X-Press joins UK Finance Association

Julie Edge | 11-Sep-2020

X-Press Legal Services is pleased to announce our membership of UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance industry, as we continue to extend our suite of digital innovation.

UK Finance is the trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector representing around 300 firms in the UK providing credit, banking, markets and payment-related services.

X-Press joins more than 180 associate firms across the industry, working towards promoting a safe, transparent and innovative banking and finance industry. X-Press provides regulated property searches and reports to solicitors and conveyancing professionals. Trusted by more than 500 legal practices in England and Wales, our 27 independently run local businesses deliver over 400,000 regulated searches and reports every year.

The UK Finance industry body promotes digital innovation across the banking and finance industry in a responsible, inclusive and ethical way that protects customer data. This year X-Press has enhanced its range of digital data services for conveyancing clients and offers new secure and easy to use online services such as an app for remote client onboarding.

Christian Lister, X-Press Operations Director comments: “We have invested heavily in our Intelligent Conveyancing Online System (ICOS) to digitise the property search transaction process online in order to increase resilience against fraud and improve the ease of buying and selling. Our membership of UK Finance will help guide our network of offices in developing and enhancing payment systems for the benefit of our conveyancing clients.”

UK Finance has welcomed X-Press Legal Services as a new associate member and very much looks forward to working and discussing insights with X-Press including recent technology trends and responsible adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the conveyancing sector.