Technology

Berkeley Alexander upgrades back office system

Berkeley Alexander has completed its back office systems upgrade project after 12 months work. The...

Over 700,000 hit by Nationwide ‘error’

Nationwide Building Society has admitted that 704,426 accounts had amounts wrongly debited twice earlier...

Connect Overseas launches sourcing system

Connect Overseas has unveiled a white label, foreign mortgage sourcing system for brokers. The international...

HML espouses ‘agile’ with white paper

Financial outsourcer HML has released its second white paper. Entitled ‘Agile IT: A value...

The Cambridge introduces new app processing system

The Cambridge Building Society has unveiled a new system to keep customers better informed...

Y3S introduces miLoan 3.0

Y3S has rolled out a new and updated version of miLoanbroker.com to mark the...

UKmortgages app expands platform base

The UKmortgages app is now available on the iPad and Android devices. The free app,...

Mortgage Brain offers link to MMS’s Keystone products

Mortgage Brain has teamed up with Marketing and Management Services Ltd (MMS) to give...

New mortgage fraud alert software to be developed

Technology solutions provider Milestone is to develop a mortgage fraud alert software system with...

Lighthouse moves over to MortgageBrain

Lighthouse Group plc has adopted MortgageBrain as its preferred sourcing solution for its advisers. Lighthouse’s...

Embrace the cloud

Cloud computing can be the perfect solution for many businesses, argues Paul Hunt, managing...

TMW Online service update

The Mortgage Works' (TMW) online service will be unavailable for large parts of the...

Focus improves consumer portal proposition

Focus enhances its ‘Direct to Consumer’ execution only consumer portal, focus:360° consumer. Focus Solutions...

Mortgage Brain pleased with initial app take-up

Mortgage Brain’s mobile application solution, has been accessed and used over 10,000 times, the...
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COMMENT

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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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