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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The rise of private lending Private lenders disrupted the monopoly of traditional banks and the private lending market has since seen a remarkable rise, reaching $1.5 With the rise of private lending comes an increase in competition, from new and traditional lenders.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool on Tuesday that allows its client experience teams to analyze sentiment, record behavior patterns, transcribe conversations and create tailored experiences during customer interactions. The lender estimates it will save tens of thousands of hours annually.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

With the recent downturn in volume of new originations, many lenders are using this time to take inventory of the available tools geared toward risk mitigation and workflow optimization. We have also seen large multi-channel lenders reducing their risk footprint in wholesale and correspondent lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Blue Sage: Digital Lending Platform Our Digital Lending Platform is a multi-channel, end-to-end digital mortgage solution that provides a superior experience for lenders and customers. 3 Simple and easy to use configuration change management tools enabling clients to quickly add, update, and modify the overall behavior of the platform.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Additionally, specialized tools enable appraisers to submit their findings directly from the field using mobile devices. This efficiency translates to cost savings and improved operational workflows for lending institutions. Better risk management : Accurate and reliable appraisals are crucial for effective risk management in lending.

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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

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

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 tool can be paired up with other types of valuation metrics. The real competition for us is the status quo,” added Begley.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Andy Crisenbery : COVID-19 has had a profound effect on almost all business lines in the real estate and lending markets. HW: Where are you finding opportunity to meet client needs and grow relationships? HW: Where would you advise clients focus their technology resources as we prepare for 2021?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The lending industry is notorious for its poor customer retention – in fact, only 1 in 5 borrowers return to their original lender for a subsequent loan. Without the right tools to beat these odds, lenders have had little choice but to pour dollars and resources into new customer acquisition instead.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool. UWM’s technology and resources are driven by the needs of the broker community and are aimed at making the lending process faster, easier and cheaper for borrowers.

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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 partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Their overarching goal is to help grow happiness — for customers, for clients and for their staff. 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. Maintaining a healthy culture has long been central to TMS’s mission.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2025

Mortgage and title clients are undergoing a significant transformation with the shift from Encompass Software Development Kit (SDK) to Encompass Partner Connect (EPC). GridBase is a proven leader in title and lending technology, offering a seamless, coding-free solution that simplifies migration while enhancing operational workflows.

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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 C2 has the support and allows more options for my clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

He stresses the importance of optimizing recapture workflows in the new market with new tools and strategies. Following that, Kennedy introduces RiskSpan’s unique strategies and tools. How do your reports or tools bridge the gap between originators and MSR data, ensuring they understand and act on recapture opportunities?

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Freddie Mac’s study is based on financial information from 203 lending institutions. In partnership with Ipsos Public Affairs , the enterprise also conducted 13 virtual interviews with representatives at lending institutions, as well as an online survey with 500 loan officers, originators and underwriters in November and December 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

DS: How does Optimal Blue enable your lending clients to prevent margin compression? There’s ways you can do that and put that in the hands of the originator. Give them more control. Allow them to set up specific rate alerts for the customers that they serve. EW: Understanding your margins is more important than ever.

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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

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

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

AUGUST 28, 2024

Digital closing provider Snapdocs has automated its digital closing revenue management system to help the firm create a faster and more transparent process for clients. The collaboration in May was aimed at enabling warehouse lenders to seamlessly and securely manage eNote transactions within their warehouse lending system of record.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As the mortgage industry continues to evolve at breakneck speed, risk management has never been a more critical lynchpin in the lending ecosystem. This experience, coupled with their use of proprietary and industry-leading technology solutions, has allowed MCRS to effectively serve a wide range of clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a high(er) rate environment, non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending continues to play an increasingly pivotal role. To explore how Acra Lending has adapted to these shifts, we sat down with Ryan Barrus, a key player in the company’s non-QM division. HW: Acra Lending recently launched its Glide portal. RB: Absolutely.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. DB: Warehouse lending has evolved beyond traditional boundaries.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And nothing builds customer loyalty like giving your borrowers immediate, easy self-serve tools to get hardship help. The post What role does the servicer play in creating clients for life? To learn how Sagent is doing this for our customers, visit Sagent.com or email me directly at uday.devalla@sagentlending.com.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What sets ICE apart is how they’ve united different tools into a single platform. 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.” This proactive approach helps clients avoid costly mistakes and audits.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Following other recent moves from the government-sponsored enterprises to the private sector, former Fannie Mae Head of Digital Products Henry Cason announced his move to FinLocker , a consumer-permissioned personal financial assistance tool. FinLocker CEO Henry Cason. Presented by: WFG.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Braheem, former co-founder of Loan Toolbox — an online resource for training, tools, support and coaching — launched The Loan Atlas, a mortgage coaching platform, earlier this year with mortgage executives and top loan officers joining as faculty members. So, kind of like a turnkey kit to get in front of a one-to-many type situation.”

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

Record-breaking lending volumes led many lenders to tighten up their processes across every stage of the mortgage cycle. The tool offers a comprehensive response to tax amounts for properties within the United States. By integrating PTE, Plaza has, in turn, accomplished two vital goals: Faster turn times and happier clients.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

billion valuation, CEO Mat Ishbia today unveiled a new tech tool that he claims will bring “game-changing flexibility” to brokers. The app will enable brokers to instantly lock or extend loans; submit, review and track changes of circumstances; upload and review cleared conditions/invoices; and create and manage client requests.

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