Analytics

The monthly prepayment rate declined in January, an indication of the effects of higher interest rates.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings reported significantly higher net income for the fourth quarter, due to improved revenue in its servicing segment.

International Document Services has updated its idsDoc technology to support upcoming changes to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting.

Black Knight Financial Services has launched a new tool that identifies potential liabilities to reduce title insurers' claims.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have released the final specification update regarding the Uniform Closing Dataset, the digital file format for the TRID Closing Disclosure form.

CoreLogic has released a new mobile application that provides access to property data and analytics.

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization has extended the comment period on its proposed standard regarding the maintenance and sharing of commercial and multifamily rent-roll information.

Initiatives aimed at a more inclusive credit box have long relied on costly approaches that are difficult to scale. Now, demographic shifts are intensifying industry demand for a more automated and efficient solution.

Demographics are shifting, creating more prospective minority homebuyers than ever before. But predominant underwriting processes and these would-be borrowers' financial backgrounds are holding them back.

Fannie Mae's Day 1 Certainty initiative and automated verification tools at Freddie Mac are set to improve mortgage loan application defect and misrepresentation risk in 2017, according to a report from First American Financial Corp.