Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On Wednesdy Citi launched mortgage.com, a new platform that creates a brand-endorsed, consumer-focused channel to leverage Citi’s brand authority and encourage mortgage or refinance applications for the bank. Market share and brand authority Why launch this site now?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Things like AI, well-integrated technology, consumer expectations and the rise of a number of innovative new business models have turned the industry on its head, and for the better in many cases. Did I mention technology has also changed? They need technology that helps them do their unique jobs in optimal fashion.

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Inman

JUNE 8, 2025

As some brands scale back their Pride Month campaigns, others are doubling down on meaningful support. For real estate pros, the opportunity lies in showing up with purpose — and turning values into long-term brand equity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure Lending LLC is now operating under the umbrella of Figure Technology Solutions , independent of CEO Mike Cagney ’s Figure Technologies. Figure Technologies launched a wholesale lending platform in June 2023 that gives loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies announced a collaboration with CMG Financial , CrossCountry Mortgage , Fairway Independent Mortgage and The Loan Store as private-label partners. Each of Figure’s new partners will leverage Figure’s HELOC technology to create a branded product for their customers, the firm said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Building the future of mortgage servicing technology is about granular, nuanced innovation — knowing what changes must happen and when, and executing with no mistakes across scale operations where every tiny detail is highly regulated. and see the same data their customer is seeing.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Massachusetts-based Volly is a provider of marketing, customer engagement strategies and lending technologies for the mortgage industry. The company’s platform also includes a marketing portal for brokers that offers personalized branding and compliance technology.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

The Property Shop joined Real under its Private Label program, which allows independent brokerages to maintain their own brand while reaping the benefits associated with being a part of Real. Ware, who founded The Property Shop in 2009, will serve as a growth leader at Real and help to build visibility for its brand.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

The combined company and branch locations will operate under the NexTier Bank brand, both banks said in a release Thursday. In its mortgage division, the bank offers construction, purchase loans, home equity loans as well as HELOCs in addition to providing consumer loans, wealth management and merchant services. Mars Bank held $520.8

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Name Job Title Company Name Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amy Jo Plummer Vice President of Customer Experience Maxwell Anita Blue President LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Candy Nowak Chief Credit Officer CMG Financial Cecilia Choy Chief Operating Officer ICE Mortgage Technology Cerita Battles Head of Community & Affordable Lending Chase Charis (..)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Mortgage servicing is the last and toughest mile of mortgage industry modernization, and Sagent’s technology, team, and industry expertise make it the best software partner for America’s servicers,” said Marshall. Marshall joined Sagent’s board under the terms of the transaction.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

With underfunded retirement savings vehicles, home equity may prove to be one of the most important financial assets for funding a comfortable retirement. My view is that HECM products will continue to grow in importance as a critical home equity extraction vehicle for our aging population of homeowners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Walker explained that the company name of HighTechLending, which goes back to 2007, emphasized its place as a leader in new technology solutions for mortgage — including paperless files. Walker added that he hopes the reverse mortgage industry at large appreciates the presence of a new brand in the market. What’s in a name?

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

We look forward to this new chapter in our company’s history and to operating under the Onity brand, which reflects the evolution of our culture and the transformation of our company.” “We are very pleased that our shareholders have approved our name change to Onity Group,” Glen Messina, CEO of Ocwen Financial, said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Black Knight, which provides integrated technology, services, data and analytics to the mortgage lending, servicing and real estate industries, has contracts providing its MSP servicing system to companies, such as multi-channel fintech platform Lower and Iowa Bankers Mortgage Corporation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

HW: What types of technology can lenders use to improve the borrower experience? DG: For the past few years, homeowner engagement has been pretty basic — mostly apps focused on home value, home equity and market reports. This is where Milestones fits in. Knowing that loyalty in the mortgage industry (i.e.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The white label tech stack Real’s technology has a 100% adoption rate by all agents, as they must use it in order to receive their commission. Founded in 2014 by CEO Tamir Poleg and chief technology officer Gal Weiss, Real managed to fly mostly under the radar until it went public in 2020. It is a straight white label,” Srivatsaa said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The company has also established capital-partner relationships and has made a series of technological investments into its platforms, he said. Included in the wider rebranding effort will be a refresh of the company’s brand voice, which is designed to support “the company’s commitment to getting the job done,” the announcement stated.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

“We are proud of what we have built – a strong servicing platform with industry-leading cost and operational performance, multi-channel originations and asset management capabilities, and a technology-enabled global platform.” Other major brands under the company’s umbrella — including PHH Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Thanks to our brand investment over time, we are also one of the most recognized brands in the industry today. In its S-1, loanDepot touts its entrepreneurial ethos and its technology platform, called “mello.” billion in marketing and promotion of its brand. All of this gives us enormous runway.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

The transaction is expected to provide up to $645 million in cash proceeds and a fully committed private investment in public equity (PIPE) of $300 million. Doma, founded in 2016, says its patented machine-learning technology reduces title processing time from five days to five minutes. ” Doma saw revenues of $179.8

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Vice President of Technology Services. Nexsys Technologies. Realogy Expansion Brands. Executive, Software Engineering & Technology. VP, Product and Client Services, Secondary Marketing Technologies. Bay Equity Home Loans. Equity Prime Mortgage. Head of Product and Design. Carrie Gusmus.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Using this technology, homeowners, lenders and inspectors don’t have to worry about putting off the inspection process or skipping it altogether. The many applications for financial institutions of this technology include Home Equity Lending to Insurance inspections. Mark Walser, President of Appraisal Management.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. Both firms will maintain their existing brands and teams.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Our primary operating brands, PHH Mortgage and Liberty Reverse Mortgage, will retain their names at this time. We’re excited about this new chapter for the company and we look forward to operating under the Onity brand.” We expect to rebrand PHH and Liberty to Onity Mortgage later this year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Tens of thousands of workers were hired, new technologies were piloted and operational processes implemented to capitalize on what was a historic moment for the industry. However, they are hampered by comparatively poor technology and the slow speed at which they can close a loan, analysts said. Origination volumes eclipsed $4.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

” During the call, Hsieh spoke to the brand awareness effort the lender has embarked on. The decline in profit during the first quarter came partly as a result of the lender’s IPO, which resulted in $59 million in stock grants to its private equity backers and leadership.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With 2020 finally coming to a close, several companies wrapped up this unprecedented year for housing with some brand-new mortgage tech for 2021. After a historic year for refinancing, Evolve Mortgage announced it acquired the appraisal assets of Veptas Technology Solutions from Veptas Holdings to offset its severe shortage of underwriters.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Chris Moschner Working for P&G gave Moschner access to marketing assignments for a lot of international and domestic brands, which offered a baseline of classic marketing principles he would take further into his career. And then I found my way over to another life insurer called Protected Life , where I was the chief marketing officer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

“We went through a massive pivot last year, and we are solely focused today on really helping the modern retiree reimagine what their retirement years could look like through the power of their home equity,” Sieffert said. “We Even in technology, the things that we would need to invest in to catch up to those peers [presented a challenge].

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

During the half-hour discussion, the panelists offered their takes on capital market appetite by channel, touching on the rise of the nonbank, regulatory challenges, IPOs, adaptation and technology, the upcoming adverse-market fee, MSR value and even the forbearance timelines. ” The banking tech laggard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Technology and the trust model Real estate is too vital to our economy to be so financially concentrated and functionally outdated. Technology hasn’t been the barrier since 1998 when Equifax, and later other firms, developed systems to secure complex, multi-party transactions over the Internet.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

trillion mortgage servicing sector shouldn’t be “disrupted” by financial technology, it should be reimagined with fintech. Customer expectations have evolved, but old processes have been dragged along within legacy technologies. These needs must be met with, or without, modernized technology. America’s $13.3

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Our growth into this new region is a significant milestone for our company and comes as we look forward to further expansions of the company’s brand in 2021. After last year’s record-breaking year , it comes as no surprise that title companies are looking to expand, with technology adoption also surging.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Jennifer McGuinness CEO Pivot Financial Jennifer Battista President of Operations and Insurance, Title – Settlement Services Anywhere Integrated Services Jennifer Vallinayagam Chief Operating Officer Sun West Mortgage Company Jennifer Lind Regional President, West Coldwell Banker Realty Jessica Sturm Executive Vice President Opteon Jillian White (..)

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