Technology

Octane’s buy-to-let deals added to Iress platform

Octane Capital has partnered with Iress, so all intermediaries using Iress will be able...

Finsec joins Knowledge Bank platform

Specialist second charge and secured business loan lender, Finsec, has added its criteria to...

OMS completes second charge API integration with West One

One Mortgage System (OMS) has finalised a complete API integration with West One for...

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries added to Submissions Brain

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has become the first regional building society to go...

Sourcing system reveals UK lender total

There are around 900 lenders in the UK covering an wide variety of finance...

Searches down for borrowers with complex financial situations

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool found that searches for capital raising mortgages...

Coventry BS appoints chief information and digital officer

The Coventry Building Society has appointed Jayne Showell as its chief information and digital...

Advise Wise unveils product comparison feature

Advise Wise has launched a product comparison feature on its later life platform. The feature...

Criterion to act as equity release API standards custodian

Criterion, a not-for-profit standards and governance services body, has taken on the stewardship of...

Cloud-based mortgage software provider acquired

Finova has acquired BEP Systems, the provider of cloud-based mortgage and savings software in...

Octane Capital joins MBT Affordability BTL panel

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added Octane Capital to the buy-to-let panel on its...

The Darlington enhances digital offering

The Darlington Building Society has made major investment in digital banking services. The mutual...

September fall in 95%+ LTV mortgage searches

Twenty7Tec has published its monthly mortgage market data for September 2021. The mortgage technology...

Online mortgage broker launches to non-high street customers

An online mortgage broker, Haysto, has this week launched for customers who don’t fit...

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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First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

Property firms still relying on manual checks as AI fraud risk grows

More than half of identity verification checks in UK finance and property businesses are...

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