CLS Money integrates Nivo app to speed up applications process

Mortgage broker CLS Money has partnered with FinTech specialist Nivo to provide its customers with a fully branded ‘white labelled’ app.

The move aligns with the broker’s aim to speed up mortgage applications and ‘digitise’ its end to end sales process.

CLS Money has become the first broker operating in the first charge space to adopt the white label service and has created a completely automated cloud-based solution through Nivo.

The new app, which was developed within three weeks and is free to download from App stores, enables customers to easily communicate with CLS Money and share documents such as bank statements, payslips and e-sign documents.

Information can also be securely shared by lenders, brokers, lawyers and other professionals signed up to the Nivo network.

The broker is set to remove emailing from its processing to improve speed of applications and processing, increase adviser efficiency and deliver high levels of security for customer data.

Clayton Shipton, founder and managing director of CLS Money, comments: “Companies like Amazon and Uber have changed everything, and customers now expect transactions in other areas of the lives to be just as quick and painless as ordering something on their phone in a few taps and receiving it the next day.”

“Being able to remove posted documents from the equation was an absolute no-brainer. With this new app we’ve reduced the time it takes for a customer to send us essential documents to just a few minutes and made communications feel instant.”

According to Shipton, mobile solutions and secure chat-style applications are the future. “Customers don’t feel they’re being bombarded with ‘spam’ during the application and although we’re not quite ready to call the death of email, it is already looking as antiquated as snail-mail.”

Zach Thomas, business development at Nivo, adds: “I’m delighted that Nivo has been able to help CLS Money deliver an ‘industry first’ in the first charge mortgage sector.”

“Clayton and his team understand the value of digitising processes which make things easier for customers and advisers and this new branded App provides the perfect way for users to access our network of FinTech features and enable a quick and efficient loan application experience.”