Analytics

Home Captain, a fintech company that looks to increase mortgage-lead conversion rates, completed a Series A financing round led by Spring Mountain Capital.

CoreLogic will have to provide property data to Attom Data Solution's RealtyTrac unit for three additional years to resolve allegations it did not adhere to a 2014 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Financial data and analytics company FinLocker has gained the approval of a second patent supporting its digital vault functionality.

Ellie Mae's fourth-quarter and full-year revenue increased over the corresponding prior periods following its acquisition of Velocify.

While the majority of lenders feel mortgage industry data initiatives have been valuable, their cost is clouding some originators' viewpoint, a Fannie Mae survey found.

With mortgage originations on the decline, lenders that want to regain lost volume or grow market share must work harder to identify and reach underserved borrower segments.

Home equity lines could double over the next six years. Some banks are actively pursuing the consumer credit opportunity, whereas many still feel stung by the housing crisis, unimpressed by home equity’s comeback so far or fearful of nonbank competition and fraud.

First American Mortgage Solutions is offering new data and technology support for appraisers aimed at reducing turn times for valuations and, in turn, closing times for lenders.

Some banks are looking at how to translate the complicated and document-heavy mortgage lending process into the digital world of voice-interactive personal assistants.

Freddie Mac has gotten the green light for its appraisal alternative for purchase loans, and has released information about how similar automated collateral evaluations for refinances have performed.

CoreLogic's second-quarter net income increased 2% over the previous year on higher operating income from improvements in productivity.

LendingTree has added property valuation data to its My LendingTree site, showing consumers how much equity in their home they can tap.

CoreLogic is acquiring appraisal technology company Mercury Network from Serent Capital just two years after the San Francisco-based private equity firm purchased it.

Real estate site Zillow is launching a $1 million competition among data scientists to improve its "Zestimate" home valuations, but said the crowdsourcing initiative is unrelated to recent lawsuits filed in Chicago against the company.

The time needed to close a mortgage improved nine days since the start of the year as the market has shifted to doing more purchase loans.

By replicating human tasks, robotic process automation technology is driving scale and efficiency in loan manufacturing.

loanDepot has invested $80 million in a three-part digital lending platform called mello and is opening a 65,000-square-foot technology campus in Irvine, Calif.

Lenders can track the effectiveness of product pricing changes on a real-time basis using a new market share analytics tool from Optimal Blue.

The reduction in refinance activity as the mortgage industry pivots toward purchase transactions amid higher interest rates has caused loan defect and fraud risk to rise, according to First American Financial Corp.

CoreLogic has released a new platform that provides information on lien and equity positions for whole loan traders and servicers.