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Abhinav Asthana of Wipro Gallagher Solutions details the company's new mobile LOS app.

Wil Armstrong, CEO of Blueberry Systems and chairman of Cherry Creek Mortgage, discusses how origination technology can help lenders' retained servicing strategies.

Abhinav Asthana of Wipro Gallagher Solutions discusses mobile technology security concerns.

LemonDrop, a networking group for women mortgage industry professionals, held a reception at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix during the Mortgage Bankers Association’s technology conference in April.

Market insiders at the SourceMedia Mortgage Servicing Conference in Dallas set down with Mortgage Servicing News editors to talk about a wide variety of issues that concern the industry. Topics included the foreclosure bulge, the shadow inventory, and others. Participants think that servicing may never “go back to normal” and instead must invent a new normal for itself. And since the mortgage industry overall is changing, that new normalcy in the mortgage servicing niche is still pretty difficult to define.The business, one roundtable participant said, has gone from a crisis of credit to a crisis in confidence that shows little sign of being resolved yet.

Abhinav Asthana of Wipro Gallagher Solutions discusses issues and trends around mobile technology.

As the housing industry continues to make a recovery from the most recent recession, the theme of this year’s show in Dallas was “shifting gears to build for the future.” Some popular topics that were talked about among session panelists and attendees were short sales, strategic defaults strategies and the REO-to-rental initiative.

The discussion in a number of panel sessions at the Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in New York on May 6 through 9, was if, let alone when, private capital would return to the industry. In the exhibit hall, much of the vendor focus was on technology and compliance which would ease that transition. Nary a wholesaler or correspondent aggregator was exhibiting.

In the May issue of Origination News, we published our annual ranking of the mortgage industries leading originators by volume. There is also a listing of top originators by units. Christopher Vincent Hussain repeated as the No. 1 originator.