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Trade groups express concern to FHFA over historic credit data

Housing Wire

A coalition of trade organizations — including the American Bankers Association (ABA), the Housing Policy Council (HPC), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and U.S. historical dataset. “We FHFA was comfortable approving VantageScore 4.0 that use trended credit bureau data.

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Princeton CEO Rich Weidel on the promise vs reality of mortgage tech

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If you go and look at headlines from 2013-2014 — everything was revolution and transformation and technology was going to lower costs. Within mortgage companies, even those that have huge scale versus small scale, they’re offering really the same borrower experience and the same loan officer experience. SW: How do you fix that?

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Fairway Mortgage to partner with Milwaukee Brewers

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Wisconsin-based Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. One of Fairway’s electronic signs at the stadium reads “Home.com, by Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation.” Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Fairway is a full-service mortgage lender with more than 400 branches nationwide. The company funded $65.8

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Northpointe Bank to shutter its correspondent lending business

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Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Northpointe was the 24th largest correspondent lender , according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

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Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 By July 2013, things were going so well that Godin and his wife purchased a lakefront mansion in Winnetka, Illinois, for nearly $13 million , a record for the posh Chicago suburb. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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What happens when borrowers have more control of the lending process?

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Through every financial transaction in a person’s life — whether a mortgage, auto, student or personal loan — there is one constant: the borrower. When the pandemic forced a shutdown of the economy, Congress gave blanket permission for any affected consumer to place their mortgage in forbearance,” Schwartz said.

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Opinion: GSE policy changes are positive for small lenders

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Just a few years ago, we were talking about shrinking the GSEs’ footprint, giving GSE charters to vertically integrated Wall Street banks, and giving these same Wall Street banks access to the GSEs’ Common Securitization Platform, which would have enabled them to dominate mortgage markets. Broader market considerations also come into play.

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