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Free Webinar: Components of AMC Training by Josh Walitt

Appraisal Buzz

Certain states require AMC staff to receive training to ensure they understand valuation independence regulations as well as other statutory requirements. Our free webinar, “ Components of AMC Training ” will be held on June 10th at 2 pm with Josh Walitt as the host. Buzz : Why do AMCs need the training?

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Industry vet launches new mortgage CE company, MLO Force

Housing Wire

The aim is to leverage the pair’s experience in content, training and digital production to make required NMLS training more fun, Knottingham said. “Our goal is to continually enhance our offerings and deliver impactful, responsive training that meets the evolving mortgage industry needs.”

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Informative Research Hires Kurt Raymond as Senior Vice President 

Appraisal Buzz

He spent over a decade in various executive and managerial positions, where he led a highly successful team that included analytics, risk management, training, communications and vendor management while managing two of the top five lending institutions and the firm’s GSE relationships.

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Opinion: The role of the LO will soon be very different

Housing Wire

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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As the housing market bottoms out, educating the future mortgage pro becomes paramount

Housing Wire

In 2021, Gigliotti created Axis 360 Lift , an online academy designed to educate aspiring mortgage and title professionals. 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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Borrowers want consistency through the lending process – Here’s how to give them that

Housing Wire

The third type of automation included in Indecomm’s continuum is supervised automation, which involves human oversight for the ongoing training of machine learning algorithms and engines and exception processing to handle fall-outs from any automation effort. That is where supervised automation comes in.”. State of Mortgage Automation.

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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

The original forms were designed before the digital age, to be completed on typewriters. Appraisal software companies have innovated the process of “filling out “these forms, but they are still constrained with the original typewriter design. These forms became fixed in the mortgage industry and have remained the standard for decades.

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