The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago purchased $303 million in loan participations from other FHLBanks in honoring outstanding commitments over the first nine months of this year. (MortgageWire reported Nov. 14 that the bank had stopped buying mortgage loans from other FHLBanks.)Earlier this year, the FHLBank said it would stop making new commitments under its Mortgage Partnership Finance program. A bank spokeswoman also pointed out that the Chicago bank purchased nearly $1 billion in mortgage loans from its members during the same period.
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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.
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BTIG is predicting mortgage origination volume for loanDepot, PennyMac Financial Services, Rithm, Rocket Cos., and UWM Holdings combined will be 5% lower than the industry consensus for the third quarter.
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Cyber policies must keep pace with a surge in incidents fueled by AI, as well a growing trend toward account takeovers.
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Researchers showed a message with no return address slips past Reject Direct Send. Credit unions were told to close this kind of gap in 2021.
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Also, the Broker Action Coalition announced Jamie Cavanaugh as its next CEO, while Dark Matter Technologies added two new members to its leadership team.
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