Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Non-QM lender Sprout Mortgage has brought on Infosys ‘s chief information officer and global director of real estate finance solutions, Henry Santos , as its own CIO and executive vice president, the company announced Tuesday. In her new role, LaRaia will oversee all legal and regulatory compliance functions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Three years into its controversial ultimatum , United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) continues to engage in legal battles with its broker partners selling loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. A spokesperson for District Lending did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal judge in Georgia has given the green light for an amended “predatory lending” lawsuit to proceed against Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has been under fire numerous times in the past over discriminatory lending allegations. The lawsuit was filed under the Fair Housing Act by three counties in Georgia.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Guild Mortgage has filed a petition in a district court in Washington to confirm a $10.7 million award resulted from an arbitration dispute against three former employees accused of poaching when they transitioned to rival CrossCountry Mortgage. A spokesperson for CCM wrote that the company “does not comment on legal matters.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas by a group of current and former staffers from the company’s bilingual mortgage sales team alleging race-based discrimination. Wells Fargo forces its employees on the Bilingual team to offer predatory lending options to Spanish-speaking customers,” the initial legal complaint reads.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has moved to dismiss an amended counterclaim filed by broker shop America’s MoneyLine (AML) that accuses the lender of antitrust practices regarding the “ultimatum” it imposed two years ago. A spokesperson for UWM said the company had no comment. Any broker who did so would face fines.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guaranteed Rate Affinity has initiated legal action against former loan originators, accusing them of breaching contracts by failing to pay back advanced signing bonuses and commissions after they left the company. The company originates and markets its mortgage lending services to Anywhere’s real estate brokerage and relocation subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports (JIM) last week for allegedly breaching a sponsorship contract. The Atlanta-based mortgage lender is accusing the stock car racing team of breaking the agreement by changing the driver of the car starting in May 2022.

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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. billion in 2021, up from $0.4 billion in 2021, up from $0.4 How mortgage lenders are qualifying the value of fintech solutions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs isn’t changing its strategy to survive a shrinking mortgage market, even though a drop in originations is sapping its revenue stream and forcing it to trim its workforce. Cooper Group for $422 million in March 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

A Department of Veterans Affairs lending program for Native American veterans has been severely underutilized, a government watchdog found. from 2012 to 2021. The GAO said that the VA lacked the staff to run the lending program and failed to inform communities that it exists. Presented by: Salesforce.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cooper was completed in August, Home Point Capital agreed to settle for $5 million a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 by investors claiming the company made false and misleading statements related to its initial public offering (IPO). and its top executives, including former CEO Willian Newman and former CFO Mark Elbaum.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A lawsuit against the “ All-In” initiative at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) should be dismissed, a federal judge said, citing inadequate evidence to prove accusations against the lender. UWM terminated its contract with the broker and no longer accepts mortgage applications from Okavage customers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last month, PrimeLending sued competitor First Community Mortgage, Inc. Dybvad’s professional career began in 1988 with her role as a mortgage originator at Savings of America. “She brings her high energy and optimism to work every day, inspiring all around her to achieve their very best.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The requirement also applies to mortgage lenders, legal experts say. According to Kris Kully, an attorney at Mayer Brown , the notice will affect mortgage lenders because many of the underwriting systems lenders use to measure default risk contain proprietary algorithms, or “black-box models.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

We are adding resources to engineering, security and trust, product, industry relations, legal, compliance and more. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies. The company was recognized as one of the 2021 HW Tech100 winners for its native eSign and hybrid transaction tools.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021 subject to shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Strategies lenders should adopt from direct to consumer lending. Sign up here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

eNotes contain the same information as a traditional mortgage note – on paper – but they are created, signed and stored digitally. ” Navigating Closing Struggles in 2021’s Purchase Market. Full e-Closings reduce the use of paper, legal fees, mailing and courier costs. Presented by: First American Docutech.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Nominations for HousingWire’s Tech100 award are now open through next Friday, December 17, 2021. A 2021 Tech100 Mortgage honoree, Stavvy is helping organizations navigate complex financial and legal transactions easily and safely, allowing servicers to put customer experience at the forefront during tough times like a global pandemic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The recent string of executive-level hires is part of a company focus to prepare for growth through the end of this year and into 2021. Private equity-backed mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Company hired Bryan Filkey as its new chief strategy officer. Have a hiring announcement you want to share?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the deadline for public commentary on Tuesday, housing industry trade groups, companies and organizations responded to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed rulemaking for the general qualified mortgage definition and the expiration of the QM patch in January 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Cuts also hit operations, risk and compliance, legal, finance, business operations and marketing teams, according to a presentation held on Wednesday afternoon. . Kiavi, which rebranded from Lending Home in November, ranked as the top short-term lender in the fix-and-flip space in 2021, with $2.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

California-headquartered LoanSnap was hit with a temporary order to cease and desist from Connecticut’s Department of Banking for “systemic” unlicensed mortgage loan origination activity. Connecticut Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez alleged that LoanSnap violated the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

loanDepot is accusing its competitor Movement Mortgage of damaging its business by hiring over 25 employees in three months and “effectively crippling” “now-depleted” branches. That’s not the Orange County, California-based lender’s only poaching legal battle. In early June, a judge in the N.Y.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Numerous organizations criticized the agencies for not proposing to grade banks based on data about their minority lending. Above all, we are extremely disappointed to see the lack of the explicit consideration of lending by race in a lender’s CRA rating,” wrote the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Top originator United Wholesale Mortgage settled a lawsuit with broker shop Mid Valley Funding , in which the broker shop was accused of violating UWM’s controversial ultimatum by sending loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage. According to the lender, AML owes it $2.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Racial Equity Accelerator for Homeownership, a collaboration between Urban Institute and Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of San Francisco , on Monday released a report that examines how the adoption of alternative data can benefit Black households within the mortgage lending landscape. FICO’s failures. ” On-time payments.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Mortgage lenders generated more defective loans in the second quarter, reflecting the transition from a refinance to a purchase market, according to ACES Quality Management ’s latest critical defect report. The critical defect rate climbed to 2.27% in the second quarter of 2021, ending the trend of improvement in the previous two quarters.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank , which has warehouse lending operations located in Hamilton, New Jersey, is listed as the largest unsecured creditor in the FGMC Chapter 11 case — with a claim of $25 million, court pleadings show. The lender then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday, June 30.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is making good on its threat to take legal action against partnering broker shops that also send business to Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage , a violation of the wholesaler’s controversial broker agreement. million for repeatedly violating the terms of the agreement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) just sued two more broker shops that allegedly violated its controversial “ultimatum” by sending loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage. However, the lender said it was necessary to protect the long-term viability of the wholesale mortgage channel.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Veteran mortgage executive James Seely has sued Guild Mortgage for allegedly failing to pay $750,000 in compensation after terminating his employment for cause by “manufacturing out of whole cloth spurious claims of Mr. Seely not working full time,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. billion in mortgage loans. 2 in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Both plans rely heavily on special purpose credit programs , which allow lenders to target lending to protected classes without violating the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. . “A A September 2021 request for input ahead of the equitable housing finance plans indicated the FHFA would implement the plans by January 1, 2022.

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The Robert Weiler Company

JANUARY 2, 2021

The contract is essentially a seller-financed lending agreement for the purchase of a property, which requires the buyer to pay monthly installments until a balloon payment is due. Otherwise, you risk defaulting on your loan and losing your car to the bank or lending institution that financed the vehicle. Deed remains with the seller.

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