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Broker Capital secures $40m debt facility to fund trail book lending

Specialist lender to mortgage brokers moves from $3.2 million in private funds to institutional backing one year after its first loan

Thinktank lifts lending limits across residential, commercial products suites

Changes come shortly after Sydney-based non-bank lender celebrates 20th birthday

Focus Finance’s Katie Thomas on the art of being underqualified

Back-to-back Broker of the Year on stepping off the tools, coaching her team and hiring her former boss’s boss

AFG’s David Bailey: ‘We are a bellwether for the mortgage industry’

Aggregation boss delivers sharp words on government policy, a cooling market and first-home buyers as annual conference kicks off in Melbourne

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Motivation

Better Mortgage Management at 27: still rolling with the punches

Twenty-seven years, one GFC and an SMSF lending ban later, BMM founder Murray Cowan isn’t buying the crisis talk

TV

Bigger brokerages chase growth without losing clients

Liberty on helping brokers navigate complex lending scenarios

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What Gerald Foley learned building nMB over 25 years

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MORTGAGE INDUSTRY

Open banking at tipping point as usage surges

Mortgage applications using open banking data see over threefold increase on NextGen

Open banking at tipping point as usage surges

Mortgage applications using open banking data see over threefold increase on NextGen

Major Aussie banks slap mortgage holders with higher rates following RBA hike

RBA’s fifth rise of 2026 triggers immediate responses from ANZ, CBA, Westpac, and ING

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‘The main constraint on AI adoption will not be tools or investment — but the availability of skilled professionals’

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