Technology News from National Mortgage News

The serial entrepreneur, who also created Rapid Reporting and American Transfer & Trust, plans to remain active in industry causes, a LinkedIn post said.

Mortgage companies have transitioned from trying to encourage AI use to managing spending on it through a strategy dubbed "tokenomics."

State agencies supervise about 79% of U.S. banks. Their umbrella group just published the questions, documents and risk tiers examiners may use.

Whether their solutions come from in-house investments or vendors, top originators don't let their loan officers waste time tinkering with technology.

Anxieties over AI drew attention from Democrats and Republicans during Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's testimony at the House Financial Services Committee.

Banks have embraced artificial intelligence for years. Now, after a week of dire warnings about the technology's risks, executives at two big banks are calling for caution and calm.

Seller-impersonation attempts more than doubled in two years, with artificial intelligence providing fraudsters new tools to commit crimes, a report said.

Sypher Capital Management announced the public launch of its new independent comparison site for bitcoin-backed loans and mortgages last week.

Atlas VMS acquired CloseClear.ai to help lenders prevent post-appraisal GSE buybacks. The tech continuously matches active pipelines against live disaster maps to plug closing blind spots.

Cyber policies must keep pace with a surge in incidents fueled by AI, as well a growing trend toward account takeovers.

Fannie Mae seller guide update SEL-2026-08 includes a definition of present, residential and subordinate use cases in the new context of highest and best use.

As UAD 3.6's Nov. 2 mandate shrinks an aging appraiser pool, AnnieMac and Lower lean on AUS waivers and in-house teams to dodge 2022-style fee spikes and turn-time delays.

United Wholesale Mortgage launched a "first-of-its-kind" ChatGPT plugin that connects borrowers with independent mortgage brokers across the country.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reveal how title, appraisal, and automation initiatives are trimming borrower expenses by hundreds to thousands per transaction.

The real-estate services firm has purchased a title search company and affiliate just months after buying the Mortgage Contracting Services division from MCS.

The homebuilding giant reported two separate cyber incidents this year, with the most recent breach of its mortgage unit affecting more than 348,000 individuals.

Academy Mortgage's deal will cover around 285,000 class members. It's the sixth deal this year by a mortgage firm seeking to squash consumer complaints.

While vibe coding has opened the door for businesses to develop and scale their own technology, the cost of building is catching many by surprise.

The fee was to be paid by users who still needed short-term access via software developer kit interfaces to Encompass after the scheduled Dec. 31 sunset.

Data moving outside of physical documents in the secondary mortgage market is adding millions to costs per year, according to the Housing Policy Council.