The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has added credit, anti-money laundering (AML) check and open banking provider, Click2Check, as its latest member.

Click2Check is designed for financial advisers, mortgage intermediaries, estate agents and solicitors and provides client credit reports, digital AML, identity verification reports and open banking transactional data reports.

It aims to accelerate the way advisers conduct their background checks, pulling them together into one place and enabling them to access the information quickly.

Click2Check said the solution aligns with OPDA’s objectives to change the way people buy and sell houses by implementing open data standards and encouraging data sharing.

OPDA works to ensure that every part of the mortgage and property chain shares data in a digital and trusted format.

Chief executive officer at Click2Check, David Jones, said that it is important that more firms join the OPDA to contribute to what they are trying to achieve.

He added: "I have seen first hand the inefficient nature of mortgage processing over twenty years of supplying business solutions to the mortgage sector.

"OPDA’s mission aligns perfectly with our belief that digitising the homebuying process will revolutionise the customer experience, improve property-buying and reduce the time taken to get a mortgage. Click2Check significantly speeds up the process, so joining the OPDA to play an active role was a logical step for us. It is also a step towards achieving our own mission of making things quicker and easier for brokers."

Chair at the OPDA, Marie Harris, concluded: "We are continuing our mission to transform and improve the home buying and selling process. This is gaining support across government and increasingly, through our growing number of members. The more members we gain from all parts of the housing industry, the more quickly the digitisation of transparent, secure and sharable data will be a reality.

"Organisations such as Click2Check who share our goals, help us to turn our mission into a practical solution."

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