Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Despite advances in technology, the mortgage industry still lacks efficiency. Mortgage executives are aware of a problem: despite billions of dollars in technology investments , the mortgage industry still largely looks like it did two decades ago. Bank Home Mortgage. But it’s a challenge.

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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. Black Knight is preparing to be acquired by ICE, the other mortgage tech giant in the data space.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The loan repurchase trend that began to sting many mortgage originators in 2022 appears to finally be winding down, according to a recent report by Sterling Point Advisors and Augment Analytics. It makes sense that the investors are asking lenders to ward off as many problems as possible [via QC efforts] before a loan is made.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2021

Fintech lender Figure Technologies is going full force in to the mortgage lending – and now servicing – blockchain revolution. Just one week after its announcement that it would merge with lender Homebridge Financial Services , the company revealed a partnership with loan servicing software developer Sagent. billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

ConsumerDirect Mortgage rebranded itself to Real Genius and announced the launch of a modern mortgage application platform to simplify a borrower’s experience. Additionally, the lender promises borrowers a “personalized approach” and “access to veteran mortgage professionals.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

trillion mortgage servicing sector shouldn’t be “disrupted” by financial technology, it should be reimagined with fintech. Most new-to-mortgage fintech folks who overuse the word “disruptor” will start by asking, “What are your requirements?” America’s $13.3 but that’s the wrong question.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Moon Mortgage, a crypto-backed mortgage provider, on Tuesday announced raising a $3.5 Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets. The product also takes the investors’ digital assets as collateral and gives 100% financing for investment properties.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Patricia Suazo has joined FundingShield as its vice president of technology operations and integrations. Suazo has over 15 years of leadership experience in the mortgage lending space with firms including Stearns Lending , Bank of America , Carrington Holding Company and CloudVirga.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Toronto-based cryptocurrency lending platform Ledn has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round to support the growth of its digital assets lending business, including a new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product. Other investors included Golden Tree Asset Management , Raptor Group , and FJ Labs. dollars for mortgage transactions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

announced on Thursday that the Optimal Blue product, pricing and eligibility engine (PPE) has added investor content from 54 state-based housing finance agencies (HFAs). HFAs provide affordable homeownership options to low- and moderate-income borrowers through down payment and closing cost assistance, as well as reduced mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

After ringing the bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday morning, Mat Ishbia’s United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is a publicly traded company. UWM, the second-largest mortgage originator in America , debuted trading at $11.95. In the third quarter, UWM originated $54 billion worth of mortgages. By 10:45 a.m.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Industry workers didn’t pull back on investing in professional development, with the majority (51%) spending money to reach potential clients. in events to garner business. About 23.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital mortgage and fulfillment platform Maxwell has raised $16.3 Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Founded in 2013 by Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby and Alex Perelman, Peer Street developed a marketplace connecting lenders and borrowers seeking capital to investors looking for real estate-related debt. The business attracted investor Michael Burry, one of the featured players in “The Big Short.” million, down 23.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

A rising player in the world of crypto-mortgages and blockchain-enabled financing, LoanSnap, plans expand its reach in the market by opening its lending platform to licensed mortgage brokers across the country in the near future. It’s an open platform. We’re not huge, but we’re not small either.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

million in its seed round to build a mortgage-as-a-service platform for fintechs, banks and retail banks. Conversion Capital led the funding with participation from Fifth Wall , Peter Thiel , QED Investors , Montage Ventures , and Village Global as well as Ramp , Blend , Zillow , SoFi and Figure , the company announced.

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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

MAY 28, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Aditya Udas, managing director at Iron Mountain, about the potential for digital transformation of mortgage custodial duties and how Iron Mountain is innovating collateral management. HousingWire: How does custody transformation impact the mortgage industry? AU: Firstly, the issue of scalability.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 29, 2024

Dovenmuehle Mortgage reports that Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed its servicer quality (SQ) assessment as a servicer of prime residential mortgage loans at SQ2-. Dovenmuehle says the assessment underscores its exceptional capabilities across various key areas of mortgage servicing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, borrowers who are prime and creditworthy but who may not qualify for traditional mortgages, such as the self-employed or those with non-traditional income sources, may benefit from non-QM programs. As a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) — a designation given by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs isn’t changing its strategy to survive a shrinking mortgage market, even though a drop in originations is sapping its revenue stream and forcing it to trim its workforce. million per year in savings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. COVID19 certainly accelerated development and focus on servicing, coming out of 2019 with record low default and foreclosure.”. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

As Chief Strategy Officer at Mortgage Capital Trading , Leslie Winick has harnessed her industry experience to help lead new technology innovations and industry-leading support that allowed MCT to continue to meet client needs despite the volatility of the past year. What is your company doing to develop the next generation of leaders?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. To run the hub, the company hired Casey Nunn, a former Rocket Mortgage and Homepoint executive, as the vice president of wholesale lending. In returning from its three-year hiatus, Interfirst said it had reinvented itself as a tech-forward mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. SW: How do you think about technology and prioritizing what to do next? What’s changing there?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. As of Sept. Here is how Hurst, via email, responded to our questions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Private equity firm Narrow Gauge Capital (NGC) acquired Inco-Check, LLC , a provider of quality control audit mortgage software and fraud prevention services. Founded in 2000, Irvine, California-based Inco-Check leverages its proprietary web-based platform to support GSE, regulatory agency, and investor requirements.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

Rocket Mortgage originated more than $100 billion in mortgages for yet another quarter, but profit margins are trending down. And the country’s largest mortgage lender expects a good-sized slowdown in the second quarter of 2021. The post Rocket Mortgage prepares for a slowdown appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

California-headquartered LoanSnap was hit with a temporary order to cease and desist from Connecticut’s Department of Banking for “systemic” unlicensed mortgage loan origination activity. These individuals also received inbound calls from individuals interested in obtaining mortgage loans, the order stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

You’re talking about many hundreds of investors with their different rules and what they’re willing to underwrite. From a technology perspective, we’re cloud native with our infrastructure and very focused on being scalable and a reliable platform. SS: I think it is a significant advantage. 1 position forever.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2021

Venture capital-backed mortgage lender Better.com is going international. The company, which is expected to go public later this year, has agreed to acquire United Kingdom-based digital mortgage brokerage Trussle. Trussle’s investors include American bank Goldman Sachs and Amsterdam-based venture capital fund Finch Capital.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For the system to work, mortgage-backed security investors need an efficient and verifiable means to know that all loans in their securities comply with this law, and originators and issuers want certainty that they are not running afoul of the Bureau. Even so, it is not the entire ATR rule requirement. Demographics are shifting, too.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In January I received a text message from Dave Savage, CEO of Mortgage Coach. News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). Hey Clayton …” and a link. No surprise here.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

After nearly three years of doom and gloom in the mortgage industry, housing experts — including Fannie Mae economists — are expecting interest rates to ease. Connie Kim : Fannie Mae calls for mortgage rates to dip below 6% by the end of this year. If mortgage rates get down to 5%, then I think there is a nonlinear piece to it.

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