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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Verifications provider Argyle announced an integration with the Exchange, an interconnected network of mortgage-specific service providers available to customers of the Empower loan origination system (LOS) from Dark Matter Technologies. The mortgage tech company has made a series of integrations with lenders in the past few months.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Technology plays a crucial role in servicers’ ability of servicers to support their borrowers in this challenging time. And servicers using Sagent’s LoanServ haven’t missed a beat tracking all borrower and investor obligations and payment processing — even if payments aren’t actually received from borrowers in forbearance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AI and data-led fintech company Pagaya Technologies named Sanjiv Das as president. He has also held senior roles at Morgan Stanley , American Express and Bank of America. Das, a former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , will begin his new role on Oct. The executive replaces Ashok Vaswani, who served as Pagaya’s president since June 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

“With advanced technology , a broad product lineup, and a commitment to broker success, Cardinal Financial Wholesale provides the tools brokers need to excel.” Cardinal Financial is also offering real estate investor financing with its Foreign Debt Service Coverage Ratio ( DSCR ) and Investor Solutions DSCR products.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Multi-year HousingWire Tech100 winner Built Technologies , a construction finance software and construction payment technology company, closed an $88 million Series C funding round. The Series C was led by Addition , venture capitalist and investor Lee Fixel’s new fund. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Patricia Suazo has joined FundingShield as its vice president of technology operations and integrations. Suazo has over 15 years of leadership experience in the mortgage lending space with firms including Stearns Lending , Bank of America , Carrington Holding Company and CloudVirga.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies rolled out a wholesale lending platform that will give loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering. Cagney’s attempt to bring blockchain technology to mortgage lending at scale dates back to August 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On Tuesday, executives from the San Francisco, California-headquartered mortgage tech firm, which has yet to post a profit since going public in July 2021, shared the firm’s vision for growth during its first investor day. “[Our goal is ] Having a unified platform that can serve all the products that a bank can offer.

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Finding the 10 best real estate markets for investors is the first step to making that dream a reality. This guide dives deep into ten markets currently showing impressive growth potential for investors, but remember: real estate investment involves risk. High demand translates to higher rental yields, a key factor for investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

PIMCO, founded in 1971, has a long history of aggregating residential mortgage loans as well as managing assets for corporations, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors. And if we can better bank those investors and consumers, it could be just a massive addressable market for the company.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Now in its 13th year, the Tech100 program serves as a trusted resource for housing professionals, providing a definitive list of the industrys top technology providers. These companies are at the forefront of solving the biggest challenges mortgage professionals face every day. Check out the full list of this years honorees below.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Brokers that are equipped with Acra Lendings non-qm products, technology, and team can serve borrowers where traditional lenders simply cannot. How Acra Lending sets itself apart in the non-QM market When describing how Acra Lending sets itself in the non-QM lending space, three words come to mind: people, processes, and technology.

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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. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation. Sarah Wheeler: ICE’s acquisition of Black Knight just closed today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

” The two companies’ technology solutions are already tightly integrated and the relationship between their executives was a bonus to LLR Partners, Ryder said. The post Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang snag new investor appeared first on HousingWire. . “There should be a relationship beyond the transaction.

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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. We’re well-capitalized and committed to mortgage, particularly the broker channel. Our brokers are our partners.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But Brian Hale, who is assisting several buyers in their hunt for independent mortgage bank acquisition targets, sees an even more brutal landscape ahead. Still, consolidation is clearly underway in the mortgage banking industry already. By the time 2022 is wrapped up, mortgage lenders will have originated about $2.2 trillion to $1.7

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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. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mortgage capital markets technology firm Polly has raised $25 million to invest in research and development, product innovation and expansion, the company said on Tuesday. 8VC led the latest equity investment with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures , Meritech , Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Inman

APRIL 2, 2025

Shares in cloud banking solutions provider hit new all-time low after company posts guidance that revenue from the company's main line of business could shrink by as much as 7 percent this year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In April, with the coronavirus pandemic raging across the country, leaders at JPMorgan Chase made the call: the bank was going to significantly tighten mortgage lending standards. Lake did not elaborate, and representatives for the retail bank did not immediately respond to HousingWire’s requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

from what some of the states are doing, to private investors, to the big building developers, to 3D-printed houses. We have a coalition we’re harnessing right now — banks, lenders, insurers, building developers, technology companies — with the goal to reduce that 1.6 There are a lot of amazing things happening in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The mortgage industry has complained loudly and often that government regulation and investor requirements are contributing to spiraling costs that get passed on to consumers. Third, we’re pursuing rules to accelerate the shift to open banking with mortgages in mind.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

UWM’s entrance to the public markets caps a wild six months for independent mortgage banks across America, in which a dozen large or mid-sized mortgage firms revealed plans to go public. The merger injected $925 million into UWM to develop new technology and grow the broker channel, where it holds about 35% marketshare.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

AVMs deploy technology to value the properties used as collateral to secure mortgages. Mortgage lenders and investors must apply random sample testing and reviews to their AVMs, and the models must comply with applicable nondiscrimination laws. Hsu’s priority to reduce inequality and elevate fairness in banking.”

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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. He added: “We have a tremendous amount of proprietary technology being built.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It serves mortgage investors, independent mortgage banks, private lenders, banks and credit unions. Last February , LoanPASS integrated with ICE Mortgage Technology , allowing mutual clients to access LoanPASS’ products and pricing engine (PPE) via ICE Mortgage Technology’s end-to-end digital lending platform, Encompass.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ocrolus , a New York-based startup offering document processing automation for fintechs and banks, announced raising a $80 million Series C led by Fin VC, according to a press release. Founded in 2014 with a focus on automating Medicaid application processes, Ocrolus decided in 2016 to use its technology to classify financial documents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

There is definitely a learning curve with non-QM: the products, the underwriting and documentation requirements (for example, bank statements vs. W-2s for income) are all different. And investor guidelines are continually evolving. Keeping track of which wholesale lender or investor is buying what has been a challenge for originators.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

When you’re dealing with investors, mistakes cannot happen.”. 1 it was underwritten correctly, and two it fits a credit box of an investor that’s willing to buy it,” Lind said. Bank statement loans are growing in popularity as the self-employed population increases each year. What technology is needed?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Other investors included Golden Tree Asset Management , Raptor Group , and FJ Labs. Another 11 existing venture investors, such as White Star Capital and Kingsway Capital , followed on in the round. Regarding the mortgage industry, the acceptance of cryptocurrencies by investors lags the development of new products.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mullen explains that in the 1980s, investment firms focused on securitizing small assets to make them available for institutional investors. He also mentions Pretium’s evolution from targeting single-family rentals to other assets, with a greater focus on technology and operational efficiency to better serve landlords and tenants.

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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 17, 2022

Figure , a blockchain-focused financial service company and Apollo , a global alternative asset manager, announced today completing a transaction involving the origination of digital mortgage loans and transfer of ownership via blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Data and analytics giant Black Knight made moves in the secondary mortgage market again, launching its Mandatory Analytics dashboard that will allow investors to analyze and benchmark their actions on the secondary market. One of the best tools that mandatory investors have at their disposal is access to precise, accurate and timely data.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

According to a recent report by Forbes, over half of all real estate investors are now turning to private lenders. The rise of private lending Private lenders disrupted the monopoly of traditional banks and the private lending market has since seen a remarkable rise, reaching $1.5

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