Technology

MQube partners with Thought Machine for ‘real-time’ decisioning

MQube, the parent company of mortgage lender MPowered Mortgages, has partnered with Thought Machine,...

Smartr365 tool to aid Legal & General Mortgage Club procuration fee payments

Smartr365 has announced the launch of a tool to automatically sync procuration fee claim...

SmartSearch adds TransUnion to platform

SmartSearch has added global information and insights company, TransUnion, to its identity-check partners. SmartSearch now...

Tmgroup integrates with LMS for financial fraud protection

LMS, the conveyancing services provider, has announced a new partnership with tmgroup, a tech...

Advise Wise extends CRM for Consumer Duty

Advise Wise has improved its sourcing platform into a fully fledged CRM system to...

Nivo to hold exclusive second charge event

Fintech firm Nivo is holding its first ever ‘NivoCon’ event on 4 May in...

Equifax partners with Spear Technologies to help with access to finance

Equifax UK has announced a new partnership with Spear Technology, a provider of short-term...

InfoTrack integrates with LMS Secure Link

LMS has revealed that InfoTrack, a digital conveyancing provider, has integrated with Secure Link...

Bluestone Mortgages introduces platform for specialist cases

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the launch of its new digital platform, Bluesky. The platform has...

OSB Group partners with Paylink Solutions

OSB Group has entered into a multi-term partnership with fintech Paylink Solutions. Utilising Paylink’s Embark...

Acre secures £6.5m investment

Acre has secured £6.5 million in investment to grow its technology platform and to...

LendInvest launches Mortgage Tech Meetup Series

LendInvest has launched a new Mortgage Tech Meetup event series, which will be bringing property...

The Money Platform adopts LendingMetrics’ ADP

Peer-to-peer lender The Money Platform is partnering with LendingMetrics to use its Auto Decision...

Zurich joins CIExpert’s Insight Zone

CIExpert has announced that Zurich has become the latest insurer to join its Insight...

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I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

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...

Latest news

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43%

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43 percentage points, with...

Mortgage Brain embeds LMS conveyancing service into CRM Brain

Mortgage Brain has integrated the LMS Select conveyancing platform directly into CRM Brain, allowing...

House prices stall as mortgage costs and Budget uncertainty weigh on market

UK house prices were unchanged in September as higher mortgage rates and wider economic...

Remortgage activity rebounds as higher rates weigh on home purchases

Remortgage applications returned to annual growth in the third quarter, helping to offset a...

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