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The Tipton Deploys Mast Origin to Elevate Broker Experience
7 May 2026 , 3 min read

The Tipton Deploys Mast Origin to Elevate Broker Experience

The Tipton & Coseley Building Society has unveiled a new online application portal to support its mortgage operations and improve the user experience for brokers.

Mast Launches Lending Policy Assistant to Transform Broker and Lender Communication
13 November 2025 , 1 min read

Mast Launches Lending Policy Assistant to Transform Broker and Lender Communication

13th November, London, UK: Mast, the technology company modernising mortgage infrastructure, announced the launch of its ‘Assist’ product which is a Lending Policy Assistant that gives brokers instant, accurate answers t...

Mast Joins the Equity Release Council
9 July 2025 , 4 min read

Mast Joins the Equity Release Council

09 July 2025, LONDON, UK: The Equity Release Council (the Council) is delighted to welcome loan origination platform, Mast, as its newest member.

Smarter Lending: Melton's Transformation Story with Mast
3 June 2025 , 3 min read

Smarter Lending: Melton's Transformation Story with Mast

Melton Building Society (MBS), a regional lender offering specialist products, partnered with Mast to overhaul their outdated mortgage origination system. Mast’s cloud-native platform provided the flexibility, control, a...

From Zero to Enterprise: Building a Highly Performant Culture at Mast
22 May 2025 , 2 min read

From Zero to Enterprise: Building a Highly Performant Culture at Mast

Building enterprise software from scratch is tough, but at Mast, we’ve cracked the code. Our high-performance culture thrives despite being lean, and having complex customers and long sales cycles. We’ve shown that with ...

Mast and Sikoia Partner: Bringing AI-Powered Document Processing to Mortgage Lenders
7 May 2025 , 2 min read

Mast and Sikoia Partner: Bringing AI-Powered Document Processing to Mortgage Lenders

Sikoia has joined forces with Mast, a mortgage origination platform, to reduce administrative workloads and enhance the experience for both lenders and brokers.

Transforming The Cumberland's Intermediary Residential Mortgage Journey
31 March 2025 , 2 min read

Transforming The Cumberland's Intermediary Residential Mortgage Journey

Cumberland Building Society (CBS) partnered with Mast to transform their intermediary residential mortgage journey, aiming for faster, smoother, and more efficient lending. By implementing our off-the-shelf, yet customis...

The Power of Customisable Workflows: Unlocking Agility in Mortgage Lending
3 February 2025 , 4 min read

The Power of Customisable Workflows: Unlocking Agility in Mortgage Lending

In today’s fast-paced environment, agility and flexibility are critical for staying competitive across all industries. One of the biggest challenges enterprise software startups face is balancing the need to onboard new ...

Engineering Viewpoint: Seamlessly Redesigning Sites
13 January 2025 , 4 min read

Engineering Viewpoint: Seamlessly Redesigning Sites

At Mast, we've come a long way in terms of our site's design, while ensuring seamless transitions for our clients. A full site redesign was one of our biggest challenges as we launched the Mast Platform, and we handled i...

The Tipton & Coseley Building Society partners with Mast
18 December 2024 , 3 min read

The Tipton & Coseley Building Society partners with Mast

London, UK - December 18th 2024 - After a rigorous selection process, the Tipton & Coseley Building Society has selected the Mast Origination Platform to power its mortgage operations. Mast was chosen for their proven im...

Tuum and Mast Create Strategic Partnership to Transform Banking Software
9 December 2024 , 2 min read

Tuum and Mast Create Strategic Partnership to Transform Banking Software

London, UK - December 9th, 2024- Tuum, a leading provider of modular core banking solutions, has partnered with Mast, an innovative mortgage origination platform, to redefine the future of banking software. This collabor...

Enterprise Software: Why User Experience Matters
2 December 2024 , 5 min read

Enterprise Software: Why User Experience Matters

In the world of enterprise software, user experience often takes a back seat to an exhaustive list of features. Yet, it’s the UX that determines whether software becomes an invaluable tool or just another workplace hurdl...

Cumberland Building Society launches new broker portal in partnership with Mast
29 October 2024 , 3 min read

Cumberland Building Society launches new broker portal in partnership with Mast

London, UK - October 29th, 2024 - Cumberland Building Society launches new broker portal in partnership with Mast

Mast Launches Comprehensive Cloud-Native Loan Origination Software, Transforming Mortgage Experiences for Lenders
7 May 2024 , 3 min read

Mast Launches Comprehensive Cloud-Native Loan Origination Software, Transforming Mortgage Experiences for Lenders

London, UK- May 7th, 2024 -Mast, the challenger fintech offering cloud-native mortgage origination software, is proud to announce the successful launch of its comprehensive loan origination software. After ten months of ...

Vilja and Mast enter partnership to transform the mortgage market for Building Societies in the UK
27 March 2024 , 2 min read

Vilja and Mast enter partnership to transform the mortgage market for Building Societies in the UK

London, UK - March 27th, 2024 - The Swedish-based cloud core banking platform provider Vilja is accelerating its expansion into the UK market and announcing a partnership with mortgage origination partner Mast .

Cumberland Building Society partners with Mast
11 March 2024 , 2 min read

Cumberland Building Society partners with Mast

London, UK - March 11th, 2023 - The Cumberland Building Society is thrilled to announce the adoption of the Mast Origination Platform for their intermediary lending channel. This partnership with Mast marks a milestone i...

10x Banking and Mast partner to enable real-time connectivity for UK mortgage market
9 January 2024 , 2 min read

10x Banking and Mast partner to enable real-time connectivity for UK mortgage market

London, UK - January 9th, 2024 - 10x Banking, the transformational cloud-native SaaS core banking platform, and Mast, the cloud-native mortgage origination platform specialising in the UK market, are thrilled to announce...

Mast announces strategic partnership with Finastra
23 November 2023 , 2 min read

Mast announces strategic partnership with Finastra

London, UK - November 23rd, 2023- Mast, the leading fintech in cloud-native mortgage origination software for the UK market, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Finastra, a global provider of financial ...

Melton Building Society upgrades its partnership with Mast
10 July 2023 , 2 min read

Melton Building Society upgrades its partnership with Mast

London, UK - July 10th, 2023 - Melton Building Society has partnered with Mast to power the Society’s loan origination infrastructure, as it continues on its digitisation journey. Mast’s software-as-a-service origination...

Mast achieves ISO 27001 certification
27 February 2023 , 1 min read

Mast achieves ISO 27001 certification

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve become ISO 27001 certified. This demonstrates our ongoing commitment to information security, for our customer, employee and governance data, and gives certainty of our data security ...

Phoebus adds Mast to its strategic partner programme
1 February 2023 , 2 min read

Phoebus adds Mast to its strategic partner programme

London, UK - February 1st,, 2023- Phoebus has partnered with mortgage origination software provider Mast, giving its lender clients the option of using the Phoebus servicing solution to create an end-to-end journey.

Mast becomes latest IMLA Associate Member
27 September 2022 , 2 min read

Mast becomes latest IMLA Associate Member

September, 27th, 2022 - LONDON - Mast has today become the latest associate member to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). IMLA now sports a combined total of 68 members, comprised of 52 full member...

Fintech Mast Raises £1.2M to Accelerate Buildout of its Cloud-Native Mortgage Origination Infrastructure
15 June 2022 , 3 min read

Fintech Mast Raises £1.2M to Accelerate Buildout of its Cloud-Native Mortgage Origination Infrastructure

London, UK - June 15th, 2020, Following a successful product launch in November 2021, Mast Technologies ("Mast") has raised £1.2M to accelerate the development of its cloud-native mortgage origination platform and to sup...

The future of software is Usage-Based Pricing
1 June 2022 , 2 min read

The future of software is Usage-Based Pricing

We have passed the time where software is just bought off the shop floor and you simply install it on your local machine or servers to get access to a fixed amount of functionalities and features. Software has evolved fr...

Building two-way messaging in two weeks
25 April 2022 , 7 min read

Building two-way messaging in two weeks

At Mast, we want to make mortgage origination faster and simpler than ever. That means having a single source of truth for mortgage applications. Brokers and underwriters both can check Mast to get the latest updates on ...

MBS Lending Launches Online Application Portal with New Fintech, Mast
17 November 2021 , 2 min read

MBS Lending Launches Online Application Portal with New Fintech, Mast

London, UK - November 17th, 2021 - MBS Lending, a subsidiary of the Melton Building Society has partnered with new fintech Mast to revamp its technology infrastructure by introducing an online application portal for mort...

Using APIs to make the mortgage application process faster
21 March 2021 , 3 min read

Using APIs to make the mortgage application process faster

Applying for a mortgage is complicated. Customers have brokers to help them when they’re looking to buy a property or remortgage an existing one - they navigate the minefield for you.

Real Transformation is No Transformation
18 March 2021 , 3 min read

Real Transformation is No Transformation

2020 and 2021 have been very challenging for everyone. Plenty of people lost their jobs, some industries have been decimated, lots of businesses had to shut down and everyone has had to adapt to survive. We had to fundam...

Using OCR in Mortgage Applications
16 February 2021 , 2 min read

Using OCR in Mortgage Applications

First, what is OCR? Optical Character Recognition is the conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. In a nutshell, this means taking an image of text, and turning it into text o...

Antler Venture Partner joins Mast's advisory board
8 January 2021 , 2 min read

Antler Venture Partner joins Mast's advisory board

We are delighted to announce that Jed Rose will be supporting Mast. as the first member of our advisory board. As a Venture Partner with Antler, he has worked with Mast. since its inception and he will continue to bring ...

Mast raises pre-seed funding from Antler
1 June 2020 , 1 min read

Mast raises pre-seed funding from Antler

London, UK -June, 1st, 2020 - Mast has raised £120,000 in pre-seed funding from Antler.