Mortgage technology

Industry-driven solutions based on some of the most pressing issues facing real estate valuation today are crucial to the mortgage marketplace today as it adopts to the post-crisis reality.

The next few months will see significant changes in the mortgage loan market and those changes will impact the credit unions that write those loans.

While there is no shortage of technology available today, partnering with the wrong solution provider could spell disaster for an institution, and potentially jeopardize future business processes.

Citibank has opened its first smart banking technology flagship branch on the West Coast in the Westwood section of Los Angeles.

Nationstar Mortgage and Nationstar Capital Corp. reported they intend to sell an aggregate principal amount of 6.5% in unsecured senior notes due 2022.

One trade group that understands the importance of developing technologies and strategies to protect mortgage lenders’ reputation from negative social media posts is the Independent Community Bankers Association of America.

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Veterans United, which serves active and retired members of the military, financed roughly $3.3 billion in loans last year.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's proposed compliance rules for banks' use of social media are sweeping and broad.

Don’t substitute technology for good old face-to-face communications with B2B contacts.

Fidelity National Financial said that it acquired Lender Processing Services, confirming rumors that the two had been making plans to make a deal worth $2.9 billion.

A.M. Best cites the improved capitalization and operating results for Stewart Title Group.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau believes the final qualified mortgage rule won’t impinge on 90% of loans of being originated today, but lenders don't.

Carrington Real Estate Services has launched a mobile online resource center that is designed to save real estate agents time.

Title insurer Fidelity National Financial is in talks to buy 80% of LPS in a $2.9 billion deal that values the target at $33 a share.

Fidelity National Financial dominates mortgage underwriting. Its former LPS unit is the top mortgage servicer. The question is whether by reuniting two companies that have run out of room to grow separately can prosper together.

JPMorgan has another prime jumbo mortgage-backed securities deal in the pipeline, according to three companies’ presale ratings reports.

Lender Processing Services has had a turbulent couple of years since the beginning of the robo-signing scandal from 2010 to the present day that included lawsuits, a consent order and several settlements of charges. The robo-signing allegations involved an LPS unit that allegedly created bogus mortgage assignments so that foreclosures may be processed more quickly and efficiently.

Lender Processing Services is in talks to be acquired by title insurer Fidelity National Financial and private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners in a $2.9 billion deal.

Quandis’ valuation system is completely Web-based and enables asset management outsourcers to manage the placement, receipt, distribution, processing and automatic delivery of broker price opinion orders in one automated platform.