Digital mortgages

Amazon's reputation is built on customer fulfillment and technology innovation, but are those enough to guarantee success in the mortgage business?

Mortgage and real estate professionals need to do a better job of educating consumers and themselves about the growing vulnerability to wire fraud schemes during the home buying process.

After years of largely standing on the sidelines, lawmakers are taking a closer look at whether algorithms used by banks and fintechs to make lending decisions could make discrimination worse instead of better.

After hiring half the laid-off staff from Live Well Financial, Open Mortgage plans to engineer a careful transition to operating as a larger-scale business.

Blend, a mortgage technology firm that named former Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos its president early this year, has raised $130 million in Series E funding for an expansion.

Because automated valuation models have not been subjected to a stressed housing market, their increased use holds negatives and positives for residential mortgage-backed securities credit quality, a Moody's report said.

Real value comes from the wholesaler using a hands-on approach to ensure that a mortgage broker's customers are treated to the best experience for the life of the loan.

As Amazon looms over the mortgage industry, expert views differ on the retail monolith claiming its stake in the sector.

Ally wants to increase productivity and improve the use of analytics to build on customer relationships.

A Western Union survey claims consumers are unable to tell the difference between humans and interactive voice response or artificial intelligence when needing customer or payment assistance, but their responses may say otherwise.