Mortgage Brain’s criteria sourcing system, Criteria Brain, has 88 lenders live, a new high for the platform.
According to Criteria Brain, this accounts for more than 95 per cent of the UK intermediary first charge residential mortgage market. This is based on gross lending figures for first charge residential lending for 2020 from UK Finance.
Recent lender additions to the platform include Shawbrook Bank, CHL Mortgages and Generation Home.
It added that it had also seen a “substantial increase” in the number of intermediaries using the platform over the past year.
Criteria Brain, previously known at Criteria Hub, was launched in 2017 and hit its 80-lender milestone with MPowered Mortgages last year.
Neil Wyatt (pictured), sales and marketing director at Mortgage Brain, said: “One of the big challenges faced by mortgage brokers over the last couple of years has been the speed at which lenders adapt their criteria.
“Criteria Brain is designed to make keeping up with those criteria changes, and finding the right lender for your client, much easier and the response we’ve had from brokers shows that it’s making a tangible difference to their day-to-day workload.”
Criteria Brain users can access masterclasses for free, which in the past have covered self-employed, holiday lets, and limited company lending in the buy-to-let market.
There is an upcoming masterclass on 2 March examining lending in retirement.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
