Analytics

Calling the purchase of its first customer-relationship management vendor "a mistake," Ellie Mae CEO Jonathan Corr is ready to tee off with its new CRM acquisition, Mortgage Returns.

While national mortgage fraud risk is on the decline, here's a look at six markets where loan defects are rising.

Over a third of appraisals during the third quarter featured property quality or condition ratings that did not match previous ratings, according to an Oct. 19 report from Platinum Data Solutions.

Ellie Mae has agreed to purchase St. Louis-based Mortgage Returns, which provides customer-relationship management services.

By using data from both post-closing and prefunding quality control reviews, lenders can craft a more proactive prefunding QC strategy that takes into account high-risk areas that are specific to their businesses.

The Federal Housing Administration's Neighborhood Watch website is back online after crashing about three weeks ago.

By effectively using technology to gather and verify big data, lenders can underwrite with greater precision, improve loan-level decision making and maximize the integrity of their mortgage portfolios.

Black Knight Financial Services Inc. is benefiting from new banking regulations that push mortgage lenders to use automation software, sending the company's shares surging since its initial public offering two months ago.

To avoid alienating a consumer base increasingly expecting digital options, lenders must take the plunge and update old loan origination systems that cannot accommodate today's technology demands.

Nearly 25 years after a landmark deal and two subsequent legislative overhauls, glitches in the credit reporting system remain widespread. But while regulators and law enforcement officials are again raising the stakes for the credit reporting industry, critics fear it may not be enough.

A change to the way Zillow charges for mortgage rate advertising is poised to shake up the world of online lead generation — an increasingly important source of new business, but one where lenders face a constant struggle between quality versus quantity.

New technology developed by mortgage software vendor LoanLogics aims to automate and streamline closed-loan purchasing and quality control processes for correspondent investors.

Barclays is ending trading in $700 billion of U.S. mortgage bonds that were issued before the financial crisis.

In the struggle between operational compliance and cost control, advanced analytics and technology can help lenders find an efficient middle ground.

First American Financial Corp.'s title business is expecting a slow gain in market share driven by the upcoming integrated disclosures reforms, in part due to consolidation in the title industry.

Technology that takes into account the sales, cost and income approaches to property valuations is a more comprehensive method of risk assessment and can help detect pricing bubbles before they wreak havoc on the mortgage and real estate industries.

Can Rupert Murdoch take an online fixer-upper and turn it into a digital real estate profit spinner? We're about to find out.

Black Knight Financial Services, the mortgage technology company backed by private-equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, is seeking to raise as much as $425 million in an initial public offering.

Appraisal management company Solidifi has acquired national loan settlement services provider Southwest Financial Services.

Fannie Mae has incorporated Collateral Underwriter into its Desktop Underwriter and EarlyCheck offerings.