Mortgage technology

Simple messages communicated repeatedly over multiple mediums yield the most successful communication strategies.

Walter Investment Management, which controls subservicer Green Tree Financial, has added Reverse Mortgage Solutions to its stable of residential finance firms.

Nothing like a couple of high-profile money laundering cases to bring the entire industry into regulators' crosshairs.

Compliance with the CFPB’s redesigned borrower disclosure requires new technology and processes.

Ellie Mae COO Jonathan Corr discusses emerging trends in mortgage origination technology.

The software-based program can be customized to meet each servicers different workflows, thereby enhancing compliance, performance and borrower experience.

The REO market remains hot, and so are business process management solutions that enable servicers to gain control of processes.

The tamper-evident electronic mortgage seal gets put to the test.

The roots of the mortgage crisis stretch back to 1996 with the introduction of Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter automated underwriting systems.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the impact that housing is having on the U.S. economy.

Lender Processing Services and RentRange will offer rental property income data to mortgage servicers, investors and others who need it to make informed decisions about distressed housing assets.

Residential Capital Corp./GMAC Mortgage has hired Steve Hewins as vice president in charge of vendor strategy and governance.

Data integrity is the key to compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act.

Problems with the newly installed System for Award Management forced the General Services Administration to allow FHA lenders to use an old system to check the federal government’s “Excluded Parties List.”

A better method of moving electronic files is available, even as the industry waits on 4506-T electronic authorizations.

Shorter attention spans might be the upshot of the growth in social media usage and you must adjust your sales skills accordingly.

Exploring five unique mortgage lending markets shows that while other countries have unique characteristics, there are also many similarities to the U.S.

Secure Settlements has developed a proprietary risk analysis software that references national databases and a risk rating system to verify closing companies and individuals in real time and provide a standardized evaluation and reporting platform for mortgage originators.

Scandals have tarnished the reputations of many large bank mortgage lenders and one expert believes they need to go back to being community lenders, the same niche their smaller competitors occupy.

Determining a portfolio’s exact level of risk is particularly challenging due, in part, to the sheer volume of data and information requiring thorough review.