News in brief - 4 July

- Legal & General has launched its refreshed leading mortgage research and sourcing platform, Legal & General Ignite, which will build on existing offerings to deliver a raft of new features to advisers. The upgraded platform will replace Legal & General’s SmartrFit tool, mirroring the company’s mission to ignite change towards an efficient, technology-led mortgage journey for brokers and their clients. Legal & General Ignite offers advisers a whole of market comparison service with access to 130 lenders. Advisers will also have access to second charge and bridging lending types, as well as packager, product transfer, and direct product information. In addition, the platform will continue to provide advisers with integrated affordability calculators, client criteria, product sourcing and property checking functionality for free, via an all-in-one interface.

- Pepper Money has launched a new section of its website to help brokers to market their business more effectively to new and existing customers. As part of its investment in supporting brokers to succeed and further building on broker/lender relationships, the specialist lender has created a dedicated area of its website to provide information on the steps to consider before setting up a marketing campaign, including practical tips and insights into different customer types.

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