Technology

AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for...

MorganAsh backs inclusion drive but urges improvement in vulnerability data

MorganAsh has given its support to the Government’s refreshed Financial Inclusion Strategy, but warned...

Mortgage Brain and Lloyds Banking Group launch first digital Halifax full mortgage application

Mortgage Brain and Lloyds Banking Group have introduced the first digital Full Mortgage Application...

Phoebus gains SBTi validation as it accelerates net zero strategy

Mortgage servicing software firm Phoebus has had its emissions reduction plans formally validated by...

PM Data Services launch Genie buy-to-let sourcing engine

PM Data Services – the team behind digital broker Property Master - has launched...

Mortgage Brain adds Rely to sourcing platform

Mortgage Brain has added OSB Group’s newly launched buy-to-let lender, Rely, to its Sourcing...

Kennek joins BDLA as trade body expands technology partnerships

Technology firm kennek has joined the Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) as an...

Clients seek reassurance amid Budget uncertainty

Consumers are placing growing value on financial advice as speculation ahead of the Budget...

Pivotal adopts AI-driven suitability checks in bid to raise compliance standards

Pivotal Group is rolling out an AI-powered compliance system across its mortgage services arm...

Why UPRNs and data standards are central to the next generation NLIS

In October 2025, through the Fourth Round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF), Government’s...

MQube unveils AI-driven underwriting tool to speed mortgage approval

MQube has introduced an AI-powered digital underwriting feature to its Origo platform in a...

Brokers report surge in limited company buy-to-let demand

Three-quarters of brokers have seen growing demand for limited company buy-to-let products over the...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping...

OneDome named among UK’s fastest-growing tech firms

Property and fintech platform OneDome has been ranked 17th in the 2025 Deloitte UK...

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

Target Group adds Carla Stent to board

Target Group has appointed Carla Stent as a non-executive director, adding further financial services,...

Later life lending summit to focus on changing advice needs

Mortgage advisers will be encouraged to consider how longer borrowing lives and increasingly complex...

National Friendly launches mortgage-linked income protection cover

National Friendly has launched a short-term income protection product designed to cover mortgage payments...

Side hustles helping first-time buyers reach deposit targets sooner

Almost two-thirds of prospective first-time buyers are using additional sources of income to help...

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