Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, the changes we’ve seen since the advent of the global pandemic are significant enough to serve as a catalyst that will drive all lending digital. The trends and lending requirements I’ve highlighted below became important long before the coronavirus made it to the U.S. Peering into the future of lending.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. Roughly 20% of Cliffco’s production comes from the wholesale channel and 80% of origination volume comes from its retail channel – through which it offers GSE, government loans and non-QM products. But the client gets to benefit from that.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In April, with the coronavirus pandemic raging across the country, leaders at JPMorgan Chase made the call: the bank was going to significantly tighten mortgage lending standards. Lake did not elaborate, and representatives for the retail bank did not immediately respond to HousingWire’s requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The merger will result in an “increased lending footprint” to better serve clients, Paul Kessel, president of American Portfolio, said in a statement. Lisa Thomas, chief executive officer of Town Square, added that the deal also brings “a portfolio of expanded loan products backed by a lending platform with state-of-the-art technology.”

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Housing Wire

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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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. It just has not gone well.”.

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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. and former U.S.

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Housing Wire

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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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

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

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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Simonson Real Estate

AUGUST 24, 2020

Since then, market uncertainty has caused commercial investors to increasingly worry whether their commercial appraisal analyses are accurate. . It was here that I had the opportunity to moderate the Banking and Construction Lending Update discussion with Patricia Gnetz of U.S. We had a great discussion!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America operates through retail, wholesale and correspondent channels. Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability. Through Guild Holdings, the lender’s management and the private equity investors planned to issue 8.5 LOs are only human — Tech is necessary to keep up with max loan volumes. Presented by: Total Expert. million of the $24.9

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It makes for exciting – and uneasy – times for lenders, investors and policy makers, panelists said at HousingWire Annual on Thursday. “This is where the rubber hits the road between the lender, the investor and the policy maker.” “As an investor, you’re looking at all this trying to figure it out,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

“In the second quarter we continued to expand our customer base and grow within existing customers, closed a large acquisition that will accelerate the advancement of our platform, and executed a successful IPO with strong investor interest and support,” Ghamsari said in a statement. It also said it now has deals with 32 of the top 100 U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2021

Absolutely, they will compress,” the UWM CEO told analysts and investors on the earnings call. Basically, their largesse, a growing number of partnerships, and the strength of their respective technology platforms will allow them to grow their slice of the pie, even in a time of waning refis, rising rates and limited home inventory.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

While it is true that many nonbanks entered this downturn with a large war chest of cash and capital, this is more than offset by the impact of warehouse and investor covenants, which are causing lenders to move expeditiously to cut costs,” Jim Cameron, Stratmor Group ’s senior partner, wrote in a report published this week. “In

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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. Every lender and investor has their own unique approach to doing business and their own mix of channels they utilize.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Secondly, we are going to continue to invest in our technology and drive products, like One Day Mortgage, that are innovative and groundbreaking and drive the adoption of those products across the industry. That technology platform has helped us maintain best-in-class compliance and regulatory audits. The machine has to do all of them.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

At that time, the company was valued by its investors at $7.7 In an interview with HousingWire , Garg said the company has shifted its strategy ahead of its IPO—Better plans to be a mortgage marketplace that sells its technology platform to other companies. “Our and created a refi boom for mortgage lenders like Better.

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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 hired a veteran of the retail mortgage sector, Scott Bristol, who previously oversaw national mortgage production at Flagstar Bank. Freedom is one of the country’s biggest lenders.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

eVaults also support an enhanced customer experience for borrowers and streamline interactions with other participants — warehouse lenders, investors, servicers, etc. eNotes and eVaults deliver operational and cost efficiencies for originators, warehouse lenders, investors, custodians and trustees. within the mortgage ecosystem.

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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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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

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. ICE Mortgage Technology. VP of Data Acquisition and Fulfillment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2021

Separate to the Homepoint IPO, Home Point Capital raised $500 million in a debt offering earlier this month, returning half of the proceeds to original investors and shareholders affiliated with its private equity backers. billion in 2018 and at one point had a retail operation. Mortgage Tech Demo Day. a share.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kathryn Amor, senior vice president and head of enterprise products at Guaranteed Rate , to talk about the intersection of product and technology. KA: Coming into 2023, a lot of people were just thinking about survival and there was a lot of movement going on with investors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A simplified, single user experience (UX) that can ensure the operators, homeowners , investors — and every other stakeholder involved — can see every relevant detail in real-time across systems is the kind of true innovation that will propel us forward as an industry.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 14, 2023

The terms “entrepreneurial incentive” and “entrepreneurial profit” are typically discussed in terms of investment property, but the principles involved can also be applied to the many fixer-uppers—whether the buyer is a “purely investor type” or an “owner occupied investor type.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. I’m not really focused on the margins for this quarter,” Ishbia told investors in UWM’s second-quarter earnings call. “It’s

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

million borrowers, thousands of investors and more than 100 subservicing clients. On the originations side, we’ve built a scalable, multi-channel lending platform that has grown volume by 16X in just the past year. This will obviously be attractive as investors and MSR holders cope with the aftermath of the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Within the past week, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, Charlotte-based Movement Mortgage , announced the acquisition of Mortgage Network, a deal that would add $2 billion in annual loan volume, 250 mortgage professionals and 31 branch offices to its network. “The

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

Additionally, ensuring the proper use of computer vision technologies and maintaining transparency in the valuation process are critical aspects that should be carefully addressed by state, federal and financial institution regulators and also addressed in USPAP. Added Kan, “Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Economists and investors have been upbeat about how the employment picture has remained mostly resilient in the wake of economic headwinds. It increased the Fed funds rate 11 times between March 2022 and July 2023, essentially from 0.25% to 5.25%, on the interest that banks lend to each other. Is the market getting ahead of itself?

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