Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule that lays the groundwork for open banking in the U.S. financial system, including the mortgage sector. Today’s action will give people more power to get better rates and service on bank accounts, credit cards, and more.” The move brings the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Dallas-based mortgage servicing software provider OrangeGrid announced on Thursday that Flagstar Bank has implemented its mortgage servicing software to “manage its loss mitigation processes and enhance internal efficiencies.” billion last December. It added $25.8 billion to NYCB’s assets and $17.2

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

NexTier , the holding company of NexTier Bank , will acquire Mars Bancorp , the holding company of Mars Bank. The combined company and branch locations will operate under the NexTier Bank brand, both banks said in a release Thursday. With the acquisition, NexTier Bank will have total assets in excess of $2.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Mortgage brokers ’ compensation is in the spotlight after a recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) test concluded that some financial institutions failed to prove that payments were “reasonably related” to the value of services provided. There are some caveats related to counseling services, referrals, and duplicative work.)

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This week, Mortgage Cadence announced that it had appointed longtime reverse mortgage industry professional George Morales to serve on its sales team. The company is aiming to bring more reverse mortgage technology solutions to potential partners already in the industry and those that have yet to enter it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A future glimpse into how mortgages will be created in 2035 can be found in an woodsy office park in Athens, Georgia. The company offers a product called Passport, which analyzes financial data provided by customers, such as banking history and recurring payments, to assess their ability to repay a loan. was only finalized this week.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. 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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of mortgage banking, executives face the critical challenge of leading their teams through turbulent times. The narrative gap Mortgage banking executives are tasked with bridging a significant narrative gap.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

First Federal Bank will acquire the mortgage division of BNC National Bank , which will give the Florida-headquartered community-based bank a nationwide consumer direct mortgage platform. The purchase, which includes the bank’s consumer-direct technology platform, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These current mortgage markets are what make it challenging for independent mortgage banks (IMBs). For many of these transaction-oriented, monoline mortgage lenders, it’s always a question of feast or famine. This left a void in the mortgage lending market, which was filled by IMBs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Ally Home , the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank , is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday. The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses related to the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mike Cagney’s financial technology firm Figure Technologies has taken another step to go public with its lending division, LendCo , hiring investment banks to coordinate the initial public offering (IPO), per a Bloomberg report. Figure and the banks declined to comment. JP Morgan Chase & Co. for the IPO.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

Customer engagement platform Total Expert is launching a marketplace this week for financial institutions to build their marketing technology stack. Customers, including banks, lenders and insurance companies, will have access to data and action systems under “one roof.” That is not our model,” Welu said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Executives at Swiss bank UBS said on Wednesday that they’ve struck a deal to sell Credit Suisse ’s U.S. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. primary mortgage servicer at the end of June, handling $166.7 According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Writing about digital mortgage in 2021, I am reminded of a cartoon in the New Yorker, in which two cavemen were starting a fire and one said “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented.’” I can set filters for my partner search on Bumble, so why can’t I filter results for a mortgage broker? 3 Self-driving banks. 1 Personalization.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By the time 2022 is wrapped up, mortgage lenders will have originated about $2.2 But Brian Hale, who is assisting several buyers in their hunt for independent mortgage bank acquisition targets, sees an even more brutal landscape ahead. Who wants to be in the mortgage business? trillion to $1.7 trillion. trillion to $1.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage. 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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. Western Alliance Bank transformed this model over a decade ago.

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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 31, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Sandra Madigan, EVP of product strategy – servicing technology at ICE Mortgage Technology , about improving the home buying and ownership experience with technology and how the industry can do so thoughtfully. I compare it to how people felt before the iPhone came out.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Adam Carmel , founder and CEO at Polly , to talk about the ways technology should be delivering ROI for lenders. Sarah Wheeler: The cost to originate a mortgage is higher than ever, while companies have invested more in technology than ever before.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Mortgage capital markets tech firm Polly announced on Monday its API integration with cloud banking provider nCino to enhance the digital mortgage process for lenders. In August 2022, Polly announced an extension of its API portfolio to better accommodate lenders amid a contracting mortgage environment.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Virginia -based Atlantic Coast Mortgage announced this week that residential and wholesale banking software company CRMNow ’s mortgage-oriented customer relationship management ( CRM ) product, Nextwave CRM , will be used by its loan originators across the 30 states it operates in.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

The PROGRESS in Lending Association released the names for its 2024 Innovations Award winners last week, including two vendors that are active in the reverse mortgage industry, according to an announcement. Also recognized by the PROGRESS in Lending Association was Mortgage Cadence , which was lauded for its technology innovation.

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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. And it has more than doubled its customer partner base to include some of the country’s biggest banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dark Matter Technologies (DMT) tapped Tony Fox, former director of ICE Mortgage Technology , as its new chief of client engagement. Fox was director of client management at I CE Mortgage Technology for four months after the firm acquired Black Knight in September 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Mortgage subservicer Dovenmuehle Mortgage announced two promotions within its business development team this week. Krogh joined Dovenmuehle in 2022 from Associated Bank in Chicago. Krogh joined Dovenmuehle in 2022 from Associated Bank in Chicago.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra for a podcast this week and the talk turned to technology and tech companies. Sarah Wheeler: Let’s talk about technology’s role in making these things easier for even smaller lenders. Listen to the whole episode here.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Buffalo, New York-based mortgage technology firm LenderLogix , a top provider of point-of-sale (POS) and automation software for independent mortgage banks , commercial banks and third-party brokers, announced Thursday that Ben Head will join the company as an account executive.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

The blockchain revolution may soon be coming to mortgage lending. The Mike Cagney-led fintech lender Figure Technologies , most recently valued at $3.2 According to Inside Mortgage Finance, Homebridge was the 28th-largest mortgage originator in 2020, originating about $26.4 billion in mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has named former Fannie Mae CEO and Blend president Tim Mayopoulos as CEO of Silicon Valley Bank N.A. , an FDIC-operated “bridge bank” meant to protect all depositors of the now shut-down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The bank failed to raise capital to plug a $1.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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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. How mortgage lenders are qualifying the value of fintech solutions. Presented by: Total Expert.

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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. “They can add up to several percentage points of the total mortgage amount. . At least when it comes to redundancies with refinancings, that is.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Leading property data and analytics company CoreLogic ’s newly launched digital mortgage platform (DMP) aims to streamline the mortgage process and improve efficiency for lenders. CoreLogic acquired digital mortgage tech provider Roostify in February. CoreLogic acquired digital mortgage tech provider Roostify in February.

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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. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Rocket Mortgage had purchase origination volume of $47.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AI and data-led fintech company Pagaya Technologies named Sanjiv Das as president. Das spent six years as CEO of Caliber Home Loans — a NewRez -owned residential mortgage lending company — until January 2022. He has also held senior roles at Morgan Stanley , American Express and Bank of America.

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