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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Demand from investors is still solid, albeit more guarded. Self-employed borrowers, real estate investors and credit-worthy borrowers who have recovered from credit issues will always be in the market. TH: Angel Oak has always prided itself on being a technology- and service-focused lender.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Build the right team Given the new technologies and expert outsourcing options available to lenders today, staffing up to handle new business doesn’t make as much sense as it did in the past. Fine-tune your tech stack Once your team is in place, it’s time to empower them with the right technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Financial wellness technology company EarnUp reached a new milestone last quarter, helping millions of Americans schedule mortgage, auto, and student loan payments through its Payday to Payday program and technology. Lending and servicing organizations turn to EarnUp to reduce risk and streamline operations.

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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 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage platforms of JPMorgan Chase , TD Bank , Guild Mortgage , HSBC Bank USA and more, allows different lending parties to bring in data and information from online sources that then tailors the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Founded in 2000, Irvine, California-based Inco-Check leverages its proprietary web-based platform to support GSE, regulatory agency, and investor requirements. With NGC’s acquisition of Inco-Check, the company aims to enhance loan quality and prevent fraud in a competitive mortgage and consumer lending market, Inco-Check said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The first phase of the portal will include APIs specific to Black Knight’s servicing technologies and will expand to include offerings in the lending and secondary markets space. “By Its new tools also allow lenders to cut costs in a higher-rate environment. billion , which valued the company at $85 per share.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Technology is growing at an accelerated pace. For investors, we can assist with finding problematic appraisals and evaluating them for a potential putback using the same process. AI is a valuable tool to support appraisers and appraisal management companies, enabling them to deliver more reliable and data-driven property valuations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“As we said last quarter, we were going to look into accepting cryptocurrency and test it to see if it’s a faster, easier and cheaper solution and thanks to our innovative technology team members, the transactions were successful,” Ishbia said. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. And investor guidelines are continually evolving. Over the past year, as more investors got comfortable with non-QM again, credit boxes widened quite a bit and investors were aggressively relaxing their guidelines.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. Capturing leads with tech Another priority for the lender is procuring leads through its proprietary technology. The database and the CRM tool is key for us to be able to monitor the different life cycles of the customer.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

The question was on the minds of many at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana Point, California on Thursday – will non-qualified mortgage products become more commoditized as the rising rate environment wallops agency lending? It’s not subprime lending. It shouldn’t be your one tool in your belt to serve the market.”.

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Housing Wire

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. ” Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the website of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Data and analytics giant Black Knight made moves in the secondary mortgage market again, launching its Mandatory Analytics dashboard that will allow investors to analyze and benchmark their actions on the secondary market. One of the best tools that mandatory investors have at their disposal is access to precise, accurate and timely data.”.

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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. We’re not huge, but we’re not small either.”. They are Vesta Equity , Oasis Pro Markets and Liquid Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2021

HousingWire: What does the performance of non-QM in the first half of 2021 tell us about the future of non-QM lending? As well, restrictions set forth by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac along with increased bank lending restrictions mean increased demand for non-QM. We can save the deal for our clients and the borrower.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

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 ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Investor expectations will change, and government entities will attempt to coordinate their response. Audience assets will be valued based on transaction volumes and bundles of listings, lending, loan sales and servicing and trading content. These essential tools require a collective commitment.

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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. billion in total securitizations – only a 33% decrease from its 2019 high.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s an opportunity here for risk and QC teams to encourage trust in the lending space through strong processes and review. Ensuring trust in lending opens doors for more creativity, such expansion of the credit box and additional products, ultimately increasing access to homeownership and therefore, expansion of the credit box.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The acquisition includes the components of ReverseVision’s full product suite including its core platform, ReverseVision Exchange (RVX), RVDOC Composer (RVDOC) that provides customized compliant reverse mortgage documents, and ReverseVision Sales Accelerator (RVSA) which includes advanced loan modeling and comparison tools.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

Clear Capital’s suite of field valuations, real estate analytics, and platform technology solutions help servicers prevent fraud, check the accuracy of completed appraisals and broker price opinions (BPOs), conduct portfolio valuation analysis and updates, and help with disposition analysis on distressed loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Broad in reach and deep in functionality, the PPE manages many core functions in mortgage lending, such as decisive product eligibility and sophisticated pricing strategies, as well as automating the rate-lock process. Black Knight also delivers leading risk management, loan trading, and MSR valuation solutions for lenders of all sizes.

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AmeriMac

JUNE 28, 2023

Investors are always on the lookout for ways to make informed, data-driven decisions. In recent times, alternative valuation products have emerged as a popular solution that investors can use to gain insights into the worth of their assets. BPOs may not satisfy the nuanced regulatory requirements of some lenders and investors.

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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

MARCH 5, 2021

I have no problem if they want to work with [those two] but I’m not going to give you our proprietary technology, that’s not for people funding the competition of the broker channel,” Ishbia said. You’ve got to be fast and efficient and UWM wins on that with our technology.” That’s our belief system.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

The company also was attracted to having a strategic investor such as Canapi, a $545 million fund which was co-founded by Gene Ludwig (founder of Promontory Financial Group ) and Chip Mahan ( Live Oak Bancshares CEO). Virtually every aspect of mortgage lending can be improved through digitization,” Mayopoulos added.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

CAPE Analytics has unveiled a new, AI-powered , automated property condition report (aPCR) tool crafted for institutional lenders, whole loan investors, and real estate investors. The common understanding of valuation, inspection and even property value is shifting, as more and more technology-enabled alternatives are emerging.

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Patch of Land

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Whether you’re a seasoned house flipper or just planning to take your first entrepreneurial step as a real estate investor, you should always be on the lookout for new tools, processes, and best practices that can help you improve your business. HouseCanary offers a free trial, and is a technology worth exploring. HouseCanary.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. With the advances we’re seeing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation, we have become experts at configuring our technology to meet the changing needs of lenders.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

In the rapid-fire, volatile mortgage marketplace , lenders need technologies to help them remain nimble and successfully navigate constant change. Using advanced PPE technology, lenders can accomplish this by identifying the most competitive products at the lowest rates possible. Robust and Competitive Product Offerings.

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Clear Capital

JUNE 14, 2022

We’re excited to announce that property rental data is now available in ClearProp , the lending-grade, industry-leading valuation tool. ClearProp is an interactive property valuation tool that provides a quick and reliable assessment utilizing more than 200 data points on nearly every property in the U.S. properties.

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