Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The company later told RMD, however, that the loan was within current product lending limits. When asked about the reportedly higher lending limit for this loan, a FOA spokesperson told RMD that the reporting on the loan amount is simply incorrect and that it is “within current HomeSafe lending limits.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Martin, Firth Third’s group head of mortgage warehouse finance, along with a team of warehouse lending professionals, will be based in Dallas. Warehouse lending offers short-term financing to mortgage bankers that provides interim liquidity until loans are sold or securitized in the secondary market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

HousingWire recently sat down with Steve Meirink, executive vice president and general manager, Compliance Solutions, Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Division, to discuss the impact of digital technology on mortgage and the future of digital lending in an era of accelerated innovation and digital transformation.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Though regulators have the power to ding lenders for violating fair lending law, none of the agencies can give a special purpose credit program their blessing. The watchdog agency provided clarity for the kind of research and data that go into creating a targeted lending program.

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Inman

APRIL 24, 2024

Mortgage lenders using AskMax no longer need to be database engineers. They can ask for — and receive — business intelligence in plain English.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2021

That has caused a remarkable shift to a digital lending model that has significantly impacted a lender’s ability to do business during these challenging times. It’s been a complicated year for the mortgage industry,” said Jim Houston, managing director of consumer lending and automotive finance intelligence at J.D.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Last week’s announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development cleared the way for lenders to adopt targeted lending programs, but so far, they are treading carefully. Special purpose credit programs allow lenders to target loan products to benefit protected classes without running afoul of fair lending law.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Automated underwriting for agency [ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ] products is definitely much easier because there’s a defined set of scenarios that you have to meet,” says Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending (a non-QM lender formerly known as Citadel Servicing ). million,” the report states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

What happens when borrowers can’t or won’t walk into a lending branch? HousingWire recently sat down with Insellerate CEO Josh Friend to discuss that very question and what strategies retail lenders should look to adopt from direct-to-consumer lending. Record low-interest rates have driven U.S. According to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. This interactive tool gives customers the ability to review information about their loans and easily perform tasks, such as making loan payments.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Tennessee-based multichannel mortgage lender First Community Mortgage announced on Wednesday that it has selected the Blue Sage Solutions digital lending platform and its LION Consumer POS to help scale its growth efforts across the 48 states it operates in. In FCM’s case, this also includes interim servicing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Home lending proptech Roostify is releasing the “first of many” APIs on its existing lending platform built to automate document validation and data extraction in the lending process. A super useful tool, given the tech can trigger additional steps if needed in what would typically be a paper-leaden trail.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

Another one would be home lending. A significant number of customers, more than 50%, agree they use digital banking tools more due to the pandemic than they did the year before. The post Chase sees huge digital adoption in home lending business appeared first on HousingWire. And so it was happening before the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dallas-based OneTrust Home Loans brought on James Hecht as its CEO to spearhead the company’s various mortgage lending divisions. Before joining OneTrust Home Loans, Hecht served as head of production and executive vice president for national retail lending at Newrez , formerly known as Caliber Home Loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool. Whether a person is new to the mortgage industry, transitioning to wholesale lending or looking for a resource to get their new hires up to speed, Success Track provides training options for every level. Jason Bressler, Chief Technology Officer.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November. The addition of some of Uplist’s tools such as SmartView, Quick Quotes or SmartBuyers will allow lenders to enhance the homebuying experience.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. 360training.com, Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

CoreLogic will manage real estate tax processing operations services for Wells Fargo Home Lending customers and oversee tax customer service via its Digital Tax Portal in order to drive payment accuracy, CoreLogic said in a news release. mortgages are serviced by CoreLogic tax solutions, the company’s website shows.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

CJ Rose was promoted to the role of executive vice president of growth and acquisition, while Chris Hutchens was hired as producing area manager for North Carolina and senior vice president of mortgage lending. Rose will be in charge of recruiting top talent, individuals, groups and companies throughout the industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Cabe, who most recently served as president of reverse mortgage lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. He also previously served as a reverse mortgage consultant for Security One Lending in the early 2010s. “I helped grow that company’s division after a series of changes and a reorganization of its leadership structure in 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

People take pride in their work when they believe that their leaders are invested in them as people — not just as tools to help them reap short-term rewards. Be proactive now about balancing your lending diet, equipping your staff to handle a range of responsibilities and solidifying your brand’s presence in the marketplace.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We are working on new tools to ensure a better customer experience for our partnering originators. Everything we do operationally is built on that premise. We are continuing that focus by working to streamline the origination process for loan officers through technology and process improvement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Automation has been applied fairly well to both the front office and back-office sections of the mortgage life cycle, he said, citing tools like point-of-sale and loan officer portals on the front-office as well as the acceleration of digital closing capabilities on the back-office, but there are still opportunities for improvements to the process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

on Monday announced that Frontwave Credit Union will now implement Empower, Black Knight’s cloud-based loan origination system, and its integrated solutions, for the expansion of its mortgage lending operations. Black Knight, Inc. The LOS accounts for about 10-15% market share.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technology has made many aspects of day-to-day life more seamless than ever, with instant, easy and personalized consumer experiences; however, lending is still difficult. The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster.

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Kairos Appraisal Services

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Kairos Appraisal, we take pride in providing an efficient and streamlined appraisal process that benefits our borrowers, our lending partners, and most importantly our appraisers. We talk a lot about our real estate appraisal tools, but one thing we don’t talk about enough is how we integrate technology to support our appraisers.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

He spent over a decade in various executive and managerial positions, where he led a highly successful team that included analytics, risk management, training, communications and vendor management while managing two of the top five lending institutions and the firm’s GSE relationships.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Over the past couple of years, I have learned that Guaranteed Rate is truly the company with all the tools and the platform to help originators grow their business and provide the best service for customers and clients.” Since leaving Guaranteed Rate, Nelson held executive positions at Nations Lending and Movement Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

They argue that understanding the technology is imperative when choosing a specific tool to deploy. “In But even with this expected influx of investment capital and user demand, BlackFin’s paper finds that mortgage companies are struggling today to implement AI tools in an efficient manner. trillion in 2032. trillion in 2032.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech firm specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, acquired SigniaDocuments, a technology suite from Texas-based lender Evolve Mortgage Services. Founded in 2018, Stavvy works to increase efficiency and transparency in real estate and mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Enhancing our clients’ tech stacks with simple, digital-first tools is the foundation of our company’s mission, and it’s integrations like these that help us further that mission,” Patrick O’Brien, LenderLogix co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Our singular focus at The Loan Store is to equip our partners with tools and products that enable them to cast a wider net and support more homebuyers in their respective communities,” Phil Shoemaker , CEO of The Loan Store, said. In April, the lender bought the wholesale lending business from the now-defunct Home Point Capital.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

“We’ve demonstrated the power of Total eClose through our integration with Finastra’s MortgagebotLOS, creating an innovative automation tool for every eClosing originated through the solution,” Dominic Iannitti , president and CEO of DocMagic, said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the world of mortgage lending, there’s an all-too-common sentiment that echoes through the industry: “My loan origination system (LOS) sucks.” Instead, lenders should focus on identifying the right tools for the job and setting realistic expectations for each. The LOS is a foundational piece of technology for every lender.

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