the mortgage mole

1 February 2010

SOURCING SPY Mole donned his trusty football boots last week and headed over to Wembley Stadium for the launch of Mortgage Brain’s new
sourcing system.

Being a sluggish type Mole missed morning registration and so was not equipped with a security pass. However, when he got in he couldn’t help but notice that of the 300 or so attendees, half were wearing red passes and half black.

Mole enquired as to the reason behind the colour segregation and was told that red badge holders were users of competitor system TrigoldCrystal and black badge bearers existing Mortgage Brain users.

And among the red badge holders Mole spotted a salesman from TrigoldCrystal who had presumably come along to check out the competition. So Mole asked Mark Lofthouse, chief executive of Mortgage Brain, what the spy might have written on the section of the feedback form that asked how users rated the new system compared with their current one.

“Well, we’ve had 100% positive feedback so far,” Lofthouse quipped.

MAY OR MAY NOT The big question on Mole’s lips last week was - who was the person mistakenly named as The Mortgage Times Group director Chris May in a picture caption on the front page of one of our rival publications? It certainly didn’t look like May. Is this a Spartacus-style situation, with everyone now claiming to be him? If anyone knows the identity of the person pictured, please get in touch.