Connect Mortgage Group takes up digital pen technology

The main one of these is the combined sixteen page fact-find and mortgage application form. Other digitised documents include the DIP form, a mortgage transfer form and branded notebooks for general notes.

Brokers can also use a digital pen to complete the fact-find mortgage application form with the client, and dock the pen to a port on their laptop. An automatic router creates an Internet connection and transmits the form as a graphical image to the Connect system.

George Playle, a mortgage broker with Fordyce and Playle in East Grinstead, said: “It’s saving us lots of time, and cutting out all the unnecessary re-keying and copying we had to do before. As well as being much faster it’s more secure too, because there’s no risk of confidential documents getting lost in the post.”