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Research/Mortgage processing

From Surviving to Thriving: Digital Customer Engagement beyond Video Conferencing

29 July 2021 206 downloads

Research/Mortgage processing

Responding to Lending Disruption

27 July 2021 604 downloads

News/retail

Starling Bank acquires Fleet Mortgages for £50 million

Starling Bank has made its first acquisition, shelling out £50 million for the buy-to-let lending operation of Hampshire-based Fleet Mortgages.

26 July 2021

News/startups

Australian rent-to-own startup OwnHome raises $3.6 million

OwnHome, an Australian rent-to-own scheme for millennials, has bagged $3.6 million in funds from investors including Global Founders Capital, Entrée Capital, AfterWork and InVentures.

23 July 2021

News/sustainable

Danske Bank introduces carbon neutral mortgage

Danske Bank's Northern Ireland unit has launched the UK’s first mortgage to be certified as carbon neutral.

19 July 2021

Company update/sustainable

Leeds Building Society assess impact of climate change on mortgage portfolio with Hometrack

Leeds Building Society, the UK’s fifth-largest building society, has agreed a new Climate Change Risk contract with Hometrack, the leading provider of insight and intelligence to the UK mortgage market.

16 July 2021

News/retail

Volt acquires Australian Mortgage

Australian neobank Volt has acquired fintech lender Australian Mortgage to speed up the mortgage approval process as part of its banking-as-a-service offering.

15 July 2021

News/retail

Better buys UK online mortgage broker Trussle

Better HoldCo, a digital platform that helps Americans buy homes, has acquired UK online mortgage broker Trussle Lab. Financial terms were not disclosed.

13 July 2021

Company update/inclusion

Finastra becomes Diamond Plus Nammba partner

The National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA) and Finastra have partnered to bring about positive change in the mortgage industry, meeting the needs of underserved communities and developing a more diverse mortgage workforce.

12 July 2021

News/retail

RVU to acquire digital mortgage startup Mojo

RVU, owner of Uswitch, Confused.com and Money.co.uk, is taking on the UK mortgages sector by agreeing to acquire Mojo Mortgages.

12 July 2021

Company update/wholesale

Atom Bank passes £3bn mortgage completions and £1bn savings deposits

Atom Bank, the UK’s first app-based bank, achieved two significant milestones this week when it exceeded £3bn of residential mortgage completions and on the same day hit £1bn in deposits into its Instant Saver accounts.

07 July 2021

Company update/retail

Molo Finance partners with Mortgage Advice Bureau

As a fully digital lender, Molo Finance underwrites all mortgages online using technology to speed up lending while providing a seamless and paperless experience for customers.

06 July 2021

News/startups

Online mortgage broker Tomo raises $70 million in seed financing

Home buying fintech startup Tomo, led by former Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong, has logged one of the largest seed rounds in history, scooping $70 million just eight months after founding.

02 July 2021

Company update/retail

TSB goes live on Mortgage Brain's Lendex

Momentum continues to build behind Lendex, the multi-lender application and submission gateway from mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain, with TSB the latest lender to go live on the system.

01 July 2021

Company update/startups

Digital mortage lender Accept.inc raises $90 million in debt and equity

Accept.inc, a pioneering fintech mortgage lender bringing all cash offers to residential real estate, today announced it has raised $90 million in debt and equity, with lead participation from Signal Fire, as well as existing seed investors Y Combinator and DN Capital.

29 June 2021

Company update/sustainable

Danske Bank launches 'carbon neutral' mortgage

Danske Bank in Northern Ireland has launched the UK’s first mortgage to be certified as carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust.

28 June 2021

Company update/retail

Hometrack chooses Moneyhub as open banking partner

Following a rigorous selection process, Hometrack, the leading provider of insight and intelligence to the UK mortgage market, has appointed Moneyhub, the award-winning Open Finance data, intelligence, and payments platform for customer-centric organisations, as its preferred open banking partner.

24 June 2021

Company update/startups

Home finance platform Lower raises $100 million

Lower, the millennial and Gen-Z focused home finance platform with more than 16,000 reviews averaging five-stars, has raised $100 million in its Series A Funding round, led by venture capital firm Accel.

23 June 2021

Company update/retail

Mojo Mortgages arrives on GoCompare

Online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages has partnered with GoCompare to bring new levels of financial confidence to millions of people.

14 June 2021

Company update/people

Habito's Cassie Stephenson finds a new home at Mojo Mortgages

Online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages has announced the appointment of Cassie Stephenson as its new director of mortgages as the business looks to scale its team to 50 mortgage advisers across the UK over the next 12 months.

03 June 2021