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Byline: Leah Milner A new software development from Iress and Experian will enable brokers to test applicants against lenders' criteria without leaving a hard footprint on their credit files. The [...]

Byline: Sam Barker The Loans Engine is scrapping its master broker fee and replacing it with a single application fee. The new fee is Au295 and will be paid at [...]

Byline: Sam Barker Foundation Home Loans has launched an online broker portal to help simplify mortgage administration. The portal, Technology Enhanced Decisioning, lets introducers complete online DIPs, send applications directly [...]

Byline: Bradley Moore There has been some debate recently about whether brokers should be nervous about the need to hand control of the client over to a master broker. I [...]

Byline: Leah Milner Pressure is mounting on lenders to pay proc fees on retention deals as Cambridge Building Society becomes the first mutual to do so. Currently, Woolwich pays 0.2 [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman Mortgage lenders lobbied the Treasury to extend tougher accountability rules to advisers over fears the regime would create a 'two-tier system' for mortgage advice. Banks and building [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Lenders will look to slash mortgage rates again in the fourth quarter as they struggle to hit their year-end lending targets, brokers say. Over the past month, [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Lenders are talking with technology providers to develop a solution where they can evaluate brokers on an individual basis. Presently, lenders have information at a firm level [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Former Prestige Finance director Simon Stern has joined secured loan broker Fluent Money as a non-executive director. Stern left second charge lender Prestige last year, having joined [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Airdrie Savings Bank has made its first major entry into the broker market. Previously, the lender had ties with a few local brokers but it has now [...]

Byline: Devraj Ray Brokers have slammed lenders for being irresponsible after new research shows banks and building societies are still trying to tempt borrowers with attractive two-year rates over safer [...]

Byline: Devraj Ray Just under one in four brokers say they have not yet got the interim permissions required to offer secured loans, according to a survey conducted by packager [...]

Byline: Steve Walker, Managing Director, Promise Solutions For the secured loans market D-Day is almost upon us. In less than a week's time the market will become regulated by the [...]

Byline: Francis Mogg, director, Promoco Now is an ideal time for lenders and intermediaries to collaborate to create a customer-centred mortgage outsourcing process Like a pendulum, so the balance of [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Brokers could force lenders to reveal why they have been removed from a panel by taking advantage of a rule within the Data Protection Act. In recent [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Brokers could force lenders to reveal why they have been removed from a panel by taking advantage of a rule within the Data Protection Act. In recent [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas 'This decision has destroyed my livelihood. Since being struck off panel, I have been told I can no longer be a member of my network, other lenders [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Brokers are predicting a high loan-to-value rate war as more lenders enter the second phase of Help to Buy. As yet, only Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, [...]

Byline: Devraj Ray Secured loans broker The Loans Engine has appointed Thomas Garratt as head of intermediary development. Garratt started his career as a trainee IFA in 1996 and joins [...]

Byline: Devraj Ray Brokers and lenders have rejected claims by Labour that high mortgage fees could be the anext big scandala and say they demonstrate a lack of knowledge of [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas Countrywide financial services director Nigel Stockton has warned that the industry is facing a broker recruitment crisis. Speaking at the Financial Services Expo in London today, Stockton [...]

Byline: Nigel Stockton, financial services director at Countrywide There is an unstoppable sense of optimism building in the broker mortgage market - but what is fuelling it? We have seen [...]

Byline: Paul Thomas The mortgage market's resurgence has prompted 50 per cent of intermediary lenders to increase the number of brokers they work with during 2013, according to research by [...]

Byline: John Eastgate, sales and marketing director, OneSavings Bank and Kent Reliance I am writing this article as I sit in a car dealership waiting for my car to be [...]

Byline: Henry Brennan Brokers have slammed the new independent supervisory body for payday lenders as 'toothless' as it has no power to revoke firms' consumer credit licences. The Consumer Finance [...]

Byline: Robert Thickett The Building Societies Association has criticised the Mortgage Market Review's stance on full advice as being too focused on brokers, with lenders an afterthought. It warns that [...]

Byline: Robert Thickett Fast-track has not been banned by the Financial Services Authority in its latest Mortgage Market Review consultation paper - but under the new proposals brokers will be [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman Over a third, 35%, of intermediaries believe not enough lenders offer mortgages for more than Au500,000, research by Kensington reveals. In a survey of 680 mortgage brokers, [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman A number of lenders are not employing due diligence in the management of their broker panels, according to the Financial Services Authority's Mortgage Fraud Thematic Review. Speaking [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman Increasing product choice and competition in the short-term lending market is providing opportunities for brokers and their customers, according to Paradigm Mortgage Services. The firm is urging [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman Portal Portfolio has seen a rise of over 100% in brokers seeking secured loans for their clients as opposed to remortgage deals, the firm claims. It says [...]

Byline: Natalie Thomas Only seven mortgage brokers have reported suspected fraudulent activity by lenders to the Financial Services Authority in the last seven years. Copyright: Centaur Media Plc. and [...]

Byline: Samuel Dale Lenders may rely more on brokers rather than sell direct after the Mortgage Market Review paper on distribution and disclosure, says Stephen Smith, director of housing and [...]

Byline: Natalie Thomas Some72% of intermediaries claim that lenders do not have a good understanding of their needs and issues. Charterhouse Research shows intermediaries believe their voice is going unheard [...]

Byline: Natalie Thomas Mortgage industry trade bodies have released a guide for lenders and brokers, outlining what responsibilities each should take in the mortgage sales process. The Association of Mortgage [...]

Byline: Samuel Dale Concerns are being raised over mortgage brokers being kicked off lenders' panels for minor errors. This week's Mortgage Strategy magazine reveals how there have been reports that [...]

Byline: Samuel Dale The number of intermediaries used by lenders could drop by up to 60% after the Mortgage Market Review. All but one lender surveyed in a Financial Services [...]