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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Eric Woodward is the senior advisor to Socure.
Socure provides digital identity verification and identity fraud prevention. Founded in 2012, the company's mission is to verify 100% of good identities in real time for customers including financial institutions, government agencies and enterprises across all industries.
Prior to Socure, Woodward was engaged in more than a dozen advisory roles — from advising public and private CEOs to senior executives to private equity firms — for digital identity, payments risk and data infrastructure opportunities. Before these advisory positions, Woodward was the group president of Early Warning, a financial institution data consortium, and the parent company of Zelle. During his time at Early Warning, he led the risk services business and initiated the build-out of Zelle's real-time fraud and risk capabilities. Prior to that role, he led the strategy and M&A group at Early Warning.
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The home lenders voted by their employees as the Best Mortgage Companies to Work For in 2024 discuss supporting and engaging teams during a trying time for the industry.
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The root cause of the hack affecting over 5 million customers was an employee clicking on a link in a work-related search result, according to public case documents.
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Rocket shrunk its workforce by about 20% year-over-year, while Academy cut 250 employees prior to being acquired by Guild Mortgage.
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A proposed class action claims the broker company used the photographs and information of LOs not affiliated with the company as a means to drive traffic to its website.
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Critics argue the Federal Home Loan Bank System earned record profits last year and should provide a public benefit commensurate with the perks to members.
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New York Community Bancorp faced new questions Friday after a flurry of disclosures led to a steep sell-off in its stock. The embattled Long Island-based lender beefed up its risk leadership, but Fitch cut its rating to "junk" status.
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Prices in several cities came in more than 20% above what would be considered a sustainable level when compared to local economic factors, according to the rating agency's report.
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While a Fannie Mae study confirms that the vast majority want to age in place, people 60 and older don't want to use their residence as a piggy bank.
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