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

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

MARCH 30, 2023

New Jersey-based Homebridge Financial Services will lay off 139 employees in June, three months after the acquisition of its retail division by CMG Mortgage, Inc. In addition, the company’s CEO, Peter Norden, will act as executive advisor to CMG’s retail division to ensure a successful transition. mortgage lender by volume last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

retailers and e-commerce merchants, and every $1 of fraud now costs $3.36, up from $3.13 As origination volumes hit record highs in 2020, Truework’s verification experts saw a spike in fraud in mortgage lending, and expect that trend to continue this year. across U.S. How lenders can prepare for growing fraud threats.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. It won’t be easy.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Head of Neighborhood and Community Lending. Built Technologies. Chief Technology Officer. Senior Executive Vice President, President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. SRE Technologies. Supreme Lending. Head of Home Lending. Planet Home Lending. President, Retail.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 22, 2022

DART (Digital Asset Registration Technologies Inc.), a combined lien and eNote registry system developed by Figure Technologies Inc. using blockchain technology, has two new integration agreements. The first is with Blue Sage , a cloud-based digital lending platform for retail, wholesale and correspondent lenders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

” The integration combines comprehensive eClosing technology with data-driven origination workflow automation. ” Finastra’s MortgagebotLOS, a web-based mortgage lending platform, supports retail, wholesale, and correspondent business channels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

When mortgage rates rose and demand for lower-priced mortgages grew, Kirby saw opportunities in the wholesale lending channel. Just having those additional layers in the retail model really creates strain there,” Kirby said in an interview. I developed a ton of great relationships over that time there.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. 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. trillion in 2020 and then $4.4

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

In his new role, Hogle will manage the firm’s retail operations, overseeing growth and development of retail sales and the production network, while supporting the firm’s business channels. Hogle has more than 20 years of experience, including about 15 years with Supreme Lending.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Rick Arvielo: What’s interesting about our growth is that we are the 13 th largest retail IMB in the country, but we’re only in about a third of the United States. We grew with a call center model for the first 10 years and only got into outside distributed retail 11 years ago. What made Draper and Kramer a good fit for NAF to acquire?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Trius Lending Partners (no.678), InstaLend is a tech-enabled real estate loan lender that provides capital to residential developers through streamlined technology and automated workflow, according to its website. We are doing a lot of research and development in it and artificial intelligence,” Slyusarchuk said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

The company’s job cuts include human resources, technology, talent acquisition, and executive assistant positions. Presented by: Acra Lending. Godin relaunched the business in late 2019 as a lender focused on both wholesale and retail channels. The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. “I was told by the recruiter this division – Rocket retail started a year ago. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. 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.”. Mat Ishbia, President and CEO.

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Simonson Real Estate

AUGUST 24, 2020

It was here that I had the opportunity to moderate the Banking and Construction Lending Update discussion with Patricia Gnetz of U.S. Based on lender interviews and market reports, appetite for lending on each of the property types generally falls into in the following ranking (in order of best to worst). We had a great discussion!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators. To run the hub, the company hired Casey Nunn, a former Rocket Mortgage and Homepoint executive, as the vice president of wholesale lending. Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

HW Media CEO Clayton Collins and Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies at Black Knight, discuss Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue and what the industry can expect from the company’s new Secondary Marketing Technologies division. How lenders will benefit from Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022. Wells Fargo: at least 114 employees in home lending. The bank’s revenues in the home lending business totaled $1.5 loanDepot: Unknown.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

He wondered how a smaller retail-and-wholesale shop could possibly compete with the likes of Rocket Companies , with massive budgets for technology and an ability to scale and expand margins. If I read Quicken ‘s materials, if I read on loanDepot’s materials, the general pitch is technology. Is this futile?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Patterson will be joined on the panel by Dave Vermillion , founder and CEO of Mortgage Champions , and Fred Bolstad , executive vice president of retail lending at U.S. Bank Home Mortgage. Patterson has led Homepoint’s third-party originations business since 2015.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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. 375% below the market.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Before he joined Home Point Financial, Hilzendeger was at Wells Fargo for 30 years, most recently with Wells Fargo Home Lending , where he led as head of Retail Operations, head of Servicing Operations, senior vice president of Default Services, and senior vice president of Real Estate Servicing. office’s Talent Development operations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

According to Garg, the company has developed a one-day mortgage product that provides a commitment letter within 24 hours. I’ve gone through extensive coaching and professional development,” he said. That technology platform has helped us maintain best-in-class compliance and regulatory audits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is designed to enable users to manage their entire lending workflow in one place, from the customer’s initial point of thought through investor delivery. All of these features come together to help lenders achieve operational efficiencies across their entire business for every lending channel.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

CEO Vishal Garg said in an interview with HousingWire that the company targets mortgage marketplace and white-label technology models. Better is focused on originating profitable business while pulling back from unprofitable channels, which resulted in the company shutting down its real estate arm and laying off employees in June.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

In this new role, Winokur will work to increase the company’s emphasis on diverse forms of nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) educational resources.Prior to joining CMS, Winokur served as chief marketing officer at Angel Oak Lending and was a 2022 HousingWire Marketing Leader. It is licensed to lend in 48 states.

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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. How should the current market impact lenders’ tech adoption? Presented by: Polly.

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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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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

RoundPoint Mortgage has added three new senior executives to its management team, as it prepares to ramp up its retail operations. RoundPoint also added a new chief administrative officer, Joseph Gormley, who formerly held senior positions at the department Housing and Urban Development. Freedom is one of the country’s biggest lenders.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Alex Boand Managing Director of Correspondent Group Sales Pennymac Alison Flinn Chief of Staff Development Amherst Amanda Morrow Director of Investor Relations Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Andres Munar Owner and President Co/LAB Lending Andrew Jewett (..)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Retail Branch Manager. SVP, Agent Engagement & Development. ICE Mortgage Technology. EVP, Retail Lending. Supreme Lending. VP of Product Development. VP, Lending Support. Company Name. Adam Greene. Sierra Pacific Mortgage. Alec Hanson. SVP Production, Pacific Southwest Division. Alex Khorn.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Director, Cloud and Data Technology. President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. AVP Retail Closing. Canopy Financial Technology Partners, LLC. SVP of Retail. Director, Technology Alliances. Aslan Home Lending. VP, Learning and Development. ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is famously no fan of crypto, the bank dove into the enigmatic world of blockchain-based finance in 2020 with the launch of Onyx , a business unit devoted to exploring and expanding the use of blockchain technologies. . also recognize the industry-changing potential of blockchain-enabled technology. .”

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