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RBS and Barclays trial blockchain tech to slash property transaction times

RBS and Barclays Bank have completed a blockchain trial with R3's distributed ledger software which reduced the time taken to complete a property transaction from three months to less than three weeks.

05 April 2019

News/Mortgage processing

Mortgage blockchain tech startup Acre raises £5m

Acre Software, a UK startup using blockchain technology to revamp the mortgage and insurance application process for advisers, has raised £5 million from Aviva and Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG).

04 April 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

Scotiabank launches new digital mortgage experience

Scotiabank has launched a unique digital mortgage experience, called Scotiabank eHOME, that modernizes how Canadians can get a mortgage.

29 March 2019

News/Mortgage processing

ABN Amro sells majority stake in mortgage admin business to Infosys

ABN Amro has sold a 75% stake in its mortgage administration business to Indian multinational Infosys.

29 March 2019

News/ai

ING takes academic approach to AI

Dutch bank ING is teaming up with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to build an artificial intelligence fintech lab.

28 March 2019

News/Mortgage processing

Nationwide and CreditLadder combine to help renters become homeowners

Nationwide Building Society is teaming up with rent reporting platform CreditLadder to help tenants investigate whether they can become homeowners.

20 March 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

M&S Bank enables faster mortgage applications with open banking

M&S Bank has become one of the first mortgage providers to enable open banking assisted mortgage applications.

27 February 2019

Company update/ai

Ellie Mae bids to reduce manual intervention in the mortgage process with AI Foundry

AI Foundry, a provider of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that significantly streamline and improve business processes, announced a partnership with Ellie Mae® (NYSE:ELLI), a leading provider of innovative on-demand software solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry.

26 February 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

Smartr365 launches ‘MortgageKanban’ workflow tool to smooth mortgage application tracking

Smartr365, the end-to-end fintech mortgage platform, has today launched a new MortgageKanban feature.

18 February 2019

News/startups

Online mortgage broker Mojo raises £7m

UK online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round joined by NVM Private Equity and Maven Capital Partners.

13 February 2019

News/Mortgage processing

Ellie Mae goes under the hammer for $3.7 billion

Mortgage finance software house Ellie Mae is to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.7 billion.

12 February 2019

Company update/retail

Roostify adds Marshall Lux to advisory board

Roostify, the San Francisco-based digital lending platform provider, announced today the addition of financial services consultant Marshall Lux to its advisory board.

07 February 2019

Company update/retail

Fiserv launches mortgage tech

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced a new approach to mortgage technology designed to allow lenders to manage the complex mortgage ecosystem from end-to-end.

04 February 2019

News/startups

AmEx and Goldman Sachs invest in Better Mortgage

US digital mortgage lender Better Mortgage has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round joined by American Express Ventures and Goldman Sachs.

04 February 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

Hoochts appoints former DB analytics lead Will Fisher as CTO

HOOCHT. has today announced the appointment of digital analytics expert Will Fisher as its Chief Technology Officer, in a bid to ‘open up the possibilities of even faster, more convenient online mortgages to more people’.

04 February 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

KBC offers certainty on home loans in just ten minutes

Demand for high-quality properties is intense right now. Anyone who has found the house of their dreams or the ideal building plot doesn’t want – and can’t afford to – wait for days or weeks for an answer from their bank. They need to know as quickly as possible whether they can get a home loan, for how much and at what interest rate.

30 January 2019

News/Mortgage processing

Security lapse exposes millions of mortgage documents

A huge cache of financial documents scanned from paper-based mortgage and credit reports was exposed online in an alleged major security lapse at US data and analytics company Ascension.

25 January 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

Glacier Bancorp elists Roostify for digital mortgage offering

Roostify today announced that Glacier Bancorp, Inc. has launched a digital mortgage solution powered by Roostify. Glacier Bancorp, Inc. is a regional bank holding company providing commercial banking services in 104 communities through 164 banking offices in Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Arizona.

15 January 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

Knowledge Bank launches data insights for mortgage lenders

Knowledge Bank today launches Knowledge Insights. It means for the very first time, the mortgage industry has instant data regarding what mortgages brokers are searching for.

14 January 2019

Company update/Mortgage processing

AimBrain joins ForgeRock Trust Network

AimBrain, the Biometric Identity as-a-Service platform, today announced its place on the ForgeRock Trust Network.

04 December 2018