Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At each stage of the buying process, there are multiple siloed transactions, from appraisals, inspections and settlements to mortgage payments and homeowners’ insurance. Digitalization in the home lending industry does not always require companies to entirely invent new technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

It is crucial to focus on capturing the business that exists in this market in the near term while also planting seeds with clients that will yield long-term rewards. Whether you’re on the brokerage or lending side, offering clients something that aligns with today’s narrative is key. Evolve the technology stack.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron VanTrojen CEO Geneva Financial Home Loans Abbie Tidmore Senior Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer Pennymac Adam Kessler CEO Academy Mortgage Baron Silverstein President Newrez Ben Madick Co-Founder and CEO Matic Insurance Bernadette Kogler Co-Founder and CEO RiskSpan Bill Rogers Founder and CEO Homeowners (..)

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“As the mortgage industry has evolved to better leverage technology and remote service delivery, FHA believes that requiring a mortgagee or lender to register all branches is an unnecessary administrative and cost impediment to program participation,” the agency said in its notice.

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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. Business email compromise scams related to real estate were $446.1

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Head of Neighborhood and Community Lending. Matic Insurance. Built Technologies. Chief Technology Officer. Senior Executive Vice President, President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. SRE Technologies. Supreme Lending. Head of Home Lending. Planet Home Lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

Add to those challenges increased competition in a rising interest rate environment that is choking off refinance business, driving overall mortgage volume down significantly. Servicers, especially those who service government-insured loan products, are under statutory time constraints that give them very little wiggle room.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Axis 360 Lift strives to offer a comprehensive understanding of the mortgage business by addressing each step of the process. Axis has lending and title academies, with an origination academy set to launch in the spring of 2024. The initial 30 days establish a foundational understanding of mortgage lending concepts.

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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. All Things Housing. 02 Marketing Leaders Success Summit: How I Earned 100k Followers & Other Social Media Lessons.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The mortgage and real estate industries are quickly adapting to technological advances in order to keep up with consumer demands and the changing markets. It encompasses brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology companies like Real Results, Verus Title and Encompass Lending. Register here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

If you wanted to do business with millennials, the emerging core of the home buying customer base, at a bare minimum engaging the consumer in a mobile-friendly, online experience was required just to get a seat at the table. Digital lending is easier for companies that were born in the cloud. The digital point of sale (POS) was born.

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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

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The goal is to help drum up business for lenders during an extremely challenging time in the industry. . Polly, a San Francisco-based fintech, is a software-as-service mortgage technology firm that operates a product and pricing engine (PPE) and loan-trading exchange.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Blend’s investors are apparently convinced that the company can radically transform lending, simplifying and digitizing regimented-but-clumsy processes that are still rather paperwork-heavy. ” 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

AUGUST 31, 2022

Xactus, which says it has more than 6,500 clients including bank and nonbank mortgage originators, uses its proprietary technology platform to close loans quickly. Since then, the firm acquired MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate in July.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

eMerge, a company that offers alternative valuation solutions, including broker price opinions (BPOs), will allow Accurate Group to increase its broker network and leverage property inspection technology, the company said. This is the second acquisition for Accurate this year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better.com announced Wednesday the closing of its business combination with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Aurora Acquisition Corp , , ending a two-year journey to make the business public. Better plans to be a mortgage marketplace that sells its technology platform to other companies. “Our

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

Volatility and dramatic shifts in market activity have forced participants across the mortgage lifecycle to embrace more agile business practices. trillion in origination volume and a continuation of tight lending spreads. MF: Driving efficiency in your business model is more important than ever. We got the exact opposite.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

For instance, with higher-priced mortgages, lenders need to verify the consumer’s ability to repay, ensure there is no prepayment penalty and make sure escrow taxes and insurance payments are paid each month along with the loan’s principal and interest. Both are highly regulated at both the state and federal level.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

SoftPro has named title and escrow veteran Gorkem Kuterdem its new chief technology officer, the company announced Thursday. Kuterdem has more than 15 years of experience specific to the title industry, previously serving as senior vice president for strategy at Adeptive Software and former CTO for WFG National Title Insurance Co.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As the mortgage industry faces the realities of rising interest rates, savvy lenders are shifting gears towards the potential profitability of home equity lending. HousingWire: In a rising rate environment where a large percentage of homeowners have record-low mortgage rates secured, the lending industry is turning an eye to home equity.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business. We aim for a similar mix.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With fluctuating volume, mortgage servicers are still struggling to effectively scale their business. Philip Reinking: Mortgage servicers are facing substantial growth but a lack of talent in scaling business growth. HW: How have you seen technology impacted by COVID-19? HW: How is Allied Solutions tackling these challenges?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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 holding company will invest in finance, insurance, and real estate businesses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

Technology for navigating secondary market challenges. AmeriHome purchased approximately $65 billion in conventional conforming and government-insured originations in 2020. As part of its purchase of Texas Capital Bank’s servicing book, Ocwen also acquired the lender’s correspondent business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Leveraging our proprietary data extraction technology, we are currently maintaining more than 1,600 title plants covering nearly 80% of the U.S. billion in revenue from its title insurance and services segments, a 13% year-over-year increase. population. During the fourth quarter, First American generated a total of $2.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

In his new role, Hogle will manage the firm’s retail operations, overseeing growth and development of retail sales and the production network, while supporting the firm’s business channels. Hogle has more than 20 years of experience, including about 15 years with Supreme Lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williston Financial Group and a national title insurance underwriter dedicated to taking time and cost out of real estate transactions. This ongoing engagement is an example of WFG’s foundational pledge to “Communicate, Collaborate, Coexist.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

That puts heavy pressure on its business. The deal with Aurora will unlock $565 million of fresh capital for an unprofitable business. In an interview with HousingWire , Garg said the company has shifted its strategy ahead of its IPO—Better plans to be a mortgage marketplace that sells its technology platform to other companies. “Our

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Technology and the trust model Real estate is too vital to our economy to be so financially concentrated and functionally outdated.

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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. Shortly thereafter, Candor emerged.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While the rise of digital technology has permanently shifted the world of lending, many borrowers still look for a human-touch experience to help create trust and transparency throughout the lending process. “A Bridge the divide of what can be done by technology and what should remain a human process.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Two House Appropriations bills recently advanced by House negotiators have included language surrounding Business Email Compromise (BEC) in an effort to promote collaboration between federal and law enforcement agencies and private sector partners in monitoring and reporting for cyber-based crime events. How FundingShield can help.

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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. 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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