Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach announced an API integration between Mortgage Coach and SaaS technology provider Polly on Thursday. Together, they formed the Borrower Intelligence Platform (BIP) by combining borrower intelligence with interactive TCA presentations, which allowed mortgage advisors to contact borrowers at strategic times. .

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage Coach, founded in 2009 and based in California, offers an interactive borrower education platform that lets loan officers guide borrowers through a visual presentation 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 28, 2022

HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Presented by: Heather Siegel, Lender Account Director, Qualia. Presented by: Leah Sommerville, Senior Account Executive, DocMagic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Effective natural language processing technologies extract deeper meaning from unstructured data to make a difference in the lives of countless would-be homebuyers who are credit invisible or have not had the ability to obtain access to affordable housing finance. Presented by: FormFree.

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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. Presented by: ServiceLink. MassiveCert will be rebranded as Xactus Flood Solutions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s a look at a lending technology that can help forge a pathway for underserved populations to build generational wealth through homeownership. Presented by: Equifax. For those in marginalized communities, it can be much more challenging to achieve the American dream of homeownership.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

banks, lenders, credit unions, insurers and securities firms. What are the building blocks of digital lending? Presented by: Wolters Kluwer. In late 2020, Wolters Kluwer GRC acquired cloud-based digital lending software firm eOriginal for about $280 million. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges that from at least 2015 to 2021, Lakeland failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Newark. Presented by: FormFree. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Perhaps not coincidentally, Lakeland this week agreed to a $1.3

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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. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Hogle has more than 20 years of experience, including about 15 years with Supreme Lending. The shift to a purchase market makes effective digital marketing even more important, and collaborative marketing technology can generate more demand while reducing time spent on marketing. Presented by: Evocalize.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

The capital, capability and content are present to make all real estate markets smarter, faster, safer and connected. Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Consumers, communities and taxpayers are major beneficiaries.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Tack on the challenges presented by not being able to connect in person, and it’s clear that servicers are navigating a unique set of obstacles. Our solution prioritizes the borrower experience and promotes a “self-cure” to insurance resolution with a multi-channel campaign that includes both digital and print touchpoints with consumers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

Candor, a mortgage artificial intelligence firm that has pioneered automated underwriter technology, announced a $12.5 The firm promised to automate much of the underwriting process by making income, asset and lending decisions. How technology can help underwriters work more productively. Presented by: CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

Technology for navigating secondary market challenges. Presented by: MCT. AmeriHome purchased approximately $65 billion in conventional conforming and government-insured originations in 2020. Texas Capital’s correspondent lending business originated approximately $2.4

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

trillion in origination volume and a continuation of tight lending spreads. Then, by late Q1/early Q2 2021, pricing wars were erupting in various channels, margins were falling (rapidly), and the industry was getting ready for a decrease in lending activity in the back half of the year. Entering 2020 the market was expecting <$2.0

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. Presented by: Altisource. And the issue is only compounded by the fact that every state (and seemingly, every city) has its own rules and requirements to issue title insurance and hold a closing. It’s also a selling point to your potential lending clients.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

For originators, servicers, title and settlement firms, the cost and volume of mortgage-related fraud has been high, costing depository originators, or mortgage lending companies, the most. Presented by: FundingShield. The firm hasn’t had any insurance claims so far, according to CerifID. Every $1 of fraud costs them $5.34

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A spokesperson for HUD said the agency could not discuss investigations or strategy of fair lending enforcement, but said that fair lending is a priority of the Biden-Harris Administration and HUD. In August, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge signed an agreement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency to strengthen fair lending enforcement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

WFG Title Insurance will now offer forbearance, loan modification, and foreclosure information reports as part of its general title and closing services. Presented by: Auction.com. “Offering customizable solutions for all our clients is key to this effort, regardless of their size.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The CFPB issued a statement to warn creditors that technology being “too complicated” is not an excuse for noncompliance. Presented by: Mortgage Coach. In his own statement Thursday, Chopra said companies have “legal responsibilities when they let a black-box model make lending decisions.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

That question would be answered succinctly when the Dodd Frank Act retooled the entire consumer regulatory structure, redrafting lending and closing documents, stiffening enforcement of laws long on the books and creating new ones, and sending participants in the real estate process into a panic trying to figure out to make it all work.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

The FHFA this week launched a new Office of Financial Technology, which it said will be the main point of contact for fintech matters. At the same time, the agency is seeking feedback on how to incorporate technological advancements into the mortgage lifecycle. Presented by: Total Expert. billion in 2021, up from $0.4

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2021

Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Presented by: FADT. CEO Nima Ghamsari, a former employee of analytics giant Palantir Technologies , and Blend President Timothy Mayopoulos, a former chief executive officer at Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Judd Hoffman has been hired as chief executive officer for Proper Title LLC , an Illinois-based title insurance agency that’s backed by top independent real estate brokerage @properties. There, he oversaw States Title use of predictive analytics and technology on its title and escrow platform. “The Presented by: Altisource.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Those loans, originated between 2007 and 2011, defaulted and led to claims to the FHA for mortgage insurance. Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability. Presented by: Total Expert. LOs are only human — Tech is necessary to keep up with max loan volumes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

The solution lies in embracing technology to address this growing gap in title and escrow hires. If you look around the title insurance industry, there’s a decade gap in the ages of the industry’s talent pool. The challenge of relying on an older workforce is that it presents the unpredictability of retirement within this age group.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

Whether you’re on the brokerage or lending side, offering clients something that aligns with today’s narrative is key. mortgage, title, insurance, warranty) they are typically siloed and rely heavily on agents to promote them. Evolve the technology stack.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This technology became essential amid social distancing guidelines.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Residential lending professionals today are being tasked to weather one storm after another. Without the opportunity to meet with a consumer face to face ­– in a branch, for example – lenders lack the ability to compare information in their portfolios with information presented in person. Leveraging technology can help.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Like every industry, the real estate profession grappled with doing business during the pandemic – not just for the sake of doing business, but for the unnerved consumers trying to navigate the home-buying process during an alarming present and an uncertain future. The first title insurance policy was issued in 1876.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite 2020’s pause in originations and securitizations, the 2021 outlook for non-QM lending is promising. Investors are returning to the space with more confidence, and new investors like private equities and insurance companies are showing interest. billion in total securitizations – only a 33% decrease from its 2019 high.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Based on 2020, many mortgage lenders are now exploring technology. More specifically, how technology could leave them less exposed to excessive underwriting costs and make them “market ready” for any volume. Only an Expert System can handle layered, complex and unpredictable problems like those presented in underwriting.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Lending Heights ( 592% growth) President Jason Cecco said his focus was on “empowering our team members to thrive, which leads to the best customer experience.”. This year housing sector companies appeared in the following categories as presented by Inc.: 5000 map.”. To qualify for Inc.’s

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

While these metrics are an advantage to existing homeowners who can capitalize on home appreciation, it presents a challenge for new homebuyers trying to enter the market. RT: Mortgage Insurance (MI) offers a pathway to affordable, responsible, sustainable homeownership by addressing the greatest barrier of entry: the required downpayment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). Leveraging technology can help. Presented by: DataVerify.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

“Something buyers aren’t aware of is that the appraisal process can take a while, depending on location, geography and the number of appraisers available at a company,” said Anthony Masseria, Vice President and Area Lending Manager at Citi. Sponsored content presented by Citibank, N.A. NMLS #412915.

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