Applied Financial Technology, San Francisco, has entered into an agreement with McDash Analytics, Denver, that will provide McDash clients with AFT's short-term prepayment projections as well as housing turnover and refinancing scores.The strategic partnership combines scoring technology from AFT with McDash's database of nearly 20 million mortgages, about one half of the residential home loan market in the United States. Graham Williams, chief operating officer at AFT, told MortgageWire that the loan database will increase the "granularity" of AFT's scores and give McDash clients access to basic AFT prepayment scores and short-term prepayment projections. McDash provides prepayment and default management benchmarking services to the mortgage industry.
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New jobs in health care largely drove the gains, while the federal workforce and finance continued to shrink.
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Finance of America has not disclosed any incident, but a consumer filed an immediate lawsuit over a lone report of a ransomware gang's recent hack.
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United Wholesale Mortgage lost ground to RKT in one category but held onto a healthy lead in another, an analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data shows.
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HECM endorsements rose 16% in March to 2,117 loans, but monthly volumes remain near their slowest pace since last summer as proprietary reverse products quietly steal market share.
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Which parties are responsible for the surge persisted as a source of debate as community lenders released updated survey data reflecting their average expense.
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The 30-year fixed rate climbed to 6.46% this week, its highest mark since September, as mortgage applications fell 10.4% and sellers outnumber buyers by a record 46%.
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