Acord Mortgages will be rolling out API technology throughout this year.

The lender says that it plans to use the technology to allow brokers to pre-populate data from their CRM system to the MSO platform via the Iress Lender Connect system as an initial step.

The technology will then be brought to Iress Trigold, Xplan Mortgage, Mortgage Brain and Twenty7Tec during H1 2021.

The lender estimates that its API plans will cut “around 20 minutes” from each case.

Accord Mortgages managing director Jeremy Duncombe says: “Broker and lender integration has been topical for some time, but the last 12 months have brought this into even more focus.

“We’re always looking for ways to improve our systems and processes to make things easier for brokers and are confident investing in this new technology will help them connect with us more effectively than ever before.

“Our MSO platform, together with API connectivity means placing cases with us will be much more efficient, and speeding up the time taken to apply for a decision in principle means brokers will have more time to spend with their clients.

“This is the next step on our digital journey and we’re looking forward to widening the roll-out of API integration to create a more joined up mortgage application journey for the intermediary market.”