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Fast tracking closing and funding is the critical differentiator among lenders, the 2026 Mortgage-Home Equity Scorecard report from Keynova found.

Despite Treasury intervention to calm bond yields, persistent deficit pressure continues to trap mortgage rates, keeping application volume flat and squeezing origination revenue.

Kastle lands another high-profile client, SWBC adds insurtech to its servicing platform, while other mortgage lenders also embark on new partnerships.

Informative Research also updates its flagship verification product, and nCino enables streamlined workflows for users of open-source protocols.

Attom's data adds to signs that the market's loan performance buffer is solid but thinning in some areas, and shows the trend affects both ends of the market.

The company is the third mortgage lender in recent months to start or reestablish its business sourcing loans from brokers, with one potential entrant to come.

Elevated mortgage rates and consumers' uncertainty about the economy are weighing on housing demand in the US as a whole, but wealthier buyers have been cushioned by higher incomes, home equity and well-performing stock portfolios.

Just two weeks after releasing its planned schedule for buybacks this quarter, the Treasury Department on Wednesday said it's "increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations" for securities dated from the 10-year to the 30-year sector. 

As tech facilities push into lower income and rural housing markets, lenders navigate local growth without major impacts on home sales price trends.

Cyberattacks involving artificial intelligence were up 56% in the past year and added on average $1 million to businesses' data breach expenses.