Servicing

A developer who swindled almost $400,000 from six families who sought new homes in Kirkwood, Mo., was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Nov. 8.

The share of severely underwater mortgages shrunk by over two percentage points compared with a year ago, as these borrowers benefited from the rise in equity levels, Attom Data Solutions said.

Brent Chandler of FormFree, Tim Mayopoulos of Blend and Tamra Rieger of Evergreen Home Loans share their Digital Mortgage 2019 highlights

Rick Lang of Freddie Mac, Tim Mayopoulos of Blend and Tamra Rieger of Evergreen Home Loans discuss the key objectives – from customer experience to system integrations – that mortgage companies are pursuing through digitalization.

Aaron King of Snapdocs, Brent Chandler of FormFree, Tim Mayopoulos of Blend, and Chris Backe of Ellie Mae talk about system fragmentation, data access issues, personnel management and other hurdles that still stand between the industry and comprehensive digitalization.

Black Knight and PennyMac Financial Services are suing each other in separate disputes linked respectively to the latter's creation of a servicing platform and the former's dominant position in the market.

Ocwen Financial's cost-cutting initiatives are bearing fruit toward returning to profitability, management said, although the company's third-quarter loss was slightly higher than the same period one year ago.

Financial regulators have been put on notice about the risk of an economically damaging cash crunch in the home mortgage market. Behind the concern: the rapid growth of shadow banks in the origination and servicing of home loans.

The San Francisco fintech company has agreed to pay a $110,000 fine for failing to comply with a 2017 state law that requires mortgage servicers to be licensed.