Charlotte Grimshaw, Head of Intermediaries at the society will represent the platform at IMLA meetings and events.

The new partnership follows the society's recent launch of its new mortgage origination platform.

HTB recently restructured its Specialist Mortgages business development team to enhance broker support and create a clear career progression path.

Financial advisers still top the list of trusted financial information sources.

Married men over 50, living in London or the South East, are the most likely to receive financial advice.

Taphouse was previously head of business transformation at Zurich.

34% of advisers pointed to increased demand for advice and regulatory changes as major challenges. 

Over a third (35%) of IFAs regard tax changes as one of their biggest challenges – an 8 point increase since last year’s Autumn Budget.

Economists were upbeat about the better-than-forecast GDP figures for Q4, but warned that the UK economy is not out of the woods yet.

Integration of AI aims to to take annual review report production from five minutes to under five seconds.