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12 financial services industry leaders reflect on the year and share their predictions for 2022

The shadow of the pandemic has loomed over the Australian economy for a second year. Australian Broker talks to 12 financial services industry leaders, who reflect on the challenges and achievements of 2021 and share their expectations for the year ahead

Industry Benchmark Reporting supports aggregators, lenders

The mutual bank has upgraded its ApplyOnline package to help deliver a processing “fast lane” for brokers.

MKM launches digital loan application tools subscribe A A Non-bank lender MKM has teamed with technology provider NextGen.Net to revamp its electronic lodgement and loan acquisition process. MKM has gone live with a full suite of NextGen.Net ApplyOnline tools, including its lodgement tool, compliance checks, and digital signatures and borrower ID. Previously, brokers had interacted with the lender via email. NextGen.Net customer account manager Mike Ponsonby reported the result has “digitised...

NextGen.Net appoints head of broker subscribe A NextGen.Net has appointed its inaugural national head of broker partnerships.  The technology solutions provider to the lending industry has announced that it has created the new role as a “key part of the customer engagement team”. It has welcomed Suncorp’s former national partnerships manager - bank intermediaries, Renee Blethyn, into the role of national head of broker partnerships. Ms Blethyn started in her new position last week (1...

Non-bank lender adopts digital compliance tech subscribe Sarah Buckley Sarah Buckley A A A non-bank lender has said that it is moving to “speed up and streamline” loan applications after adopting digital compliance technology. Better Choice Home Loans has announced that it has adopted NextGen.Net’s compliance technology into its current application experience through ApplyOnline. Better Choice’s executive director, Allan Savins, said the move would help digitise the experience, “cutti...