One Mortgage System (OMS), the single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has partnered with second charge specialist lender Step One Finance to complete a full Application Programming Interface (API) integration.
The integration will see OMS users benefit from direct access to Step One’s innovative lending proposition and enable them to conduct a full decision in principle without the need to rekey any data.
This will incorporate a full two-way API to help support and speed up the advice process, sourcing and delivery.
Step One Finance was established in 2010. The lender designs and delivers creative consumer loan products based on traditional values of transparency and responsibility.
It has also recently unveiled a greatly enhanced website and broker portal to increase functionality and provide brokers with quick initial price indications and less cumbersome information requirements.
OMS is the only end-to-end CRM system which covers product areas such as residential, buy-to-let, second charge, equity release, bridging, commercial plus general insurance and protection.
It has already integrated with six market-leading platforms – Iress, Twenty7Tec, iPipeline, Submissions Brain, SmartrFit and Knowledge Bank – to provide users with best in class for product sourcing, protection sourcing and criteria searching.
Neal Jannels, managing director of One Mortgage System (OMS), said: “Step One Finance has a strong reputation throughout the second charge and intermediary marketplace and this integration will offer OMS users access to an even wider range of specialist lending options.
“Options which are becoming increasingly prominent in meeting their clients ever-changing borrowing needs.
“As a lender who has embarked on a tech journey to incorporate systems designed from the ground up to streamline the customer journey and to reduce processing times there are many synergies with OMS.
“And, when combined with core principles of responsibility, transparency, fairness and simplicity, I’m sure this will prove to be a high successful partnership going forward.”
Martin Porter, head of lending at Step One, added: “We are excited to have the full range of our second charge mortgage products integrated and available via API on the OMS platform.
“Our goal of facilitating a faster and more efficient loan application process using technology is advanced with the announcement of this partnership.
“Neal and the team at One Mortgage System have built an impressive all encompassing tool and we look forward to continuing and expanding our relationship.”
