Technology

Effective startup funding is key

Keeping up with the latest technological innovations is fundamental to business success and laws...

In Brief: planned BM Solutions’ ‘outage’

BM Solutions says it will be performing essential maintenance on its system over the...

First Complete in protection clawback alert scheme

First Complete is now offering a new notification system to let its members know...

Vizolution makes top 50 ‘watchlist’

Vizolution has been included in the 2013 FinTech50 Watchlist, a shortlist of 50 companies...

PruProtect offers new protection client email tool

PruProtect has unveiled a free personalised email campaign service for intermediaries. The Connect tool, which...

Coventry Building Society to use Vizolution screen sharing

Coventry Building Society is to utilise Vizolution’s screen sharing technology vScreen to improve its...

Paragon unveils app for case management

Paragon has launched a case management iPhone app for brokers. The bespoke portal and...

Amendments made to Broker Conveyancing website and online portal

Broker Conveyancing has relaunched its website and online portal offering. The changes to the website...

RBS systems break down again

Thousands of customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, Nat West and Ulster Bank were...

Keystone launches online mortgage illustration service

Keystone is now offering brokers wanting to give their landlord clients a detailed...

RDR has contracted the adviser market

There was much speculation in the lead-up to the implementation of the RDR about...

UK banking behind on technology

The bank of the future holds many layers of mystery and unimaginable scope for...

Xit2 hires commercial director

Stuart Webster has been appointed commercial director at xit2. Webster comes to the mortgage...

Marlborough Stirling takes chunk of Canadian market

Mortgage technology provider Marlborough Stirling, part of Vertex Financial Services, has announced a series...

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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