Amilda Dymi | May 16
Insiders agree that certain types of solutions can serve as the best antidote to the still pervasive mortgage loan repurchase challenge.
It is fueling a renewed drive to design tools that infuse all aspects of the mortgage production chain into coherent systems that are more efficient and transparent throughout the life of the loan.
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• Mortech Survey
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Austin Kilgore | May 15
Loan origination system vendor Mortgage Builder announced that it will acquire GCC Servicing Systems, the mortgage technology vendor it was spun off from in 1998.
Amilda Dymi | May 15
Zillow Inc. is intensifying its efforts to create an untraditional media model that expands through strategic acquisitions.
Austin Kilgore | May 14
The Federal Housing Administration will begin collecting full, electronic appraisal reports for the mortgages that it insures.
Austin Kilgore | May 14
The FHFA has created a financial incentive for executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure that deadlines for the Uniform Mortgage Data Program are met.
Brad Finkelstein | May 14
John Robbins has created mortgage production platforms from scratch before, most notably with American Residential Mortgage and American Mortgage Network. But his latest venture, he admitted, was in at least one way a little more difficult because of how the industry environment has changed in the past few years.
Austin Kilgore | May 11
Freddie Mac CIO Robert Lux shares his thoughts about the GSEs’ Uniform Mortgage Data Program.
Scott Kersnar | May 10
Deploying dual monitors improves the transition to paperless.
Scott Kersnar | May 10
Before implementing a mortgage tech strategy, lenders and servicers need to execute a hardware strategy.
Amilda Dymi | May 07
Demand, as a rule, leads to innovative business strategies. It is pressuring specialized vendors and other third-party servicers to strategize their business improvements so they can fill the gap created by the banks.
Brad Finkelstein | May 07
Citing a lack of transparency for both consumers and mortgage professionals, Experience 1 Inc. and its operating units Advantage Title and Title365 have come out with a new online platform Title365.com.
Andy Peters | May 07
Warehouse club Costco Wholesale started partnering with banks to offer mortgage services online last year, and it wants to get into auto lending and, perhaps, student loans.
Austin Kilgore | May 03
Davis Henderson, the Canadian technology company that acquired online point of sale vendor Mortgagebot for a staggering $232 million last year, completed the acquisition of loan origination system vendor Avista Solutions for $40 million, the company announced Thursday.
Austin Kilgore | May 03
A new Federal Housing Finance Agency initiative will require the government-sponsored enterprise to create a common data standard and new servicing form under the Uniform Mortgage Data Program.
