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Banks and Clients Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing lawyers. It is supported by professional indemnity insurers. It is a unique risk management tool.

This software optimises the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on Banks and Clients’s changes. While using COMPLETIONmonitor is not a prerequisite for Banks and Clients , demonstrating you can stay up to date with Banks and Clients’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, safeguard your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor creates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. In addition it is simply to use, cost-effective and, for some firms, results in a PII saving.

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Lenders often change their requirements. The BSA instructions from Banks and Clients are not guidelines, they are instructions from a client. As with many clients, instructions can change - and they do change, frequently:

A Timeline of Policy Changes


Since 2010, Banks and Clients has made 1 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the BSA Requirements.
That equates to a section change every 2730.0 days. In total, 0% of the sections of the BSA Requirements for Banks and Clients have been changed since 26/1/2010.

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Banks and Clients Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers from members of the public

The lawyer my fiance and I had intended to instruct on a remortgage said he would charge more if my lender is because of their unusual legal requirements. Am I likely to be frustrated using Banks and Clients? Any comments will be appreciated
Banks and Clients conveyancing requirements for their panel are no better or no more complicated than most lenders. It is the case now the CML Handbook, the "bible" used by solicitors to establish lender requirements, is different for each lender. It is not clear if your lawyer is on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel. If they are not, this does add further risk of delay as Banks and Clients will appoint their own solicitors to look after their interest.
We are approaching an exchange and my parents having sent the 10% deposit to my lawyer. I am now advised that as the deposit has not come from me my lawyer needs to make a notification to my lender Banks and Clients. Apparently, being on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel and acting on their behalf he must inform Banks and Clients if the balance of the mortgage advance is coming from anyone other than me. I advised the bank about my parent’s contribution when I applied for the home loan so is it really necessary for him to raise this?
Your lawyer is obliged to check with Banks and Clients to make sure that they are aware that the balance of the purchase price is not from your own funds. Your solicitor can only report this to Banks and Clients if you agree, failing which, your lawyer must cease to continue acting.
Your search tool is useful but there are many lawyers listed near London on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel. It would be a lot more helpful if you could recommend a specific firm on the conveyancing panel for Banks and Clients ?
We do not recommend specific firms as the right firm for you depends on where your priorities lie. For example you may require a local firm with local knowledge or you might be looking for the low cost conveyancing. We recommend that you speak to 3 or 4 lawyers listed before you make your choice..
My conveyancers in Liverpool have advised me that no longer have my conveyancing file. At the time of my purchase I took out a mortgage with Banks and Clients. Is it case that being on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a prescribed period?
Different lenders have different requirements but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the Banks and Clients Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Banks and Clients directly.
When it comes to lenders such as Banks and Clients do lawyers have to be pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
Do the majority of lenders operate their own panel of solicitors?
Many lenders do operate a restricted conveyancing panel but a lot of lenders allow any solicitors to join their panel so long as they meet their criteria. Each lender sets their own criteria. For example the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel requirements are different to Banks and Clients’s conveyancing panel criteria.
We are are acquiring a 1st floor apartment in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon are about to begiven the go-ahead. My agentsuggested that we make sure that the property lawyer in Hendon is on the Banks and Clients list of approved conveyancing firms. Is this really necessary?
It is not that case that all Hendon conveyancing solicitors are on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel. 8 people a month use our search tool to search for a Hendon conveyancing lawyer on the on the Banks and Clients approved list of lawyers.

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