Mortgage technology

We're hearing as this is a holiday week, it seems fitting that my blog post focus on a recent vacation.

Two cornerstones of the mortgage business will be penalized under the risk-based capital regime the federal banking agencies are adopting.

Like schoolyard bullies, cyberbullies scan the financial marketplace looking for weakness to exploit—and they may have found it in smartphone and tablet applications.

Sabal Financial Group CEO Pat Jackson sees niche business growth opportunity within the third-party servicing space.

They need to know about things like data security, cash flow management and business credit.

There is a post on the Mortgage Grapevine by someone looking for help with Fannie Mae’s Desktop Originator.

Any time there are regulatory changes there is a direct and significant impact on the technology required by originators and servicers to conduct daily business.

Besides DataQuick Information Systems, CoreLogic is buying the credit and flood services operations from DataQuick Lender Solutions.

When Wolters Kluwer asked bankers recently which regulatory concerns keep them up at night, 46% said "regulatory reform"—referring to new rules stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In an effort to simplify its mortgage process and improve compliance, BOK Financial has chosen DocuTech’s mortgage loan document software.

In this segment of a roundtable discussion from the 2013 Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Fraud Issues Conference, the panelists explain how a closing agent is now doing a vendors job verifying the information that is submitted on a loan application.

Some lenders are still operating under the old “fix it later” mentality.

Demand for valuation analytics lead LoanLogics and Platinum Data Solutions into a partnership that links loan performance reporting to collateral valuation technology.

It can seem like you are understaffed one minute and overstaffed the next, all the while spending valuable time and resources finding the best and most knowledgeable people.

If you’re a mortgage technology vendor and you’re located in a place not generally known as a hotbed in that industry where do you find skilled employees?

We're hearing that the days of tension between appraisal management companies and individual appraisers may be coming to an end.

ISGN CEO Ritesh Idnani discusses how lenders should use technology to prepare for changes in the mortgage industry.

When it comes to the changing regulatory landscape, automation is playing a key role as it can tell appropriate users when to reference and act on rules as they stand at the time of action.

After five years in conservatorship, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still use separate automated underwriting systems with different credit standards.

First American Title Insurance Co. has opened a commercial real estate version of its myFirstAm Web portal.