Technology was a talking point this week, with NatWest backing a mortgage and home buying app and the Nationwide piloting application programming interface technology to reduce rekeying.
Additionally, UK Finance statistics which showed that high street banks were increasing their mortgage lending despite a decline in overall market size proved to be of interest to Mortgage Solutions readers.
Nationwide launches API pilot aiming to cut rekeying by brokers
Mortgage advice industry will have to fight past battles again – Bamford
Brokers unconvinced by Tories’ lifetime fixed rate mortgage proposal ‒ analysis
HSBC opens up further advances and live chat to brokers
Dodgy landlord fined for fourth time over ‘appalling’ conditions
NatWest leading development of mortgage and home buying app
High street banks gain share despite mortgage lending dip – UK Finance
‘No sympathy’ if lenders lose out after taking riskier approach in market share battle ‒ analysis
Santander and NatWest lead multi-DiP platform Mortgage Engine launch
Legal and General Mortgage Club advisers hit record high in October
Shekina is the deputy editor at Mortgage Solutions and commercial editor at Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions. She has nearly eight years of experience in the B2B publishing market, having previously covered the hospitality, retail, pet, accounting and jewellery sectors.
Shekina has worked for Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions for almost five years. Here, she covers the market’s breaking news stories, engages with professionals in the sector, and oversees any commercially agreed content in partnership with mortgage-related companies.
This includes presenting webinars and hosting roundtable discussions on developing themes in the mortgage sector.
She is an NCTJ-trained journalist and was nominated for the Headline Money Awards Mortgage Journalist of the Year in 2021.
In her spare time, Shekina likes to read, travel, listen to music and socialise with friends.
She currently reports on current events in the mortgage market and liaises with financial clients to produce sponsored content.
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