Mortgage Brain has announced that West One has become the latest lender to go live on its systems, reaching over 15,000 mortgage brokers across the UK. Specialist lender West One will now have residential, buy-to-let, and second charge products available to Mortgage Brain customers through both its sourcing solutions, Sourcing Brain, and Criteria Brain. West One’s portfolio of second charge products for residential and buy-to-let borrowers has seen the firm become one of the UK’s fastest growing second charge lenders.

Just Mortgages has launched a series of online mental health workshops for principals at their broker firms to help them promote mental health support for individual brokers. The workshop topics include “stress management” and “how to manage your team’s mental health”. Just Mortgages said the workshops are designed to complement the wellbeing part of a broker’s management induction which helps managers recognise the early signs of mental health issues. Managers are also taught the correct approach to take to offer brokers the confidential support that is available and how to access it.

Access Financial Services (Access FS) has announced the launch of a new administrative service for its brokers. The service, which has been in a pilot for the past four months, has proven to free up to 70% of a broker’s time, with some trebling the amount of mortgage and protection business they write since the scheme has been in place. The administration team service will support brokers by helping to fill in application forms, to get a successful decision in principle (DiP), check each fact find is complete, chase customers for supporting information, then review documents ensuring every file is compliant and prepared for sign-off, Access FS revealed.

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Uliana Kuzmis as deputy managing director within its Development Finance division. Kuzmis joins HTB following seven years at Octopus Group, where she was most recently head of development finance (light). She will report to HTB managing director, development finance, Alex Upton.

360 Dotnet has announced that its wealth and mortgage platform, 360 Lifecycle, has streamlined the general insurance (GI) journey with Uinsure. 360 has enhanced its buildings and contents quotation process to allow greater customisation within its fact find and updated the results pages to provide more user information. Following the adoption of Uinsure’s API suite, 360 has enhanced the GI sourcing process to allow advisers to modify their GI requirements. The move will allow advisers to retrieve their quotes efficiently, making the process of generating a quote while providing mortgage advice quicker and easier.

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