Technology

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...

Land Registry allows free access to historic price paid data

All Land Registry’s historic price paid data of over 18 million sales is now...

Vizolution unveils web chat for advisers and clients

Vizolution has launched a new web chat capability for advisers or agents speaking to...

Technology forcing small businesses to work harder

Nearly half of 'microbusinesses' and sole traders in the UK believe that they now...

Mortgage27 teams up with Greenlight

Mortgage27 is to partner with digital marketing agency Greenlight to provide a detailed monthly...

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...

Latest news

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...

Life changes could create new wave of accidental landlords

Changes in personal circumstances rather than investment plans could push more homeowners into the...

Remortgage searches jump 40% as borrowers return after summer

Remortgage activity drove a sharp rise in mortgage searches during September, with Twenty7tec recording...

Step One Finance adopts OMS origination platform

Step One Finance has introduced a bespoke loan origination system developed with One Mortgage...

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