Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. Sarah Wheeler: ICE’s acquisition of Black Knight just closed today. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation.

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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. The mortgage technology division at ICE posted $249 million in total revenue in the fourth quarter, down 9.8%

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. The layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The lender announced Friday a partnership with Salesforce to deliver Rocket’s mortgage origination capabilities directly to banks, credit unions and other FIs through Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. ” There are nearly 5,000 FDIC-insured banks and more than 5,000 credit unions in the U.S. .

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 28, 2024

The banking sector is often seen as a barometer for the broader economy , and the closure of a bank can send ripples through the financial community. In 2024 , the United States witnessed its first bank failure of the year with the closure of Republic First Bank.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

We interviewed more than 25 mortgage industry experts to gather the best insights, strategies, and recommendations to pivot and win in today’s market. Trust Index has declined 10 points since 2017, and the majority of Americans do not trust the central bank. Innovations in technology. Their research shows the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

HousingWire recently sat down with Joe Hallett, Fannie Mae’s Vice President – Digital Products Management, to discuss how Fannie Mae is leveraging technology to expand access to homeownership. HW: Where do you think we are as an industry in the digital mortgage journey?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

The most wonderful time of the year, as the song would have us believe, comes to a close with Epiphany, the 12 th day of Christmas, Jan. So is the 24-month refinance market, the biggest of its kind in all of mortgage banking history. Think technology and service providers, too — a smaller mortgage market affects everyone.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’ve experienced the important role technology can play in helping homeowners access the tools and solutions their mortgage servicer is offering. We’re using] our technology to help homeowners and servicers alike facilitate more convenient and more equitable access to loan products and closings.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

“We couldn’t be more excited about this game-changing technology that Proof is bringing to its platform,“ Aaron Davis, the CEO of Florida Agency Network , the state’s largest independent title agency , said in a statement. Real estate fraud threatens the integrity of our industry.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Flagstar Bank and the FinTech Consortium revealed that fintech startups Home Lending Pal , Stavvy and Real Key are the latest initiates to the companies’ ongoing MortgageTech Accelerator program. Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability. Presented by: Total Expert.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the real estate industry has witnessed the introduction of a number of spectacular and innovative developments in recent years, we still (sometimes unfairly) get tagged as “old fashioned” or “conservative.” Why is the industry still transferring money the old-fashioned way? There’s really no experience quite like buying a home.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

In response, many brokers are relying on extra support, and Flagstar Bank offers exactly that. We have a broad product set, competitive pricing and great technology,” said Lee Smith, EVP and president of mortgage. Our brokers are our partners. We treat them like family and want to help them grow their businesses and be successful.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

In the case of the real estate company, a spoofed email that purported to be from a real estate agent at the company directed a closing attorney to wire $154,000 in home-purchase funds to a bank account controlled by the fraudsters. The illicit proceeds from the closing-fund thefts were then quickly moved from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

It’s supported by Varun Krishna , a veteran in the financial technology world and former executive at Intuit and PayPal , who was appointed as the company’s new CEO in July 2023, replacing Bob Walters. The lender says the technology allows the company to close loans 2.5 times faster than the industry average. “By

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

For decades, the housing industry has viewed climate risk as a fairly straightforward issue. However, the ramifications of climate risk are now being felt throughout the broader industry, especially as a larger and larger percentage of this damage comes in the form of uninsured losses. You build the home to code.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sagent , a fintech software company providing a servicing management platform for banks and lenders, appointed Chris Marshall as executive chairman. Sagent’s appointment of Marshall comes amid the company’s goals to deliver the mortgage servicing industry’s first cloud-native software platform this year. Cooper Group.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

Snapdocs , a leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry, has announced a new integration with Finastra ‘s Mortgagebot loan origination system (LOS) to support Trustmark ‘s eClose transformation. The result is a more efficient and transparent experience for all parties involved in the closing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But before diving back in headfirst, it would be worthwhile for lenders to think through what the last two years of scarcity reveal about the normal working model of an independent mortgage bank (IMB). You can learn a lot about any industry by asking its top earners what energizes them toward peak performance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

nonbank mortgage lenders continue to gain market share as the industry consolidates and a number of smaller players exit the space due to a lack of strong franchises to retain sufficient volume, Fitch Ratings reported Tuesday. Last year, Homepoint shut down operations, while Wells Fargo closed its correspondent lending business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Williston Financial Group is closing out 2023 with yet another acquisition. The firm announced Thursday that MyHome , a WFG subsidiary, has acquired technology and marketing services provider Volly. Launched in 2004, 10 of the nation’s top 30 banks work with Volly. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

This bidirectional integration, available to financial institutions, including independent mortgage banks nationwide, enables real-time sharing of loan application data, milestone updates, and documents. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the SimpleNexus team and supporting their continued growth and success in the industry.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Homeownership is used far too often as the federal piggy bank. On a related matter, we also see some in the mortgage industry touting business opportunities of dual compensation – firms or loan originators representing a homebuyer simultaneously as realty agent and home lender. But now a new threat is emerging on this front.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Real estate technology has changed rapidly over the last few years, and property valuation is no exception. Efficient data collection with aggregation and next-generation market analytics can drastically impact the closing process. Today, borrowers and lenders alike expect an easy and expedited home loan experience.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Despite advances in technology, the mortgage industry still lacks efficiency. Mortgage executives are aware of a problem: despite billions of dollars in technology investments , the mortgage industry still largely looks like it did two decades ago. After all, it still takes 43 days, on average, to close a loan.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. We are adding resources to engineering, security and trust, product, industry relations, legal, compliance and more. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

HousingWire sat down with Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind to discuss effective ways to not only survive, but profit in the non-QM space while so many others are closing their doors. Lind also shares insights into the future of non-QM lending and the importance of emergent technologies in improving the origination process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Now in its 12th year, the Tech100 program provides housing professionals with a comprehensive list of the most innovative and impactful organizations in the industry. The list can be leveraged to identify partners and solutions to the challenges that mortgage lenders and real estate professionals face every day.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

ACES Quality Management , a fintech that provides quality-control software for the financial services industry, issued a Mortgage QC Industry Trends report with data through Q3 2023. The overarching goal of prefunding QC is to ward off problems before they become issues on closed loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

This integration aims to deliver an enhanced customer experience for mortgage borrowers while streamlining the closing process. “This collaboration not only saves time and effort but also amplifies secondary market potential, eliminates laborious manual tasks, slashes cost per loan, and streamlines the closing process.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maxwell , a Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech, announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire the digital lending platform Revvin ( formerly known as MortgageHippo ) to enhance its point-of-sale technology. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The trough for the mortgage origination market is nearing an end point and 2024 is shaping up to be a better year for the industry, economists of the the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said at the 2023 Annual Convention & Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In terms of units, the MBA expects about 5.2 and reach 5.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

” Though details about the hack — which has delayed closings across the country — remain sparse, a filing was made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for the first time disclosing data theft. “As of the date of this filing, the Company believes it has contained the incident. .”

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

The fintech firm currently provides underwriting workflow automation technology, point-of-sale software, and data services for the U.S. Its customers include more than 400 banks and credit unions. This is FirstClose’s first institutional equity investment round: The company has been self-funded since its founding in 2000.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Starting strong is less important for a deal that takes a long time to close. This was a crisis for many large Independent mortgage banks that had created fine-tuned systems for refinancing loans and had virtually no trained sales force to prospect for new purchase money business. Two things I will say about technology.

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