Fitch Ratings has assigned Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corp. an RPS3-plus residential primary servicer rating for reverse-mortgage loans.Fitch said the rating is based on Financial Freedom's expertise in servicing reverse mortgages, integrated payment processing and reverse-mortgage systems, and established quality-monitoring procedures. Fitch said the rating also reflects the financial strength of parent company IndyMac Bank, which has a long-term debt rating of BBB-minus from Fitch. Financial Freedom is based in Irvine, Calif., and has a specialized reverse-mortgage servicing platform in San Francisco. Financial Freedom serviced approximately 93,000 loans totaling more than $9.8 billion as of May 31.
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From higher immediate pricing to long-term impacts on the housing market, originators are assessing what the rise in the 10-year Treasury yield means.
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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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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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