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2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Samir Agarwal

Housing Wire

At Wolters Kluwer, Agarwal has tapped his extensive banking product development experience to create a group of offerings that assist local and regional banks to more effectively scale their operations and processes in support of their consumer-facing offerings.

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Robert Howerton joins Dovenmuehle as chief information officer

Housing Wire

His responsibilities will include maintaining and expanding Dovenmuehle’s current information technology (IT) infrastructure. There, he modernized the company’s technology infrastructure and optimized business processes, resulting in a 30% increase in operational efficiency.

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HUD to double servicer fee on assumable mortgages

Housing Wire

“As the housing finance industry continues to evolve, we remain committed to using technology to support Issuers, borrowers, and the taxpayer.” ” In July 2020, Ginnie Mae first implemented its digital collateral program amid an industry request for optimization and alignment with policies and practices.

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ConsumerDirect Mortgage rebrands as Real Genius, introduces new tech platform

Housing Wire

ConsumerDirect Mortgage rebranded itself to Real Genius and announced the launch of a modern mortgage application platform to simplify a borrower’s experience. Real Genius, a division of FirstBank , one of Tennessee’s largest community banks , said that its application platform will provide borrowers with rate and cost transparency.

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Stavvy lands $40 million Series A for aggressive growth

Housing Wire

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. COVID19 certainly accelerated development and focus on servicing, coming out of 2019 with record low default and foreclosure.”. How modernized servicing creates customers for life.

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A View on Risk: Desktop Appraisals

Appraisal Buzz

Prior to 2020, the most common appraisal label in the mortgage origination ecosystem was the Full Appraisal. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 introduced two new appraisal labels – the Exterior-only Appraisal and the Desktop Appraisal. There is a long history of technology advances adopted into the appraisal processes.

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3 mortgage industry trends that will define the rest of 2021

Housing Wire

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Eric Levin is EVP of Client Development at Model Match.

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