In Brief

Hair is joint senior partner of Hair and Son Estate Agents and has been a member of the NAEA for 25 years.

Williams has been a vociferous president and introduced the technical awards for estate agents to encourage competency in the industry

TMB launches online mortgage processing

The Mortgage Business (TMB), the self-certification, flexible and buy-to-let specialist lender, is launching a new online mortgage processing service for intermediaries - TMB Interactive. TMB said the new system will speed up the whole mortgage process. It will also help intermediaries and packagers process cases more quickly and, in most cases, will give an instant online decision with an immediate agreement in principle (AIP).

ifs agrees testing deal with Pearson Vue

The Institute of Financial Services (ifs) has agreed a four-year link-up with Pearson Vue, the electronic test centre providers.

The deal secures 150 UK-based testing centres for the full range of ifs professional qualifications and a further 3,500 centres around the globe.

ifs is the leading provider of mortgage advice qualifications in the UK and also offers all other qualifications needed to operate within a financial sphere regulated by the FSA.