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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio. So we’ll look for him to leverage his relationships into access to investors. Shant has an incredible network. We have a $25 million open series A funding round right now.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

FundingShield’s API driven fitnech services allow lenders, investors, homebuyers and title companies to confirm wired funds are going to intended recipients and transactions are free of impact from cyber fraud, phishing, business email compromise, or title fraud. increase in issues with proof of insurance in Q2.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following the closing of the [deal], FAM will no longer operate in the business of originating business purpose loans to residential real estate investors. “[Those assets] will continue to be sold or otherwise paid in full or liquidated in the ordinary course of business,” the company said in the filing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. If your state requires a lending license, make sure a the lender is licensed. Escrow officers and title agents.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential. Six months after raising $3.5

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JULY 19, 2021

Blend’s investors are apparently convinced that the company can radically transform lending, simplifying and digitizing regimented-but-clumsy processes that are still rather paperwork-heavy. Over the last two years, Blend has acquired its own mortgage insurance firm and title insurance firm (the latter in a $422 million deal).

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APRIL 29, 2022

While other “big four” title insurers discussed the “transitional period” in the housing market during their first quarter 2022 earnings calls with investors, Old Republic International Corp. ’s As expected, the firm’s title insurance segment did not have the greatest quarter. Presented by: Acra Lending.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. This setup lets a consumer compare quotes from several insurers, including Progressive, with only one click. market for homeowners’ insurance.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Among this impressive list of submissions, companies like 2022 TECH100 honoree Voxtur are working to improve the entire lending lifecycle. The company also made headlines in October for its decision to offer an Attorney Opinion Letter product for VA direct and VA-backed home loans as a compliant alternative to title insurance.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Accomplice led the round with participation from repeat Orchard investors FirstMark , Revolution Growth , First American , Juxtapose and a syndicate of new investors. It also launched its lending division, Orchard Home Loans, in July. Its rival, Knock , shifted its focus to lending around the same time.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The proposal would make it more expensive for large banks to hold, sell or service mortgages, reinforcing their now decade-long retreat from mortgage lending. Banks would be unable to improve the economics of mortgage lending by transferring the risk to a third party, a common practice in the mortgage industry.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Lenders invest significant time and money into building diverse portfolios of loan products designed to meet borrowers’ unique needs, yet those products often sit underutilized,” Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang Chief Lending Officer Joe Puthur said in a statement.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Bush and a vice president at Goldman Sachs before starting at the lender in 2021, listed several alleged violations related to lending practices. Investors looking to support low-income families would not purchase the lender’s loans if they knew they were provided to wealthy individuals or celebrities, the lawsuit states.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stone Point and Insight Partners are highly respected investors who recognize the value and potential of CoreLogic’s digital content, solutions and market-leading platforms that power the housing economy,” CoreLogic President and CEO Frank Martell said. Strategies lenders should adopt from direct to consumer lending. Sign up here.

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APRIL 10, 2023

However, when investors flocked to safe-haven assets in the wake of uncertainty in the banking sectors — which led to rates coming down roughly a quarter of a point — the mortgage industry saw another quick surge in originations, particularly the purchase market, Walden noted. before dropping to 6.4%

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Wells Fargo has been slapped with a $250 million civil money penalty by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for “unsafe or unsound practices” pertaining to their home lending loss mitigation program this week. As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud. Presented by: First American Data & Analytics.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com is teaming up with secretive big data firm Palantir to create a proprietary loan platform that is says will enable Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and mortgage investors to make “richer and deeper data-driven mortgage capital allocation decisions.”.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. Up until now, Xactus obtained data from third parties. Servicers, are you prepared for hurricane season?

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MARCH 15, 2023

The Company still maintains fully insured custodial deposit accounts at Signature,” the document says. “We It is now controlled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Several investors expressed concern about the bank’s exposure to crypto. Regarding its liquidity, loanDepot had $863.9

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Typically, the company does not hold such loans for more than two weeks, instead selling them to a group of investors – including Sprout Mortgage. Former employees accuse the company of retroactively cutting off their health insurance on May 1, 2022 without prior communication.

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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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JANUARY 19, 2023

There were no severance packages, and even health insurance was canceled retroactive to May 2022, leaving some on the hook for huge medical bills. The Smart Rate website mentions that the mortgage lender offers purchase and refinancings, jumbo, FHA, adjustable, bank statement and investors loans.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. But Interfirst’s tech bend has undoubtedly attracted some sophisticated investors.

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JULY 19, 2022

The lender’s 30-year crypto mortgage is designed to make it easy for investors to use their digital holdings to acquire homes in the U.S. Miami-based fintech Milo has closed $10 million in cryptocurrency mortgages since unveiling the product earlier this year, the company announced early Tuesday. or pursue refinancing.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

“The timing of the transaction is perfectly suited to allow our combined businesses to take advantage of anticipated growth in both servicing and investor-driven transaction volumes,” said Winters. This is the second acquisition for Accurate this year.

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MAY 26, 2021

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the early 20th century, Black Americans faced significant barriers to homeownership, including racial segregation, discriminatory lending practices, and exclusionary covenants that prevented them from buying homes in certain neighborhoods. Today, homeownership among Black Americans still lags significantly behind other demographics.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This includes making payments, analyzing and adjusting tax and insurance escrow accounts in real-time, requesting and processing help for hardships, and viewing and taking action on home value and available home equity. and see the same data their customer is seeing.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

At that time, the company was valued by its investors at $7.7 For things like homeowner’s insurance , title insurance, and realtors, we’ve now just become a marketplace. The deal with Aurora was announced in May 2021, when historically low-interest rates boosted a SPAC mania in the U.S.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

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. Before that Yankowski was president and CEO of Executive Title Insurance Services.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Despite this increase, First American’s newly appointed CEO , Ken DeGiorgio, said on an earnings call with investors that everyone at the company is proud of these achievements. billion in revenue from its title insurance and services segments, a 13% year-over-year increase. The post First American reports record breaking year?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite 2020’s pause in originations and securitizations, the 2021 outlook for non-QM lending is promising. Investors are returning to the space with more confidence, and new investors like private equities and insurance companies are showing interest. There are also increased opportunities for non-QM originations.

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MARCH 3, 2022

But this is going to become infinitely more complex,” said David Sheeler, executive vice president of correspondent lending and servicing finance at Freedom Mortgage Lending. Rocket was the number three issuer of Ginnie Mae-insured mortgages in February, originating $3.5 So, it may start to come down.

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