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First Community Mortgage selects Blue Sage platform to scale business

Housing Wire

The move allows the lender to have “modernized its mortgage operational processes, boosted productivity and delivered an enhanced borrower experience for its customers,” the company said in a news release. The process to select a new technology partner began for First Community Mortgage (FCM) in mid-2023, the company explained.

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Patelco Credit Union Selects Empower LOS

Appraisal Buzz

Patelco Credit Union is now using the Empower LOS from Dark Matter Technologies to streamline and bolster home loan and home-equity origination. Patelco is California’s fourth-largest credit union mortgage lender by number of loans closed annually.

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Lower has a round of layoffs to “weather upcoming rate hikes”

Housing Wire

With the job cuts, Lower has now 1,200 workers across all its businesses, including retail, mortgage as a service, wholesale and its direct-to-consumer arm called Lower.com. Lower claims its platform allows distributed retail partners to connect into its infrastructure to benefit from its streamlined technology.

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Clear Capital and ICE Mortgage Technology Expand Partnership to Support Adoption of Modern Appraisal Programs

Clear Capital

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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Lisa Moriello talks tech, 2024 HECM limit and openness to reverse mortgages

Housing Wire

Lisa Moriello, the national retail reverse mortgage sales manager at multichannel lender loanDepot , recently spoke to RMD about how business in 2024 seemed to be off to a promising start. But modern classes of financial planners generally seem to be more open to conversations, based on Moriello’s conversations.

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United Wholesale Mortgage’s Blink+ tool includes an LOS, POS and CRM all in one package

Housing Wire

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. Jason Bressler, Chief Technology Officer.

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Nonbank lender job cuts could shorten the market downturn

Housing Wire

According to Cameron, the recent downturn has delivered the biggest and fastest rate increase in modern history — and the sharpest volume and revenue decrease the mortgage business has ever seen. Founded in 2001 as a retail originator, Interfirst Mortgage expanded into wholesale in 2008 and added a correspondent channel in 2011.

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