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Pennymac shakes up tech leadership

Housing Wire

Pennymac Financial Services has made changes to its technology leadership, creating a new role focused on digital innovations, the company announced on Tuesday. He had a crucial leadership role in Pennymac’s mortgage fulfillment, production business technology and servicing divisions.

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Flyhomes acquires Home Sale Assured

Housing Wire

Founded in 2022 by Eric Meadow, Home Sale Assured produces a “Guaranteed Backup” options contract, which enables existing homeowners to buy their next home before closing the sale of their current home. He most recently served as the president of troubled, largely defunct retail lender Celebrity Home Loans.

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loanDepot accuses ex-COO Tammy Richards of stealing customers’ information

Housing Wire

California-based nonbank lender loanDepot is suing former chief operations officer Tammy Richards for breach of contract and fiduciary duty, accusing her of stealing confidential information concerning the lender’s customers. loanDepot filed the lawsuit on Oct. But “instead, Richards crumbled.”

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Anxiety grips LOs as layoffs sweep the industry

Housing Wire

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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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

Housing Wire

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. Building the plane while flying it.

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What are the building blocks of digital lending?

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently sat down with Steve Meirink, executive vice president and general manager, Compliance Solutions, Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Division, to discuss the impact of digital technology on mortgage and the future of digital lending in an era of accelerated innovation and digital transformation.

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Mat Ishbia talks the ‘loser mentality,’ the controversial ‘ultimatum’ and the years ahead

Housing Wire

All these other retail lenders are doom and gloom, saying: “The market is so hard, I gotta wait for next year.” The only originators are retail or wholesale. Small retail lenders originate the loan, close it, and then sell it to Pennymac. The retail lender. ” We recognize what reality is. They buy loans.

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