Technology

Connect Overseas system at Trigold seminar

Connect Overseas will be demonstrating its foreign mortgages sourcing system at the Trigold Birmingham roadshow...

EU data protection reforms

In January the European Commission (EC) announced that the EU’s current system of data...

New Bridging Solutions broker site

Bridging Solutions has launched a new website. The south coast based intermediary bridging firm has...

Mortgages for Business unveils BTL iPhone app

Mortgages for Business has launched Buy To Let, a free iPhone app for residential...

Masthaven chooses Phoebus Software solution

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has adopted Phoebus Software’s secured loans origination and servicing solutions...

Mortgage Brain app passes 20,000 milestone

Mortgage Brain’s mobile app has been downloaded over 20,000 times since its launch. The...

West One Loans introduces text service

Bridging lender West One Loans has unveiled an SMS service. The service is designed...

Data protection needs to be reassessed

Last month cloud-storage company Dropbox learnt they were at serious risk of computer hacking...

Two more insurers on Quote and Buy

Ageas and Legal & General are now offering home insurance products via Berkeley Alexander's...

Sense Network opts for MortgageBrain

Sense Network has chosen select Mortgage Brain’s sourcing system as its preferred sourcing solution...

miLoan passes eight figure milestone

Y3S’s secured and bridging loan sourcing system has achieved £10 million in loan completions...

Pure360 improves CRM integration

Pure360 has integrated with Sugar customer relationship management (CRM). Sugar is a CRM...

Making sense of all that data

I believe it was Donald Rumsfeld who made the following mind bending statement: "There...

New intermediary front-end from Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank says it has streamlined its secured lending process. The lender has launched a...

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

First-time buyer affordability remains strained despite narrowing house price gap

Only 12.1% of potential first-time buyers can afford the average starter home in their...

Royal London targets GP report delays with digital service

Royal London is expanding its use of digital medical evidence in an effort to...

Equifinance names Jackie Burchill as lending operations director

Equifinance has appointed Jackie Burchill as director of lending operations as the second charge...

House price-to-income ratio falls to 11-year low as mortgage costs rise

The gap between UK house prices and earnings has narrowed to its lowest level...

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