News in brief – 26 March 2026

Asset Advantage has announced the introduction of electronic signatures for deals up to £100,000. The SME funding provider said the enhancement removes the need for brokers to provide a wet signature on finance agreements or across a wide range of supporting documents, and the shift to digital is designed to streamline the funding process and reduce friction for brokers and their SME clients.

MorganAsh has launched a new vulnerable customer calculator to enable financial services firms to better understand the likely scale of vulnerability across their customer base. The tool covers around 20 of the most common vulnerabilities and provides an indication of how customers would fit into each cohort. MorganAsh said the new tool is in response to a persistent challenge across the industry where firms are only identifying a fraction of their vulnerable customers.

Mortgage Brain has released a new update to CRM Brain and introduced a suite of new features and enhancements, alongside a wide range of over 50 updates to improve performance and user experience. The release has been shaped by feedback from existing users and will comes with an instructional video as well as new guides all available in the Mortgage Brain Hub help centre.



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