Data and information management

Using historical patterns to predict the next financial success or crisis seems rational. But beware the human psyche’s tendency to concoct order out of randomness.

A decline in overall customer brand perception has stalled mortgage servicer satisfaction, ending a multiyear trend of steady improvements, according to J.D. Power.

Borrowers can now self-serve when submitting application information at U.S. Bank, but the bank also has proprietary technology aimed at keeping loan officers looped in to help with product selection.

FNF Group has acquired Real Geeks to target single real estate agents unaffiliated with a team.

CoreLogic's second-quarter net income increased 2% over the previous year on higher operating income from improvements in productivity.

From automated applications that borrowers can complete on their own, to data-mapping that speeds up the underwriting process, here's a look at strategies that can help lenders close loans faster.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's efforts to provide representation and warranty relief to lenders that perform automated data validations before loans close will improve mortgage credit risk assessment and lower costs for lenders and borrowers.

If you borrowed to buy your home, chances are TheNumber knows a good deal about you.

LendingTree has added property valuation data to its My LendingTree site, showing consumers how much equity in their home they can tap.

CoreLogic is acquiring appraisal technology company Mercury Network from Serent Capital just two years after the San Francisco-based private equity firm purchased it.

Real estate site Zillow is launching a $1 million competition among data scientists to improve its "Zestimate" home valuations, but said the crowdsourcing initiative is unrelated to recent lawsuits filed in Chicago against the company.

Homeowners insurance agencies are embedding their policy-underwriting technology into mortgage companies' origination and servicing systems in a bid to chase the same customers together.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering a $2 billion portfolio of mortgage servicing rights on agency loans with imaged files on behalf of an undisclosed seller.

The time needed to close a mortgage improved nine days since the start of the year as the market has shifted to doing more purchase loans.

As financial institutions look closer at the increasingly detailed consumer credit data available, they are learning consumers are more apt to pay off personal loans before mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.

Hackers infiltrated a DocuSign system and stole an undisclosed number of consumer email addresses, forcing mortgage companies, banks and other financial institutions to step up their monitoring of electronic signature and e-vault providers.

Nexera Holding, which has operated as an online lender under the name Newfi, is applying that branding to the company as a whole.

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to reinforce the country’s cybersecurity defenses, a move that financial institutions view as a positive step toward creating a more resilient financial system.

The IRS will allow Fidelity National Financial to distribute its entire stake in Black Knight Financial Services to FNF Group shareholders in a tax-free transaction.

Thomas H. Lee Partners is selling approximately 13% of its stake in Black Knight Financial Services in a secondary public offering.