Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Configured to give independent mortgage banks, federally insured banks and credit unions the needed tools at an accessible price point, Floify Lender Edition aims to increase lender profitability through its automated processes and efficiency tools, the company said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

Here at Finance of America, we look at technology as an ‘and’ with our loan originators not an ‘or,’” Reich said. They should be utilizing this technology to make their job better, easier and more efficient. Outside of referral partnerships, tech plays a large role in helping build borrower relationships.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

. “Financial institutions can now combine those relationships they’ve already established, while leveraging Rocket Mortgage’s transformational platform powered by Rocket technology.” ” There are nearly 5,000 FDIC-insured banks and more than 5,000 credit unions in the U.S.

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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. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? Well, technology is now the sixth tenet, because you can’t do any part of the other ones without the technology and that’s where the big change has happened.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage Coach, founded in 2009 and based in California, offers an interactive borrower education platform that lets loan officers guide borrowers through a visual presentation of their loan options. Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

A passion for technology led her to work in the fintech and blockchain spaces, and she has now turned her attention to the senior finance space by founding a company called Graceful Finance. I came to their offices to speak to their loan officers, processors and customers because they told me, ‘We would love to do more.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. HW: What steps in the real estate transaction could benefit from further digitalization?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, there is an opportunity in the closing process for better integration between platforms to improve communication and sharing of documents between the brokerage, lender and closing company, each of which has its own process and technology, to relieve some of that stress.

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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

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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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

Flueid , a leading technology company specializing in real estate transactions, announced on Thursday the integration of its patented Flueid Decision platform with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The DOJ said that all of Lakeland’s branches were located in majority-white neighborhoods and that its loan officers did not serve the credit needs of Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Newark. Lakeland, a community bank, operates 68 branches in northern New Jersey and in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It also includes some new content, like a Q&A with Shant Banosian, Guaranteed Rate ’s top-ranked loan officer , and demos with top housing tech companies. Attendees will also get an exclusive front-row seat to demos from top tech companies, including Qualia , Westwood Insurance , Argyle , Evocalize and DocMagic.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. The company’s average mortgage loan was about $1.45

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Loan officers and mortgage executives alike continue to click on links in seemingly routine emails, ultimately giving bad actors complete access to lenders’ systems and mortgage transactions. a national title insurance underwriting company, said that a lot of the time the weak link in a phishing scheme is the real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Building upon technology-driven efficiencies, community values and leveraging expert loan officers and top eXp agents, we aim to create a unique mortgage solution that provides a better homebuying experience,” Sanford said in a written statement. The brokerage was the fourth-largest in the U.S.

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Clear Capital

JULY 13, 2023

Through this integration, Clear Capital will deliver an improved user experience for mortgage lenders and loan officers ordering products that support appraisal modernization, such as Universal Data Collection (UDC ) , Desktop appraisals and Hybrid appraisals. To learn more about Encompass, visit [link].

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. billion came from its origination technology, according to their earnings reports. Of the $387.2 Halbrook said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This technology became essential amid social distancing guidelines.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Technology plays a big role.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

ICE Mortgage Technology. Genworth Mortgage Insurance. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. Louis daRosa. VP of Engineering. Madisyn Rhone. Manager, Government & Industry Relations. Malte Kramer. CEO & Founder. Luxury Presence. Marc Hernandez. EVP, Retail Lending. Matt Garcia. Supreme Lending.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At each stage of the buying process, there are multiple siloed transactions, from appraisals, inspections and settlements to mortgage payments and homeowners’ insurance. Digitalization in the home lending industry does not always require companies to entirely invent new technology solutions. Right Processes Drive the Best Results.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Part of its effort to modernize its outdated technology systems, the FHA Catalyst program, hit a snag last year. In California’s Contra Costa County, where the median home listing price is now $749,000, a loan officer priced a loan for a potential borrower with less-than-perfect credit, who had found a listing for $650,000.

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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

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. Since we now have good coverage across those segments, our more recent investments have primarily focused in two areas – mortgage technology and commercial real estate. As of Sept.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Technology at the intersection of borrower and LO satisfaction. Panelists: Scott Betley, Loan Officer, NFM Lending Brena Nath, Managing Editor, HousingWire. Willison, Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company Sarah Wheeler, Editor in Chief, HousingWire. Sponsored by: Watch Now.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for California employees at six offices in Thousand Oaks, Pasadena, Roseville, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, and Moorpark. The latest round of WARN notices will impact 59 loan officers in the Thousand Oaks, Pasadena, and Roseville offices. Rosemont, Illinois-based Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The bank has 197 active loan officers and 12 branches across the country. The firm said it often finds positions elsewhere at USAA for those affected and encourages the impacted employees to apply for roles within its bank, property and casualty insurance group, and life insurance company. It has offices in seven U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Aaron Strawn, senior loan officer at Ruoff Mortgage (294% growth) pointed to his company’s leadership. “We Business Products & Services, Security, Financial Services, Insurance, IT Management, IT Services, IT Systems Dev, Software and Real Estate. We just have leadership that truly means and does what they say.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

But again, one of the unintended consequences of the compensation caps [is that it is sometimes] unrealistic to originate loans that have enough profit in them to substantiate that. So you’ve got to pay loan officers the same on any loans they originate. Where do you fall on that issue?

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

“A year later, we are proud to continue evolving this transformative technology for more mortgage lenders, including those without access to data scientists, to enable them to compete more effectively in today’s challenging marketplace.” CoreLogic has offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

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