Technology

AML specialist warns of hard copy risks

Nearly two-thirds of regulated firms believe hard copy documents provide reassurance a customer is...

Coventry for intermediaries offers soft footprint credit checks for AIPs

Coventry for intermediaries has launched soft footprint credit checks for Agreements In Principle, which...

Duologi goes live with LendingMetrics’ ADP

Payment partner Duologi has gone live with LendingMetrics' Auto Decision Platform (ADP). Duologi, which...

Paymentshield launches new self-serve platform

Paymentshield has introduced a new self-serve platform, which will enable customers to service their...

Bath Building Society launches lending criteria chatbot

Bath Building Society has teamed up with Consectus to launch a conversational AI chat...

MPowered Mortgages’ prime residential criteria added to SmartrCriteria

MPowered Mortgages has announced that its prime residential mortgage criteria will be available on...

The holy grail for lending

Ask any mortgage or credit provider to name their top 10 customer origination challenges...

Paradigm partners with Twenty7tec

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a new partnership with sourcing and technology platform provider,...

Even added to Twenty7tec

Twenty7tec has announced that Even, a new lender to market offering a bespoke solution...

Two lenders sign up to PEXA platform

PEXA has revealed that both Hinckley & Rugby Building Society and Shawbrook Bank will...

Iress appoints head of engineering for mortgages

Iress has appointed Steve Green as head of engineering, mortgages. He will be responsible...

Mortgage Magic unveils digital package for brokers

Mortgage Magic has introduced a digital package aimed at helping brokers to revamp their...

360 Dotnet sees 22% increase in lending for Q2

360 Dotnet has reported a string second quarter. After £10.7 billion in total lending -...

OMS and Connect extend technology agreement

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced that Connect for Intermediaries has renewed its tech...

COMMENT

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...

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TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

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...

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