First Direct Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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How can my firm apply to be on the First Direct Conveyancing Panel?
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Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is an online pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. It is supported by professional indemnity insurers. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This software is the only way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on First Direct’s changes. Even though utilising COMPLETIONmonitor is not a condition for being on the First Direct panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with First Direct’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your panel application and, just as importantly, safeguard your panel standing.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces SRA and CQS reports, and will increase 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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Banks and building societies often vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from First Direct are not guidelines, they are instructions from a client. As with many clients, instructions can change - and they do change, over time:

A Timeline of Policy Changes


Since 2008, First Direct has made 240 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 11.4 days. In total, 12% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for First Direct have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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