Mortgage technology

LoanSafeMods.com is offering a new tool designed to facilitate decision making for borrowers looking at foreclosure alternative options.

Republic Mortgage Home Loans has developed a mobile app exclusively for its borrowers.

Lending Processing Services is adding former Treasury secretary John Snow to its board.

Bliss Sawyer been working on a new e-book and recently wrote up the chapter on social media.

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

We're hearing online lenders’ reputations grow publicly with every failure, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw.

It is a sign of both the tough economy and the changing regulatory environment for mortgage servicers that they are upgrading the technologies they use to manage mortgage defaults.

We're hearing that the Chinese military may be responsible for attempts to hack into the databases of U.S. corporations, which is starting to rattle some cages in the financial industry, including lenders.

VantageScore Solutions has reconstructed its credit scoring model both to aid lender implementation and consumer understanding.

Real estate information provider DataQuick has introduced a new set of portfolio analytics.

Technology Credit Union has increased its lending limits on super jumbo loans up to $8 million on ARMs and $3 million on fixed-rate mortgages.

C3 Compliance Consultants Inc. and industry vendor ComplianceEase have agreed to a joint marketing arrangement.

2013 is the year the housing market will see even stronger recovery.

Genworth U.S. Mortgage Insurance has created a rate and comparison tool for loan officers.

New technology brings the promise of improved processes—and most lenders understand that.

Residential real estate brokerage ZipRealty has released a proprietary technology tool designed to verify for consumers the sales status of homes they find online.

For at least the past 25 years the residential mortgage industry has gone through one refinance-driven boom-and-bust cycle after the other.

Cooperation was the common theme among field service providers attending the MBA National Mortgage Servicing Conference and a necessity that will drive business strategies in this segment of the marketplace this year and beyond.

Mortgage software manufacturer MortgageFlex has formed a partnership with Global DMS, a provider of valuation software.

Everyone in the mortgage banking industry is dealing with the effect of the foreclosure crisis which brought about unprecedented regulatory pressures and the need to reinvent the way mortgage servicers do business on a daily basis while planning for the long term.