Technology

Slow start for Land Registry e-signatures highlights wider digital integration challenge

The number of Qualified Electronic Signatures used at HM Land Registry reached just five...

Knowledge Bank’s AffCalc passes 50-lender mark

Knowledge Bank’s affordability sourcing platform AffCalc has surpassed 50 lenders, after launching with 33...

What Tony Blair’s AI manifesto means for specialist finance

In Sir Tony Blair’s first intervention in Labour’s leadership battle, the former prime minister...

The Right Mortgage sets out June roadshow programme

The Right Mortgage has announced details of a series of member roadshows taking place...

Fleet joins LMS Panel Link to improve law firm connectivity

Fleet Mortgages has joined LMS Panel Link as the buy-to-let lender looks to improve...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month...

Gen H doubles one-touch underwrites on complex mortgage cases

Gen H has doubled the number of complex mortgage cases receiving a one-touch underwrite...

Rosemount launches AI tool for financial promotions approvals

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has launched an AI tool to help adviser members secure...

OMS Tech Talk considers digital-first mortgage borrowers

Mortgage technology, AI and broker-lender integration were among the central themes at the latest...

Industry needs to move from hoarding data to using it to make decisions

Mortgage lenders have spent the last few years plugging into every available external source,...

Property data sandbox points to wider use of trusted information sharing

A government-backed sandbox has demonstrated how property data can be accessed, verified and shared...

Finova appoints three directors for Manchester technology hub

Finova has appointed three senior technology directors to its Manchester hub as the software...

Rightmove digs in for legal battle as £1.5bn case heads to court

Rightmove has vowed to fight a landmark £1.5 billion legal action brought on behalf...

Q&A: David Jones, Click2Check

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at David Jones, director at digital compliance and onboarding...

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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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Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM)...

Conveyancing costs hold at 0.53% of house prices

Conveyancing costs remained unchanged as a proportion of UK house prices during the year...

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...

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