Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When asked to recommend AI application ideas for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to develop for the mortgage industry, lenders pointed to appraisal automation, borrower income/employment verification , data/documentation reconciliation and standardization, and compliance management.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. 5, according to the document reviewed by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

Despite the increased pace, the industry as a whole still has room for continued tech development and usage. HousingWire sat down with Renata Sheyner, vice president of product at CreditXpert, to learn more about key technologies that lenders need to give more attention to. This is where technology demonstrates its value.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By writing and maintaining all of the code along with investing heavily in putting together a world class modern IT infrastructure that efficiently leverages a mix of modern technologies like the public cloud and API based software architectures, UWM has been able to turn on a dime and stay well ahead of shifts in the market utilizing technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Lenders need to be able to grow their business in a way that is not linear and is not tied to the market cycles – leveraging automation technology can help. The company’s solutions involve applications of a few different types of automation technology. Indecomm’s Automation Continuum.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In November, Interfirst issued pink slips to hundreds of non-commissioned loan officers at its call centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Rosemont, Illinois, according to WARN notices in both states. Clients upload all documents into their loan origination system directly to reduce/eliminate operational staff.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Erickson will be in charge of product management, the procurement and advancement of technology solutions and will oversee the training department and support teams for Motto Mortgage and wemlo. Goldman will be responsible for Floify’s sales development strategies. Dan Goldman, vice president of sales at Floify.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

“To be competitive in today’s correspondent market, lenders must be able to offer their sellers a simple, self-service platform,” said Rich Gagliano, president of Black Knight Origination Technologies. suburbs in the upcoming months. suburbs in the upcoming months.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The virtual notary services industry has become increasingly popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses have adopted remote signatures to adhere to social distancing protocols while closing on mortgages and other loans. In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Saluda Grade , a real estate advisory and asset-management firm specializing in alternative lending products in the nonbank sector, and its fintech partner, Unlock Technologies , this week priced the industry’s first rated securitization backed entirely by shared-equity contracts (which Unlock calls HEAs).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Last Friday, HomeSmart filed an “ S-1 ” with the Securities and Exchange Commission , a document that conveys HomeSmart’s intention to sell company shares to prospective investors and the public. HomeSmart, like Compass , Keller Williams , eXp and other brokerages, states it has unique technology to modernize real estate.

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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. The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. There is definitely a learning curve with non-QM: the products, the underwriting and documentation requirements (for example, bank statements vs. W-2s for income) are all different.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

In addition, loan officers can act as trusted advisors to the borrower and keep referral centers happy, with 24/7 visibility into the appraisal process, which historically has been considered the “black box” of the mortgage process. Kevin Flynn, Vice President, Product.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Sandra Madigan, EVP of product strategy – servicing technology at ICE Mortgage Technology , about improving the home buying and ownership experience with technology and how the industry can do so thoughtfully. What do you think the disconnect is there, and do you see this changing in the future?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

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. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I Without that being built, I was starting from scratch.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

Fintech software and hardware company Mortgage Automation Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday that it has integrated its next-generation point of sale system, The BIG Point of Sale, on the latest API Platform available through ICE Mortgage Technology , a division of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent company of Rocket Mortgage , hired its first chief technology officer this week, bringing former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive Shawn Malhotra into the fold. As a technologist, one of the biggest strategic imperatives that we have is to bet big on technology , and specifically AI technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched verification of income (VOI) and verification of employment (VOE) waterfall technology that aims to save lenders and mortgage brokers time and reduce costs during the loan origination process. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. With the advances we’re seeing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation, we have become experts at configuring our technology to meet the changing needs of lenders.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Technological connectivity The new generation of buyers is going all in on technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In my career, I’ve swung between enabling technology and securing it at the same time. So, we’re not little, but we’re not big, like some of these companies with 500 developers. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? People are just clamoring for technology to get an edge, especially now.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 2, 2022

The number one point to make with our industry is that due to the incredible new capabilities of mortgage fintech, we need to rethink technology. Instead of thinking about the process and how to plug technology into the different steps, we need to think about the capabilities of the technology and how we change the process to adapt to it.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lenders have come to appreciate the benefits technology can bring – but those benefits are only useful if the implementation of new tools doesn’t make the loan process more complicated. Information is routed from the borrower to the loan origination system and vice versa, with the solution providing prompt feedback.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

A customized loan application developed for Angel Oak Home Loans will support both agency mortgage and non-QM lending “for borrowers of diverse financial backgrounds,” said Shane Westra, chief product officer at Simple Nexus. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The company’s powerful, end-to-end eMortgage technology is available via an intuitive interface that can be deployed quickly, and the company prides itself on its highly consultative approach designed to make the transition as easy as possible. By 1988, it was incorporated and had employees, functional technology and customers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

Scheduling and even to some degree the ability to scan documents without as much human attention have also been improved. Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) The loan officer might send something via encrypted email.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Empower is helping lenders reduce, and in some cases, eliminate many pain points in today’s origination process by delivering configurable, dynamic capabilities in one complete system,” said Rich Gagliano, president of origination technologies. Rich Gagliano, President, Origination Technologies.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 1, 2021

Paying for small, everyday purchases with cash can help you develop self-discipline and prevent you from spending money you could otherwise put toward saving for your down payment. If you have or will be receiving a gift from your family to help with your down payment, include this amount on your mortgage loan application.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Few things terrify lenders more than the arrival of a manila envelope from the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) containing a redlining allegation. Part of its effort to modernize its outdated technology systems, the FHA Catalyst program, hit a snag last year. Premium product.

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