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

JULY 11, 2024

By focusing on these technological advancements, Opteon not only improves the appraisal process but also offers significant competitive advantages to its lender customers. Opteon’s approach to data collection addresses these challenges by integrating cutting-edge technology with professional expertise.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

HighTechLending , a California -based top-10 reverse mortgage lender, announced on Friday that it is rebranding its wholesale lending division to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology reported operating income of $57 million in 2022, down from last year’s $397 million — a reflection of the headwinds the mortgage industry is facing. More than 60% of the clients renewed their subscription at a higher rate than they did at the beginning of the quarter, Jackson explained.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If we learned anything from HousingWire’s recent AI Summit , artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping lending by streamlining processes, reducing costs, and enhancing the overall borrower experience. In addition, the regulatory environment is ever-changing and with it comes increased burdens on the lending industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Benchmark Administration (IBA) , will take on a new role as president of ICE Mortgage Technology starting on March 1. ICE’s appointment of Bowler as incoming president ICE Mortgage Technology comes at a crucial time for the company. ICE Mortgage Technology is also eyeing increased sales in its Encompass loan origination system in 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

ICE Mortgage Technology presents their solution that also serves as an overhaul of the home financing process. As they put it, “We give our clients a complete ecosystem of proven tech, data, and analytics that supports the whole real estate and housing finance journey.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies? Presented by: Axis Technical Group.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Apprasial management company Valligent , which was recently acquired by enterprise risk management and collateral valuation services provider VerosTM , announced today that it has integrated with the ICE Mortgage Technology platform Encompass.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS has integrated with ICE Mortgage Technology, a division of global data, technology, and market infrastructure provider Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Benchmark Administration (IBA), will step in as president of ICE Mortgage Technology starting March 1.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Los Angeles -based Dunmor , a technology -enabled lender that specializes in loans for residential real estate investors , has added a pair of experienced executives in the business-purpose lending space.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2022

Milo , a Miami-based digital lender, will soon offer a crypto mortgage to clients with digital assets. According to Milo’s press release , clients who use the company’s services can pledge their Bitcoin to purchase a property. If a client qualifies, they will receive a low interest rate 30-year crypto mortgage, the company said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

As the world races towards increased digitization, mortgage professionals are striving to keep up with the demand for convenient lending solutions that allow borrowers to navigate the process from the comfort of their own homes. Rich Gagliano, President, Origination Technologies.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

announced this week the appointment of Gabe Bodner to the head of its 55-plus lending division which includes its reverse mortgage business. I believe that the executive team at OneTrust has ultimately realized the importance of utilizing education with older clients, and specifically in the reverse mortgage space.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated efforts in the mortgage industry to adopt technology such as remote online notarization , known as RON, to create a lending process that is completely digital. As technology moves toward paperless transactions, state laws have lagged. 10 report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

This week, industry experts discuss how to navigate client and referral partner expectations and minimize closing times when factors like these begin to decelerate the buying process. Poulos warns though that while tech-like automation can leverage incredible opportunities, the relationship element of lending cannot fall to the wayside.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

San Antonio, Texas-headquartered USAA eliminated 130 positions in the real estate lending group amid projections that the mortgage industry will shrink in 2023. In August, the bank issued pink slips to an undisclosed number of employees in human resources, client advising, information technology, according to the outlet.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

a provider of property data and valuation technology solutions. With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 21, 2024

Incenter Lending-in-a-Box President Ralph Armenta Ralph Armenta has joined Incenter Lender Services as President, Lending-in-a-Box. These will be offered through Incenter’s digital Lending-in-a-Box platform on a “plug and play” basis—helping clients start building a new revenue stream, with marketing support.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Tavant , a Silicon Valley-based digital lending solutions provider, is adding a new product called Asset Analysis to its AI-powered digital lending platform, Touchless Lending. Touchless Lending provides straight-through mortgage processing and automated underwriting as part of the end-to-end mortgage manufacturing pipeline.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Uday Devalla, EVP, Chief Technology Officer at Sagent. The post What role does the servicer play in creating clients for life? Until recently, mortgage servicing was more about cash-flow math than consumer experience. Finally, customer expectations for both push-button simplicity and smart human advice are changing the game.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

The Blueprint Builder features more than 60 third-party integrations, allowing lending teams to connect with other pieces of their workflow, from credit and verifications to pricing and disclosures. In the current environment, a rigid, static technology stack can prove fatal.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

On last week’s episode of the Power House podcast , host Clayton Collins and guest Joe Tyrrell, the CEO of Optimal Blue , go in depth on how the mortgage technology firm pushes AI-driven data solutions, innovation and leadership for lenders interested in making better data-driven lending decisions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The brokerage has entered into a joint venture with Barrett Financial Group to offer what the companies believe will be a wide range of mortgage products and streamlined underwriting to The Agency’s luxury clients. Dubbed Aclara Lending, the joint venture will start in Southern California with plans to expand in the near future.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The company named veteran mortgage professional Connie Lindsay as its senior vice president of mortgage lending in Washington state. ” Lindsay also expressed excitement over the opportunity to help clients in Washington. Top 10 mortgage lender Rate — previously known as Guaranteed Rate — announced a new promotion on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. That’s not a good experience,” Hydrew said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Connie Lindsay has joined national mortgage lender Rate as senior vice president of mortgage lending. In her new role, she will help Rate further its mission of empowering homeowners with cutting-edge technology and innovative lending solutions. Lindsay has a distinguished career in mortgage banking, most recently with US Bank.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

Candor, a mortgage artificial intelligence firm that has pioneered automated underwriter technology, announced a $12.5 The firm promised to automate much of the underwriting process by making income, asset and lending decisions. Months after launching, Candor had already nabbed several top lenders as clients.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Kahane & Associates team is dedicated to finding innovative ways to assist its clients in significantly reducing the costs of default servicing. The primary goal of the firm is to provide clients with the highest quality legal representation and the finest in personal service in the industry.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mortgage lending titan Rocket Mortgage is bringing its tech straight to financial institutions. It’s a significant lending play, as many of these smaller credit unions and community banks aren’t large enough to run their own mortgage operations. Already the leading originator in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Appraisal technology company Accurate Group announced this week that it has acquired Voxtur Appraisal Services , an appraisal management company (AMC). We are excited to welcome Voxtur Appraisal Services’ seasoned team of professionals and Voxtur clients,” said Paul Doman , president and CEO of Accurate Group. “We

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