months...

Fleet Mortgages reveals servicing partner

Fleet Mortgages has chosen DPR Consulting to provide its full end-to-end mortgage servicing solution. ...

New sourcing system unveiled

Mortgage27 has released MortgageSource, a cloud based mortgage sourcing system for intermediaries. The system considers...

Trigold users get access to Blacks Affinity

Blacks Connect has launched a new proposition, Blacks Affinity, a conveyancing quotation system which...

Brokers: lenders not using enough tech to combat fraud

50% of mortgage brokers think that greater use of technology by lenders when carrying...

Kensington unveils intermediary app

Kensington launched a new app for intermediaries at the Mortgage Business Expo in London...

Target acquires secured loan portfolio

Target Group has gone live with its first acquisition of a secured loan portfolio....

COMMENT

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...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

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Ireland boosts Help to Buy as UK prepares new first-time buyer scheme

Ireland has increased the maximum support available to first-time buyers under its Help to...

Reeves ranked least successful of five recent chancellors in poll

Rachel Reeves has been rated the least successful of the past five chancellors in...

Teachers for Intermediaries raises new-build LTV limit to 95%

Teachers for Intermediaries has increased its maximum LTV on new-build houses and flats to...

Cambridge BS opens applications for deposit-building Rent to Home scheme

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its Rent to Home property in...

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