Technology

Step One added to Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE

Twenty7Tec has announced that Step One has added its secured loans product range to the...

Sancus joins Knowledge Bank platform

Sancus has joined the Knowledge Bank platform as a short-term property finance provider. Knowledge Bank...

New website for Black & White Bridging

Short term lender, Black & White Bridging (B&W), has launched a new website to...

Coventry BS introduces new customer affordability tool

Coventry Building Society has launched a new online affordability tool to help mortgage customers...

MBT Affordability to launch to Countrywide advisers

MBT Affordability's partnership with estate agency and property services provider Connells Group will be...

Target Group assigns £10m to customer experience transformation

Target Group has announced a commitment to ‘transforming customer experiences.’ At the unveiling of its...

Bluestone Mortgages to take part in MyIdentity pilot

Etive Limited, coordinators of the MyIdentity scheme for home buying and selling, has revealed...

Tenet boosts client vulnerability support for advisers

Tenet Compliance Services (TCS) has strengthened its support for Directly Authorised advisers by introducing...

MTF Affordability upgrades research platform

Mortgage Broker Tools has upgraded its affordability research platform, adding bespoke calculations for borrowers...

Twenty7Tec integrates CloudTwenty7 with Together

Twenty7Tec has integrated its CloudTwenty7 platform with specialist lender Together. Users of CloudTwenty7 now...

Key to embed AI into its customer service

Key has partnered with speech analytics platform Aveni.ai to add artificial intelligence to its...

OMS integrates with Submissions Brain

One Mortgage System (OMS) has become the first third-party system to integrate with Submissions...

SmartSearch appoints new CEO

SmartSearch has announced the appointment of Guy Harrison as its new CEO. Harrison (pictured) is tasked with...

Impact Specialist Finance exclusives now on MortgageBrain

All of Impact Specialist Finance's exclusive and semi-exclusive products can now be sourced on...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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The Market Harborough reaches £1m community funding milestone

Market Harborough Building Society said it has committed £1 million to community causes over...

Accord publishes broker guide on recognising economic abuse in mortgage cases

Accord has published a new guide for mortgage brokers on how to identify and...

CHL completes £5m portfolio refinance as lender navigates time-sensitive case

CHL Mortgages has completed a £5 million refinance across 10 buy-to-let properties in south...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five...

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