Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better Home & Finance Holding Company has partnered with information technology consulting company Infosys on a mortgage-as-a-service platform. Better’s mortgage as a service currently consists roughly 20% of its revenue and the lender aims to grow this business line, Garg said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We In recent congressional testimony , Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) chief economist Mike Fratantoni pointed out that the housing market is now extremely supply challenged.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent cyberattacks at mortgage companies have put the industry in alert mode, executives at top lenders, servicers, tech vendors and investors told HousingWire. It’s scary out there,” a technology leader at a top lender said anonymously, adding that there were recent cyberattack attempts at his company.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Publicly traded real estate technology company Doma Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to sell to title insurance underwriter Title Resources Group (TRG) and become a private company. Its most recent endeavor is Upfront Title , launched during the third-quarter earnings call with investors and analysts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Third-quarter earnings season kicked off with a bang last week with three ( Stewart, First American and Old Republic ) out of the Big Four title insurers reporting their earnings on Thursday. “Our third quarter results reflect the headwinds experienced from increased mortgage interest rates that have significantly impacted the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

The title insurance and settlement services provider was originally bought b y Solutionstar Holdings , an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (Mr. But Mayopoulos stands by his statement that virtually “every aspect of mortgage lending can be improved through digitization.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Building the future of mortgage servicing technology is about granular, nuanced innovation — knowing what changes must happen and when, and executing with no mistakes across scale operations where every tiny detail is highly regulated. and see the same data their customer is seeing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(ICE) and investment research firm Delta Terra Capital announced a partnership to offer climate-adjusted credit risk analytics for residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBS). DeltaTerra Capital is an investment research and consulting firm focused on climate risk analysis for institutional investors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

But what does virtual real estate mean for real-world mortgage professionals? Is there demand for “mortgages” to buy virtual real estate in the Metaverse? To boot, one of the first financing transactions on record was made in January 2022 by technology firm TerraZero. TerraZero is not a licensed mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

Add Moon Mortgage to the list of fintechs offering crypto-backed mortgages. It has to be about how an investor can use it for real-world gains,” Tristan Marino, who co-founded the company with Aaron Nevin in 2022 after their frustration with the lack of digital asset applications, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation of their loan options. The new API integration will feed real-time data from Polly’s cloud-based PPE into Mortgage Coach’s total cost analysis (TCA) presentation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. Last year, Interfirst relaunched its services with a new proprietary loan origination technology platform. The originations went from $14.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Patricia Suazo has joined FundingShield as its vice president of technology operations and integrations. Suazo has over 15 years of leadership experience in the mortgage lending space with firms including Stearns Lending , Bank of America , Carrington Holding Company and CloudVirga.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

trillion mortgage servicing sector shouldn’t be “disrupted” by financial technology, it should be reimagined with fintech. Most new-to-mortgage fintech folks who overuse the word “disruptor” will start by asking, “What are your requirements?” America’s $13.3 but that’s the wrong question.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. Blend Labs CEO Nima Ghamsari is a betting man. He was right.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Analysts in the mortgage industry are projecting that 2024 will be a better year than 2023 across the board. In a HousingWire report , analyst firm Jeffries said that they believe the worst of the current mortgage cycle is behind us, and Moody’s forecasts that the Federal Reserve will decrease rates three or four times this year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs laid off 10% of its workforce amid major headwinds in the mortgage industry. The company, whose white-label technology powers mortgage applications on the websites of major lenders such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank , expects to incur about $6.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Fintechs involved in homeownership investments have been around for nearly two decades, but it wasn’t until recently that a handful of them have been backed by big investors seeking to take the HEI product mainstream. The market, however, is expected to grow as HEI companies seek to partner with mortgage lenders and real estate brokerages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Figure Technologies co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney. Mike Cagney didn’t expect to be releasing a cryptocurrency-backed 30-year fixed-rate mortgage product so soon. The plan was for Figure Technologies to launch such a product only after completing the merger with multichannel mortgage lender Homebridge Financial Services.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2021

In December, AmTrust Title Insurance Company announced the hiring of seasoned underwriter Mary Shelley as its midwest region agency underwriter. For mortgage underwriting, credit scores became more important than ever in 2020 when dealing with lenders. “Patience and perseverance were the challenges and the solutions.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

FundingShield , the fintech provider of plug-and-play solutions to manage risk, compliance and fraud prevention, has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a technology services and consulting company. increase in issues with proof of insurance in Q2. The partnership comes amid an increase in wire and title fraud risk.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

The independent public offering comes following a banner year for the mortgage industry , in which Blend still lost $75 million on revenue of $96 million. ” Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the website of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. .”

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ’s regulator imagines a future where, perhaps through artificial intelligence and machine learning, errors in mortgages are identified in real time before a loan is closed. Although investors have poured an increasing amount of money into fintechs — $1.7 But that scenario is a long way off.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile, homeowners insurance is increasingly becoming a bigger issue for consumers and servicers. A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that in Florida some homeowners have seen their homeowner premiums triple in the last five years and in some communities these premiums are now higher than their mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Philadelphia-based Incenter Lender Services has promoted Sara Parrish to chief operating officer amid a plan to attract independent mortgage banks (IMBs) with variable-cost services. ” Incenter has businesses focused on capital markets, loan diligence, student lending, insurance, property tax, accounting and marketing. .”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Housing Wire recently sat down with Newbold Advisors Partner Robert Simpson to learn more mortgage claims in today’s servicing climate. HousingWire: What are some key challenges servicers are currently facing regarding mortgage claims? Robert Simpson: This is a pivotal moment for mortgage servicers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

have taken advantage of its mortgage relief provisions. Many of these challenges persist today, while new ones – like post-forbearance credit reporting, investor and year-end reporting for deferred balances – continue to arise. How the National Flood Insurance Program’s recent extension provides stability for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Each year, the TECH100 awards recognize the 200 most influential tech companies in mortgage and real estate that are working to improve the housing industry through tech innovation. The promises of technology have largely been lost in the mortgage industry and little has been done to reduce costs for homebuyers.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

SitusAMC subsidiary Securent is expanding its reach into the private-label market with plans to soon introduce a loan-defect insurance product for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transactions, according to executives from both companies. Nobody else has done loan-defect insurance for securitizations yet.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. This setup lets a consumer compare quotes from several insurers, including Progressive, with only one click. market for homeowners’ insurance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Non-QM lender Acra Lending is projecting mortgage originations will increase in 2023 to about $2.6 Lind points to Finance of America Mortgage , First Guarantee Mortgage Corp. Athas Capital and Sprout Mortgage , among others, as examples of non-QM lenders who have exited the market. • billion, up from $2.1

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Authorization : A digital loan file of record accessed by a broad range of trusted identities from lenders to guarantors to investors requires a permission structure. Investors require assurance that a file, note or instrument reflects the verifiable intentions of the committed parties. What’s next?

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. MassiveCert will be rebranded as Xactus Flood Solutions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. Businesses and entire industries tanked during the pandemic, but it created an ideal environment for mortgage tech companies, some of which rode the wave to banner years and historic growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. As of Sept. Here is how Hurst, via email, responded to our questions.

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