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‘There will be bank failures,’ Fed chief tells lawmakers

Housing Wire

In remarks made Thursday to the Senate Banking Committee this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects some U.S. banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. There will be bank failures, but not the big banks.”

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Home equity products light up a dark housing market

Housing Wire

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Blend launches housing equity program

Housing Wire

Digital lending and cloud banking startup Blend Labs has launched Blend Impact , a program focused on increasing access and equity in housing and financial services with Blend’s nonprofit partners. Launched in 2012, Blend raised $300 million in January 2021, not long after it introduced a series of consumer banking tools.

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Fintech Maxwell launches POS feature that offers tailored workflows for lenders

Housing Wire

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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Stavvy lands $40 million Series A for aggressive growth

Housing Wire

Notable in light of the current servicing challenges facing the industry, Stavvy’s eClosing technology is designed to facilitate faster borrower communication and closings as servicers work through loan modifications, referrals and forbearance. How modernized servicing creates customers for life. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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CU Direct’s Origence hit with layoffs

Housing Wire

Over the last three years, we have accelerated our investment in the development of account and loan origination software,” said Child. The Irvine, California-based fintech firm offers lending tech products to credit unions, banks and independent mortgage banks. He did not offer specifics on what motivated the layoffs.

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Lenders tread carefully around targeted lending programs

Housing Wire

Last week’s announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development cleared the way for lenders to adopt targeted lending programs, but so far, they are treading carefully. But in the wake of HUD’s announcement, some lenders have, privately, grumbled that there are not sufficient incentives to develop the programs.

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