Mortgage CRM for Dominion Lending Centres agents: Velocity submits the deal. Your CRM keeps the client.
Dominion Lending Centres is the flagship brand of DLC Group, which also owns Newton, the company behind Velocity, and since August 2026 owns Filogix as well. Both of the big Canadian submission platforms now sit under your network's parent. Mortgage360 handles the work that happens before and after submission: follow-up, renewals, referrals, and a client record you can export.
Independent software. Mortgage360 is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Dominion Lending Centres.
- MBM. BouchardSubmitted in Velocity · awaiting commitmentLender
- ASA. SinghPre-approval expires in 9 daysCall
- TLThe LiusFive-year term matures in 104 daysRenewal
- KMK. MensahReferred by past client J. OrtizNew
Can a Dominion Lending Centres agent use an independent CRM?
Usually, but your franchise agreement decides that, not us or DLC's marketing. The question has had a public airing: in 2023 the Competition Bureau opened an inquiry into DLC practices it said may limit brokers' ability to use the technology of their choice, and discontinued it in June 2024 without a finding either way. The common setup is to submit through Velocity or Filogix as your office requires, and keep the client relationship in a CRM you control.
- DLC Group's broker brands: Dominion Lending Centres, Mortgage Centre Canada and Mortgage Architects.
- In February 2022 DLC agreed to buy the 30% of Newton (Velocity) it did not already own.
- At that time DLC said more than half of its funded volume was submitted through Velocity.
- DLC announced on 4 August 2026 that it had bought Filogix from Finastra for $58.5 million.
- DLC says Filogix will run as a standalone subsidiary, separate from Newton.
- Mortgage360 has no Velocity connection today; it is on our integrations roadmap.
What changed when DLC bought Filogix
For most of the last decade a Canadian broker submitted through one of two rails: Filogix Expert, owned by Finastra, or Velocity, built by Newton, in which DLC held a controlling stake and then agreed in 2022 to buy the rest. In August 2026 DLC Group announced it had bought Filogix too. DLC says Filogix will stay operationally independent from Newton and keep serving brokers at other networks. For a DLC agent the practical point is simpler: whichever rail your office uses, your network's parent owns it. That is a reasonable argument for keeping who the client is, when they renew and who referred them in a system that belongs to you.
- Keep submitting through Velocity or Filogix, whichever your office requires.
- Mortgage360's Filogix connection is designed as a two-way sync and is in rollout; /product/filogix explains how it works.
- Velocity has no Mortgage360 connection yet. Deal data does not flow between them.
- Pipeline, notes and renewal dates live in Mortgage360 whichever rail you use.
- If your office switches rail, your client record stays where it is.
The Competition Bureau inquiry, in brief
In May 2023 the Competition Bureau obtained a court order to advance an inquiry into DLC, describing it as concerning practices that limit mortgage brokers' ability to use the technology solutions of their choice. DLC disputed the allegations. In June 2024 the Commissioner discontinued the inquiry into Dominion Lending Centres, Mortgage Centre Canada, Mortgage Architects and Newton. A discontinued inquiry is not a ruling for or against anyone, and it says nothing about your own contract. What it does tell you is that which tools a DLC broker may use has been a live question, so it is worth reading the relevant clauses before you add anything.
- Read the submission, payroll and data clauses in your agreement first.
- Ask your franchise owner what is mandatory beyond where deals are submitted.
- Pick a CRM that does not depend on which submission rail you are on.
- Keep your compliance notes on the file, not scattered across an inbox.
What leaves with you, and what stays
Agents move between DLC franchises, and between DLC and other networks. The deal files your brokerage must retain stay with the brokerage; in Ontario, for example, the standards of practice put record retention on the brokerage, not the agent. What you can reasonably keep, subject to your agreement and privacy law, is your own working relationship record: who you have served, when their terms end and how you met them. That record is what Mortgage360 is built around, and it exports whenever you ask.
- Contacts, deals, renewal dates and referral sources export in a standard format.
- No export fee and no notice period on your own workspace.
- Brokerage compliance records stay where your regulator expects them.
- Start alone. Nobody else in your office has to adopt it.
If your office is a Mortgage Centre franchise
The Mortgage Centre has franchised since 1989 and calls itself the longest-serving mortgage network in Canada. It was CIBC's broker franchisor until CIBC sold it to Dominion Lending Centres, with the transition taking effect in June 2013, and it is now one of DLC Group's three broker brands alongside Dominion Lending Centres and Mortgage Architects. It was named with them when the Competition Bureau discontinued its inquiry in June 2024. Same parent, separate brand: franchise terms, tools and support can differ, so go by your own agreement. Everything else on this page applies to an MCC office the same way.
- MCC reports 1,800+ brokers, 127+ franchises and 259 office locations.
- Find out whether your office submits through Velocity or Filogix before you compare tools.
- Mortgage360 has no connection to MCC's intranet or any DLC Group system.
- A franchise gets its own isolated workspace, with renewals listed 120 days out per agent and for the office.
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Frequently asked
Is Mortgage360 affiliated with Dominion Lending Centres?
No. Mortgage360 is independent software with no affiliation, endorsement or partnership with Dominion Lending Centres, DLC Group or Newton. We use the name only to say who this page is for.
Is The Mortgage Centre the same company as Dominion Lending Centres?
Same parent, separate brand. Both belong to DLC Group, alongside Mortgage Architects. Mortgage360 is not affiliated with The Mortgage Centre or Mortgage Centre Canada either, and franchise terms can differ between the brands, so go by your own agreement.
Does DLC owning Filogix affect Mortgage360's Filogix connection?
Not so far. DLC has said Filogix will run as a standalone subsidiary and keep serving brokers across networks. Our connection depends on Filogix continuing to offer the access third-party software has today; if that changes, it changes for every vendor, and /product/filogix is where we would say so.
I submit through Velocity. Is Mortgage360 still worth it?
For relationship work, yes, with a clear gap: there is no Velocity connection, so application data does not move between the two. You would run pipeline, follow-up and renewals in Mortgage360 and submit in Velocity. If that double entry is a deal-breaker, wait. The connector is on our roadmap without a date.
Can a DLC franchise owner run the whole office on it?
Yes. From our side a franchise is a brokerage: its own isolated workspace, file-level compliance review, commission calculation and agent oversight. Anything your agreement routes through DLC systems, such as submission, stays there.
Sources
Dominion Lending Centres’s official site: dlcg.ca (DLC Group). Figures are as each company reports them. Sources checked September 2026; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- DLC Group: brands, headcount and 2025 origination
- DLC: agreement to acquire remaining 30% of Newton (Feb 2022)
- DLC acquires Filogix from Finastra (Aug 2026)
- Competition Bureau: court order in DLC inquiry (May 2023)
- DLC: notice of inquiry discontinuance (Jun 2024)
- Ontario O. Reg. 188/08, brokerage standards of practice
- Mortgage Centre Canada: founding and network size
- Canadian Mortgage Trends: CIBC's sale of Mortgage Centre (Jun 2013)
- Mortgage360 integrations (live and roadmap)
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