Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 20% of Cliffco’s production comes from the wholesale channel and 80% of origination volume comes from its retail channel – through which it offers GSE, government loans and non-QM products. Capturing leads with tech Another priority for the lender is procuring leads through its proprietary technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

” The integration combines comprehensive eClosing technology with data-driven origination workflow automation. We’re thrilled to offer our clients the efficiencies and conveniences that this partnership brings,” MaryKay Theriault , director of product management at Finastra, said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. It just has not gone well.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Rick Arvielo: What’s interesting about our growth is that we are the 13 th largest retail IMB in the country, but we’re only in about a third of the United States. We grew with a call center model for the first 10 years and only got into outside distributed retail 11 years ago. What made Draper and Kramer a good fit for NAF to acquire?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite struggles in retail and wholesale, Pennymac has remained a standout in the correspondent channel, in which lenders aggregate loans from smaller originators. Meanwhile, the retail channel’s market share slipped to 56% of the overall originations pie in the third quarter of 2022. Bank Home Mortgage and Planet Home Lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The merger will result in an “increased lending footprint” to better serve clients, Paul Kessel, president of American Portfolio, said in a statement. Lisa Thomas, chief executive officer of Town Square, added that the deal also brings “a portfolio of expanded loan products backed by a lending platform with state-of-the-art technology.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. “I was told by the recruiter this division – Rocket retail started a year ago. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Chazz Huston Strategic Alliances Manager, Black Knight Secondary Marketing Technologies. Thanks to the fact that most auto retailers list their product and pricing online, this process was easy for me to complete on my own time. Lending institutions that fail to respond to changing consumer demands will, well, risk failure.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

Now, the focus is on the hot purchase market, and brokers are looking for solutions outside the conventional conforming product box to assist their client base. From loan submission to servicing loans, its end-to-end, customer-first lending process is all about ease, quick turn times, and transparency.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

“Flagstar is an originator and servicer that also provides financing solutions through its warehouse and MSR lending businesses,” Smith said. “We And now, thanks to our acquisitions from Signature, we also can offer cash and treasury management services that focus on mortgage clients and businesses.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Through the program, the homebuyer uses Rocket Pro TPO’s digital client portal to apply, submit documents and e-sign. Rocket then generates loan estimates, closing disclosures and final closing documents to the client through the portal. “Rocket has always supported choice for our mortgage broker partners and their clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Texas-based mortgage lender Click n’ Close announced on Tuesday that its primary technology partner, Alabama-based mortgage banker Barr Group Mortgage, has completed the first eNote transaction using the Click n’ Close non-delegated correspondent eNote program.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They expect shops with a consumer direct model, which tend to be refi-heavy and rely on call centers for intake, will be more likely than retail shops to cut employees in the months to come. Retail people don’t get laid off as much because they own their book of business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world. 375% below the market.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

The company appointed Varun Krishna, a veteran in the financial technology world who held executive positions at Intuit and PayPal , as its new CEO. Rocket Companies announced major leadership changes on Monday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The company’s platform consists of multiple modules that are fully integrated to provide companies with a customizable solution that adapts to virtually any type of sales environment, including distributed retail, consumer direct, and wholesale mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the websites of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. The startup claims it helped 291 clients process roughly $1.4 New clients include lender and servicer Mr. Cooper , retail lender KeyBank , credit card company Bilt Technologies and credit union BECU.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

During this period of significant opportunity for purchase transactions and refinances, brokers and wholesale correspondents (non-delegated) need to align to wholesale lenders that provide deep industry expertise, comprehensive products and efficient operational support to support their clients’ strategies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential. Six months after raising $3.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

During the half-hour discussion, the panelists offered their takes on capital market appetite by channel, touching on the rise of the nonbank, regulatory challenges, IPOs, adaptation and technology, the upcoming adverse-market fee, MSR value and even the forbearance timelines. ” The banking tech laggard.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Flávia Furlan Nunes : Where is Rocket in its journey of becoming a fintech and reducing the cost to acquire a client? Bob Walters: We’ve repositioned and added many more products that our clients can take advantage of. That’s always relevant day in and day out to 2 million Rocket Money clients. Then you add 2.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Secondly, we are going to continue to invest in our technology and drive products, like One Day Mortgage, that are innovative and groundbreaking and drive the adoption of those products across the industry. That technology platform has helped us maintain best-in-class compliance and regulatory audits. The machine has to do all of them.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And in broader financial technology, public company fintech valuations are down 70-80%. If a great full cycle retail shop added wholesale or correspondent in past cycles, they may pare back to their core strengths. Cooper deal wasn’t just about Mr. Cooper, one of America’s largest servicers, becoming a software client of Sagent.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” Martell’s first big move as CEO was to announce the Vision 2025 plan in July 2022, which included simplifying the organizational structure, focusing on client service, quality, automation and operating leverage. We have four channels [joint ventures, retail, consumer direct and servicing]. Martell: We want our fair share.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

As mortgage and capital markets become increasingly digital , most lenders, regardless of their lending strategy, will eventually need an eVault, because eVaults are a requirement for moving eNotes through the digital mortgage ecosystem. What steps should a lender take before investing in eVault technology?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Director, Cloud and Data Technology. President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. AVP Retail Closing. Canopy Financial Technology Partners, LLC. SVP of Retail. Director, Technology Alliances. Aslan Home Lending. ICE Mortgage Technology. VP of Data Acquisition and Fulfillment.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Alex Boand Managing Director of Correspondent Group Sales Pennymac Alison Flinn Chief of Staff Development Amherst Amanda Morrow Director of Investor Relations Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Andres Munar Owner and President Co/LAB Lending Andrew Jewett (..)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2021

HousingWire’s virtual demo days are designed specifically to help mortgage industry decision makers identify the technology solutions they need to operate efficiently and securely. billion in 2018 and at one point had a retail operation. Mortgage Tech Demo Day. The parent company of Homepoint originated $46.3 30, 2020. a share.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 14, 2023

It is a place where we can show our clients just how valuable an appraisal can be. If our business revolves around mortgage lending, we are used to dealing with clients who have a certain level of sophistication. Many of us have learned to truncate our verbiage because our lending clients do not want to read volumes.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 19, 2023

Chat GPT For Fannie Form Appraisal Reports By Dustin Harris Excerpts: The world of real estate appraisal is constantly evolving (much to our dismay sometimes), and as professionals in this field, it is crucial to stay ahead of the curve by embracing innovative tools and technologies. I learned a lot. I understand completely.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. It’s smoother for the client,” Hussam said. UWM is actively courting more brokers and retail LOs to the wholesale channel.

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