NMN Staff

The Originations event on April 15 dives deep into shifting market conditions, while our servicing symposium on June 17 will zero in on the most important issues facing that sector today. It all leads up to our Digital Mortgage Conference in September. Get involved!

Also: ClosingCorp, BSI Financial company Entra Solutions, CoreVest, BlackFin and Maxex add to their rosters.

Also: How 9.3 million renters could enter the purchase market, lessons from Flagstar’s data breach and a possible 15-year plan for Fannie and Freddie.

Also: Fannie sets early limits, servicing retention rates fade to record lows and loan broker inquiries rise as competition heats up.

How mortgage companies with 500 or more employees stacked up against each other.

How mortgage companies with between 100 and 499 employees stacked up against each other.

How mortgage companies with between 15 and 99 employees stacked up against each other.

Homepoint Financial creates chief diversity and inclusion officer position, PennyMac appoints CEO to two chairman roles and more of the latest hiring and promotion announcements in the mortgage industry.

Also: CoStar boosts CoreLogic offer, Biden extends forebearance and the Fed sounds alarms on commercial real estate

Also: New Residential, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac release Q4 earnings reports

Ocwen Financial, Interfirst Mortgage, Marcus & Millichap and others announce new leadership hires.

The waivers to standard procedure will remain in place until December 2021.

The longtime senior advisor to the agency replaces Alfred Pollard, who retires in March.

Open Mortgage, Aces Quality Management, Verity Global Solutions, Cherry Creek Mortgage and InterLinc Mortgage Services all announced hirings and promotions.

Plus, 4Q earnings show strong mortgage volumes, growth forecasted for jumbo loan market and more.

From the CARES Act’s effects to the spate of nonbanks going public, these developments stand to shape how the playing field looks in 2021.

The number of nonbank mortgage lenders who launched IPOs or merged with SPACs took off like a rocket in the second half of the year.

Here are some of the more significant transactions that took place in a highly unusual year for the real estate finance business.

The data and analytics firm spent much of 2020 battling stakeholders Senator Investments and Cannae Holdings in a bitter war of words. Here’s a timeline of what went down.

Also: credit availability expands, mortgage apps slide and Nexsys Technologies releases home insurance verification tool Rocket Mortgage uses.