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Justin Fier is director for cyber intelligence and analysis at Darktrace.

HSBC anticipates its mortgage underwriting volume ramping up significantly after recent initiatives to provide loan officers with more tools and time to address the complex needs of affluent customers, often from overseas.

David M. Toll is the publisher and editor of the weekly newsletter Private Equity Career News.

Zillow Group shares were poised to fall to a six-week low after its results and updated forecasts suggested its entire "portfolio is faltering" at a critical time for the company looking to pivot its business, analysts said.

Most digital transformation efforts concentrate on loan origination technology and do not deal with the costs incurred in the settlement and closing process.

Michelle Krause is a senior managing director of Accenture and leader of the firm’s North America Insurance Client Service Group. She is responsible for helping insurers develop, manage and deploy large scale technology systems, business processes and strategies. In her career with Accenture, which spans almost 20 years, Krause has worked with many of the top insurance carriers in the industry, assisting them in their efforts to become high-performance businesses. Her expertise lies in insurance processes, product and policy management, claims management and underwriting, focused primarily on the areas of financial services insurance, and property and casualty insurance. As Client Service Group leader, Krause and her teams develop strategies to help insurers address capacity and infrastructure constraints, streamline and standardize processes, and develop custom-built policy administration platforms.

More applications for non-QM loans might close if lenders and originators beefed up efforts to address missing or outdated information, according to Computershare.