Intercontinental Exchange's move to acquire Black Knight and Lower's purchase of Hamilton Home Loans are just some of the latest developments to monitor in the space.

The potential expansion of credit scoring models and the handling of post-foreclosure sales are just some of the issues at hand.

In response to a raft of recent data breaches, mortgage lenders are implementing a number of measures to protect their clients and themselves.

Crypto-collateralized loans and the use of shared digital ledgers would have been unimaginable in the not so distant past. Today, such technologies have seemingly limitless boundaries.