Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Sandra Madigan, EVP of product strategy – servicing technology at ICE Mortgage Technology , about improving the home buying and ownership experience with technology and how the industry can do so thoughtfully. What do you think the disconnect is there, and do you see this changing in the future?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Informative Research has announced a new integration with ICE Mortgage Technology that allows loan officers seamlessly pull credit and verify income, assets and employment (VOA & VOE/I) directly from their mobile devices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. With the advances we’re seeing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation, we have become experts at configuring our technology to meet the changing needs of lenders.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

To get a better understanding of how this arrangement plays into the ambitions of both the lender and tech provider, HousingWire spoke with Andrew Badstubner, chief information officer at First Community Mortgage, and David Aach, chief operating officer of Blue Sage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“From loan officers to secondary marketing teams and investors, we empower mortgage professionals with tools designed to maximize their profitability on every loan transaction.” ” The announcements were made at MBA Annual in Denver.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

From there, the Digital Loan Product Wizard lets borrowers select several HELOC and home equity products to evaluate through several third-party institutions—including Evolve Mortgage Services and American First Credit Union.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

The tool is designed to address the issue of sensitive data being handled by lenders and loan officers on a daily basis, including social security numbers, paystubs, and tax returns. According to Maxwell, the company’s suite of tools have resulted in a 20% increase in loans closed per loan officer.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

“At Optimal Blue, we are setting an even higher bar for mortgage technology innovation by investing in advanced technologies that deliver value-based, first-of-their-kind features at no additional cost,” says Joe Tyrrell, CEO of Optimal Blue, in a release.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Guideline Buddy’s chatbot leverages generative AI technology to simplify the loan qualification process by providing swift and accurate information, freeing professionals from the time-consuming burden of sifting through extensive documentation, the firm said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Borrower Digital is Black Knight’s point-of-sale (POS) solution that is built using responsive-design to be used easily from any web-enabled device. Borrower Digital is further enhanced with Black Knight’s companion solution Loan Officer Digital. Rich Gagliano, President, Origination Technologies.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Mortgage capital markets tech firm Polly announced on Tuesday that it has launched “Polly/AI,” which integrates artificial intelligence (AI) technology into the newest version of its product and pricing engine (PPE) and includes a “co-pilot” for loan officers that will “process, interpret, and recommend a range of outcome-driven results.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Polly’s product and pricing engine (PPE), designed with an API-adjacent product strategy, looks to improve lender efficiencies by facilitating optimal system-to-system integration. Polly’s API integration with nCino is part of the fintech’s long-term strategy to provide innovation for lenders. mortgage, said in a statement. “By

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The digital lender made changes in its commercial operating model to achieve this goal and will continue to invest in Tinman, its proprietary technology platform. The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans. Better posted a GAAP net loss of $59.5

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sogorka will ensure the lender’s products and processes align best with the needs of the mortgage broker community and plans to leverage Rocket Mortgage’s significant AI technologies and platform to push well beyond the tools currently available to this important market segment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lenders have come to appreciate the benefits technology can bring – but those benefits are only useful if the implementation of new tools doesn’t make the loan process more complicated. Borrower Digital was designed based on specific borrower personas and scenarios.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Mortgage data provider Optimal Blue this week announced the launch of Competitive Data License, a product that is designed to help lenders price loans accurately and drive profitability. ” The data license product allows lenders to see which loan locks were completed using the dataset and which loan officers locked the loan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

While there will always be a need for the next innovative idea that keeps housing finance moving forward, our industry’s real problem is not an inability to devise technological advances that save lenders and consumers money—it’s our inability to adopt and execute at scale. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Solutions within Floify Lender Edition allow lenders to improve recruitment and retention of top-producing loan officers and to navigate regulatory landscapes, according to the company’s website. Floify Lender Edition is a counterpart to Broker Edition , which was rolled out in December.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In its announcement, the company explained that Rate Intelligence has been working behind the scenes for the past two years to help originate billions of dollars in loans. Through employee feedback and work with its technology partners, Rate has optimized the platform and is ready for a broader marketing push to consumers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Today’s focus is on cultural fit, innovative talent compensation strategies, and leveraging technology to stabilize workforce needs through economic cycles. loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In reality, the LOS is not the problem; the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Adjust your expectations At its core, an LOS is designed to serve a very specific purpose: ensuring that lenders can originate compliant and sellable loans. The LOS is a foundational piece of technology for every lender.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Its “ smart loans ,” which were built using artificial intelligence technology, are designed to help homebuyers find the best mortgage for their unique financial situation. In May 2022, it launched a cloud-based portal, LoanFlow , that gives mortgage brokers and loan officers the ability to originate loans anytime, anywhere.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Brimma Tech , specializing in AI-driven solutions for the mortgage industry, has released the latest version of Vallia AUS Sandbox, a tool designed to streamline the mortgage underwriting process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

With two decades of marketing experience both on the agency and the brand side, as well as a personal passion for rehabbing homes, Wooden’s know-how, grit, and fresh perspective has continued to propel the Anywhere portfolio of well-known and well-loved brands forward in an ever-evolving technological landscape.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By deploying customer intelligence from Total Expert — a customer engagement platform for financial institutions — Mountain West Financial will provide automated alerts that notify its loan officers in real-time when a customer’s behavior or financial situation signals they’re a good candidate for a home loan, Total Expert said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? Examiners such as the CFPB and FDIC provide stringent oversight of digital activity, and mistakes can cost you and your loan officers dearly. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 23, 2024

is now using LenderLogix LiteSpeed point-of sale system, which is designed to work with the Encompass loan origination system. LiteSpeed’s integration with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology enhances U.S. Mortgage Corp. Once we saw the functionality of LiteSpeed, we couldn’t look at our borrower journey the same.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

How does that experience inform the way you think about technology now? Part of the role that I was fortunate enough to have was managing vendor relationships, so I’ve been on the technology side of the mortgage business the entire time. We’ve always owned our own loan application — it’s something we’ve built.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The portal is designed to offer GHMC partners a “unique borrower online application experience” at no additional costs. Innovative technology is imperative to the mortgage industry with more and more applicants taking advantage of online options offered by lenders,” GHMC president and CEO Chip Adkins said in a prepared statement.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“Our philosophy is to find the best mortgage product for each customer, so it made sense to apply this same philosophy to our technology,” says Chris Murphy, founder and principal at M2 Lending, in a release. “We LenderLogix was founded with the goal to create digital tools that make a real, measurable impact by addressing these areas.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Software development company Blue Sage Solutions has launched a new servicing platform that merges loan origination and servicing functions using API-based technology. Additionally, the platform is accessible to all users, regardless of their current loan origination software.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2024

Financial technology provider TidalWave reports that its purposely built AI copilot engine SOLO is now integrated with Loan Product Advisor (LPA), Freddie Mac ‘s automated underwriting system (AUS). TidalWave’s integration to LPA highlights their agility and capabilities.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

Flueid , a leading technology company specializing in real estate transactions, announced on Thursday the integration of its patented Flueid Decision platform with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology. Flueid Decision also offers a product designed specifically for title providers to digitize and automate title search best practices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It is also turning Acra’s business into a technology-first one, the statement said. It was designed to seamlessly integrate with existing lender systems, including CRMs, Point-of-Sales, LOS, and document management systems. “We This partnership marks a milestone in Tavant’s expansion into non-QM lending.

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