Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool. This allows UWM to build our own technology and deploy faster rather than rely on other vendors and continues to level the playing field for mortgage brokers.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Business Lines, Services and Products. Originations.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

CF Wholesale provides brokers with the resources and technology to drive their business and serve their clients. At CF Wholesale, we give them the tools to self-serve. Piecemeal conditions: Brokers can send documents as they are received from their clients. Colin Treend, Executive Vice President of Wholesale Lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the country embraces technology now more than ever, lenders and title companies have an opportunity to embrace the possibilities of mortgage technology to connect with consumers in new ways and grow their businesses. You want to maintain that ‘good feeling’ with your clients. No paper or printing is a huge cost saver.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

a provider of property data and valuation technology solutions. With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last spring, the housing industry was forced to pivot its traditionally in-person processes and harness available technology resources amid the spread of COVID-19. Technology needs to support the business, not define how the business operates,” Crisenbery said. “We A great example is remote online notarization.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HousingWire: What role has wholesale lending historically played in the mortgage ecosystem?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Braheem, former co-founder of Loan Toolbox — an online resource for training, tools, support and coaching — launched The Loan Atlas, a mortgage coaching platform, earlier this year with mortgage executives and top loan officers joining as faculty members. So, kind of like a turnkey kit to get in front of a one-to-many type situation.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

“We’ve demonstrated the power of Total eClose through our integration with Finastra’s MortgagebotLOS, creating an innovative automation tool for every eClosing originated through the solution,” Dominic Iannitti , president and CEO of DocMagic, said.

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Lending Tools Retail Clients 340

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. DB: Warehouse lending has evolved beyond traditional boundaries.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Enhancing our clients’ tech stacks with simple, digital-first tools is the foundation of our company’s mission, and it’s integrations like these that help us further that mission,” Patrick O’Brien, LenderLogix co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Figure , a blockchain-focused financial service company and Apollo , a global alternative asset manager, announced today completing a transaction involving the origination of digital mortgage loans and transfer of ownership via blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technology has made many aspects of day-to-day life more seamless than ever, with instant, easy and personalized consumer experiences; however, lending is still difficult. In return, borrowers have a lending experience that is streamlined and more personalized.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mortgage lending businesses tend to place the greatest value on production-oriented LOs — and it shows in compensation formulas tuned in to new applications and new loans rather than customer retention and loyalty. This requires deeper connections with homeowner borrowers and empowering LOs to own the consumer experience.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2024

Informative Research , a provider of borrower verification solutions and data, has integrated Veri-Tax , a provider of income and employment verifications, with its platform, thus giving mortgage lenders access to advanced validation tools that elevate the accuracy and reliability of borrower information.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle. Its new tools also allow lenders to cut costs in a higher-rate environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Additionally, creating compelling content on a regular basis and maintaining separate systems or tools for its dispersal is stressful, cumbersome and time-consuming. Its sophisticated hierarchy easily accommodates any organization’s expansion plans, including support for multiple lending channels, brokers and brands.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We also like to build our own technology and develop tools and products that give our LOs an advantage in the field and enhance the experience with our customers. That allows us to turn our clients into cash buyers, which will be very relevant as the housing market heats up. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Uday Devalla, EVP, Chief Technology Officer at Sagent. And nothing builds customer loyalty like giving your borrowers immediate, easy self-serve tools to get hardship help. The post What role does the servicer play in creating clients for life? appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The lender originated approximately $309 million in mortgages in 2022, according to data from mortgage technology platform Modex. In a note to clients Tuesday evening, mortgage analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said they’ve seen a modest pickup in mergers & acquisitions activity in recent months.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. That’s not a good experience,” Hydrew said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

In times when overall industry transactions are dwindling, non-QM loans can drive new business and open the door to a new subset of potential clients. The right technology isn’t a perk; it’s a necessity Differentiation requires a combination of exceptional service, unique value propositions, and effective communicating of your expertise.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

Historically, though, professionals let their clients go after the transaction is complete rather than building a moat around the client that assures future transactions. The newest prop tech applications to moat the client relationship are home management tools. Evolve the technology stack.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

With NGC’s acquisition of Inco-Check, the company aims to enhance loan quality and prevent fraud in a competitive mortgage and consumer lending market, Inco-Check said. Boston, Massachusetts-based NGC, founded in 2015, is focused on making investments in health care services, financial services technology, distribution and logistics sectors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Technology is growing at an accelerated pace. When it concerns an assignment we worked on, we have a specialist team evaluate the complaint and advise our client on their response. We also assist clients with repurchase demands on loans we did not provide services. The product environment is rapidly changing.

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Valuation Appraisal Process Appraisal Lending 385

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who invest in technology often ask the question: is this a “nice to have,” or a “need to have?” Few have the resources to invest in technologies they don’t need. What’s the worst that can happen if we don’t invest in this technology?”. This new technology gave him the time to teach his injured brain to talk again.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

billion valuation, CEO Mat Ishbia today unveiled a new tech tool that he claims will bring “game-changing flexibility” to brokers. The app will enable brokers to instantly lock or extend loans; submit, review and track changes of circumstances; upload and review cleared conditions/invoices; and create and manage client requests.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

If you’re an LO, you need to offer your clients something that fits today’s narrative — making the most of the home that you’ve got, while being on-call to help when someone needs to borrow money or move. HW: What types of technology can lenders use to improve the borrower experience? This is where Milestones fits in.

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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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Finance Lending Clients Technology 284

Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Better, faster, cheaper has long been the promise of technology in the mortgage industry. Some may argue whether today’s technology is that much better than the tools we used in the past, particularly in the servicing business where many still use platforms designed and first built decades ago. Tripping over our own technology.

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Mortgage Technology Tools Modernization 406

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Capturing leads with tech Another priority for the lender is procuring leads through its proprietary technology. But in today’s marketplace with technology, we actually have the ability to get in front of the customer first, incubate the leads, and then give it back to the Realtors. But the client gets to benefit from that.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

An LO with a client at the closing table. The question was on the minds of many at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana Point, California on Thursday – will non-qualified mortgage products become more commoditized as the rising rate environment wallops agency lending? It’s not subprime lending.

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Lending Investors Mortgage Clients 369

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This was the first earnings delivered by Rocket’s new CEO, Varun Krishna , who focused his conversation with analysts on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to transform the business. The company is integrating large language models to encompass over 3,300 new loan scenarios to the tool.

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