Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

To ensure the safety of your digital assets and sensitive information, it’s important to make sure all users are well-informed about cybersecurity and receive periodic training. To reduce risks , we’ll explore why empowering your team through education and training is essential to mitigate risks and keep your business secure.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the mortgage rate environment became increasingly volatile in August and early September, one in three title insurers reported order volume that was below or far below average. One of the things that we are currently working on is a new consumer facing website that is focused solely on bringing talent into the title insurance field.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The new interface is poised to streamline workflows, enhance efficiencies and simplify the training process for servicing team members. Mortgage escrow is inherently complex, and the technology lift to handle the many moving parts is significant,” Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Tim Bowler, the president of ICE Mortgage Technology , appreciates a good analogy. Treasury official says that the mortgage technology giant’s integration of Black Knight isn’t dissimilar to building a rail line. But MSP, the flagship servicing technology engine acquired in the $12 billion Black Knight deal, runs on 2.01-meter

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The title insurance industry generated $6.8 billion in title insurance premiums in Q3, marking the industry’s best quarter ever. HousingWire: What aspects of the title process can most benefit from technology? Nominations for HousingWire’s Tech100 award are now open through Friday, December 17, 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 8, 2025

Recognizing the most innovative technology providers in the mortgage industry, MortgagePoints Tech Excellence Awards highlight the companies that have developed cutting-edge solutions, improved operational efficiencies, and have enhanced the mortgage process through technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As part of a larger global company offering a wide range of end-to-end solutions, we provide integrated products and technology far beyond full-service mortgage fulfillment. Plus, we offer appraisals and field services through other Altisource’s lines of business, including insurance through CastleLine.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Real estate technology company Doma Holdings, Inc. Doma, which uses machine intelligence and proprietary technology solutions, partners with service providers through the AgentMarketplace program. Doma Academy also provides resources like webinars and training to prevent wire fraud. Title and closing firms use paymints.io

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, it is crucial to understand and effectively manage cybersecurity risks in order to safeguard your title insurance or real estate business. Regular training sessions and awareness programs can empower employees to recognize and respond to threats effectively.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Bettina Arthur has been promoted to vice president of sales enablement at Westcor Land Title Insurance Company. Arthur joined Westcor in 2011 and served as director of training prior to this new role. Arthur joined Westcor in 2011 and served as director of training prior to this new role.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

While this was once a necessary business strategy, the technology now exists to implement a much more efficient approach. The technology to do this is possible and in many cases, has even been built – it just hasn’t been properly implemented. We have the means today to shift lenders to far more efficient staffing and personnel models.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The pandemic has brought to the surface the glaring inefficiencies – limited trained staff, multiple claims systems, inefficient manual processes – and (unnecessary) financial costs that have plagued the claims servicing process for decades. Servicers are taking a harder look at technology to reinvent the way they process claims.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Little is a customer-centric visionary, with a background in operations, training, business development and management across nearly all channels of the mortgage services industry. He has been a part of the Fidelity National Financial (FNF) family of companies for nearly 10 years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For the past several years, the FBI says BEC has consistently been the largest dollar loss by victims’ crime typology reported to the IC3, as “criminals have been refining their exploitation of technology, especially the internet, to carry out financial crimes.” According to a Q3 analysis by FundingShield, 47.9% Presented by: FundingShield.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Vice President of Technology Services. Nexsys Technologies. VP, Sales Training. Mortgage Insurers. Westcor Land Title Insurance Company. WFG National Title Insurance Company. Enact Mortgage Insurance. Executive, Software Engineering & Technology. Enact Mortgage Insurance. Linda Case.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile, homeowners insurance is increasingly becoming a bigger issue for consumers and servicers. In California, Texas and Louisiana, as well as portions of other states that are at risk for natural disasters , just getting homeowners insurance is getting more difficult as large insurers stop writing coverage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Director of Product, Origination Technologies. Enact Mortgage Insurance. VP, Technology. EVP, Training and Operational Support. ICE Mortgage Technology. Chelsea Goyer. National Head of Brokerage. Senior Director of Strategic Growth and Acquisitions. OriginPoint. Craig Rebmann. Black Knight. Dave Herbst. Jory Beech.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Do loan officers need more technology than they currently have? Will new technology change anything? They do not need more technology. The tech we have that isn’t used isn’t about training or talent but the parts that are optional are not used. So, my question was, does the LO need more technology than they have now?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Payload, a fintech company focusing on automated payments with API architecture, on Tuesday announced a partnership with technology services provider Premier Data Services , to launch an integration with SoftPro, an escrow and closing software. To boot, check fraud is also on the rise.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Graduates of the program commonly find job placements with lenders, technology companies, fintech and proptech firms, or title companies. Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. But some are completely fresh to the field.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As existing-home sales continue to slide and mortgage rates rise ever higher, all but eliminating any hope for refinance transactions, the title insurance industry is doubling down on technology. At the same time, firms overlook the cultural impact the technologies could have, causing us to underestimate their impact on society.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

When we started, the idea was to obtain exterior photos as fast as possible, at a time when Uber, Lyft and marketing technology was advancing, and anyone with a smartphone could get exterior photos,” said Tomaszewski, who worked to turn his idea into ProxyPics. The State of Appraisals in 2022. Presented by: Reggora.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Technology equals efficiency. A lot of lenders haven’t spent much money on technology for home equity processes. They’re still using legacy in-house technology for their loan origination system and their processes simply aren’t efficient. They include automated title, digital signing solutions and eClosing offerings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It’s scary out there,” a technology leader at a top lender said anonymously, adding that there were recent cyberattack attempts at his company. Training their workforce is also crucial, they said. Valverde said the problem affects homeowners, investors and insurance companies, and Ginnie Mae is “a bridge for all those counterparties.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Well-trained staff using the right mortgage servicing software can service 700 or more loans per employee. Late fees and commissions on optional insurance can also increase revenue. In addition to benefiting customers, in-house servicing generates significant revenue.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

It’s significantly impacting the title insurance industry now and will only become more prominent as the boomer workforce continues with retirement plans. The solution to these rising threats — as is the case with most cyber-defense strategies, is proactive planning, oversight, and training. Financial and operational headaches.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a refresher, “redlining” means that no matter the features or amenities that a home provides, if the home is in a neighborhood with Black residents (homeowners or renters), traditional (and more affordable) lending and insurance would be denied — although a few sub-prime options tend to circle these communities like sharks.

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GoForrmz

JUNE 3, 2022

Join the ‘Work to Zero’ movement with safety-enhancing technologies in your workplace Often reserved for thoughts of the Industrial Revolution, the idea that death in the workplace is still a threat today seems unimaginable. ” — The Center for Construction Research and Training (2019). In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

The title insurance industry is on the front lines in a never-ending war with the fraudsters. When I first got into the business we were still doing closing statements with that running tabulators and calculators and throughout the years technology has improved so many things but with that technology come threats.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

CM : Firstly, reverse mortgages, whether government-insured or proprietary, are non-recourse loans. Furthermore, we provide our partners with user-friendly technology to streamline their work and expedite loans and do-it-yourself marketing collateral that they use to market to prospective borrowers effectively. Not tax advice.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I have been following efforts to address that scarcity, including through technology and through recruitment and training efforts (particularly in connection with diverse appraisers). The lack of available appraisers, particularly in certain locations and in connection with certain loan programs is a persistent obstacle.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

The brilliant sunshine outside the Miami Beach Convention Center was matched by summit attendees who effused that crypto assets and blockchain technology will enter into residential real estate and benefit agents, investors, and tech wheelers-and-dealers alike. A third person approached and said, “We should talk.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What it means is there is a higher percentage of potential fraud per file,” Elizabeth Berg, the vice president for education and training at FNF Family of Companies , told attendees of the American Land Title Association’s ALTA One conference on Thursday. Fewer homebuying transactions means less fraud , right? “No! It is brute force.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, it still appears that lenders are focusing their technology investments on the point of sale. A 2020 ICE Mortgage Technology survey confirmed this, reporting that 58% of borrowers were affected in their decision making by the presence (or lack thereof) of an online application. This comes as no surprise.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

While the pandemic thrust RON into the mainstream of the industry, many are still wondering how the technology can benefit them and the closing process going forward. The process includes a notary and a document signer using secure audiovisual and digital signing technology to finalize any financial document.

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