The mortgage industry's digital transformation is revolutionizing the home buying experience and upending the status quo for lenders and servicers. The Digital Mortgage Conference is the premiere event exclusively dedicated to these developments, bringing over 1,500 professionals to Las Vegas on Sept. 17-18 for keynote speakers, panels and the main attraction: live product demos showcasing the latest mortgage innovations.

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A gauge of U.S. homebuilder sentiment declined for an eighth-straight month, marking the worst stretch since the housing market collapsed in 2007 amid higher borrowing costs and elevated prices.
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Payment for the whole loan and servicing-rights trading platform will be a mix of cash and stock, with the price and closing of the deal subject to certain contingencies.
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Emily LeStrange, CFA, CFP®, is the head of Vanguard Personalized Indexing. LeStrange's team is responsible for the strategy, service and distribution of Vanguard's personalized indexing offer for financial advisors.
Prior to her current role, LeStrange was a senior investment director on Vanguard's Manager Oversight and Search team. In this role, she was responsible for the continuous monitoring of a subset of Vanguard's 25 independent active equity investment managers, Vanguard's Equity Index Group and Vanguard's Quantitative Equity Group on behalf of Vanguard's Global Investment Committee and the board of directors. Previously, she held roles in Vanguard's Flagship Services, Investment Management Fintech Strategies and Corporate Strategy groups.
LeStrange earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in American Studies and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. She is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
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The bank plans to shrink its vast mortgage empire, which once churned out one of every three home loans in the U.S. and for a time made the bank the most valuable in the nation.
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Corey Tucker is the Director of Innovation and Senior Product Manager at commute management platform RideAmigos.
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Rising insurance costs and pricier fire resistant building materials are testing how the second most expensive state responds to climate emergencies
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are mum on whether a temporary solution from Florida officials to support downgraded home insurance firms will pass muster for the enterprises' underwriting exceptions.
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Additionally: FHFA adds reporting mandate for servicers and more layoffs are announced.
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Recent reports highlight the question of how much wage growth can do to sustain loan performance as pandemic relief gets rolled back, consumer costs rise and the housing market cools.
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Julie A. Hill is the Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professor of Law at the University of Alabama.
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