Digital mortgages

Mike Cagney’s current venture, Figure Technologies, is offering consumers the ability to apply online for home equity loans and get funding in as little as five days.

As the housing market enters a new era, shifts in the demand for mortgages will ultimately dictate the direction of technology, staffing and GSE reform.

Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has purchased the remaining equity in Merscorp Holdings it did not already own.

While digital expansion of the mortgage application process increases convenience, it inherently comes with the downside of heightened fraud risk.

Consumer demand for “ease of information and ease of interaction” is driving the digital mortgage era, says John Schleck, senior vice president at Bank of America.

LoanDepot is using scale and technology to its advantage by evaluating borrower demands through surveys and real-time assessments of customer profiles, says Chief Technology Officer Dominick Marchetti.

Bank of America is taking what consumers are accustomed to on the banking side and applying that to its lending division to offer a consistent digital experience, says John Schleck, the bank’s senior vice president.

Dominick Marchetti, chief technology officer at loanDepot, explains how the digital mortgage era is being driven by borrowers seeking a more dominant role in the process.

Technology will help compile and assess property data so that the future of real estate appraisers is that they won’t exist, says Matt Rider, chief information officer at Franklin American Mortgage.