Mortgage technology

• CFPB Disclosure Redesign • Product and Investor Data • International Mortgage Tech • Universal Lending Systems

The CFPB is working on a real estate issue that gets to the core of its purpose: transparency and better disclosures of costly loan process fees.

It is widely recognized throughout the industry that short sale completions are increasing.

A consultant with Potomac Partners told National Mortgage News that the "System for Award Management" seems to be running a bit better.

A General Services Administration website that FHA lenders must check before approving loans crashed Monday and has been down most of the week, delaying mortgage closings, National Mortgage News has learned.

Lenders of all sizes are looking into becoming servicers, bringing us full circle back to the days when virtually every lender serviced their own loans.

It’s (almost) late summer and what better time to throw out a ‘loose ends’ blog on several story leads, ideas, and thoughts that have been knocking around my head (and inbox) of late.

The judges of the Mortgage Technology Awards have selected this year's finalists. Watch to see who will contend for 11 of the award categories.

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization released the latest version of its reference model for a 30-day intellectual property rights review, the final step before MISMO Version 3.2 reaches the final “Recommendation” status for implementation.

With less than two months before the annual Mortgage Technology Awards ceremony, the judges’ panel is pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s awards.

DocMagic and Ellie Mae have yet to settle their legal dispute and the presiding judge granted an extension to his deadline for the companies to come to terms.

Controversy about what method leads to higher real estate valuation accuracy and realistic pricing is keeping up competition between vendors striving to custom fit their tools to the changing needs of their lender and servicer clients.

The web portal will provide homeowners with information that helps them make knowledgeable decisions about what foreclosure alternative options are available to pursue.

Technology at home is about wants, while technology at work should be about needs—business needs.

Technology can provide a do-it-yourself origination process. But are borrowers ready?

Appraisers may have started to change their business practices one at a time probably only a few years ago, but their strategy shift and where they are headed already has started to become clear.

Chip Mahan, the founder of the first online bank, Security First Network Bank, and current CEO of Live Oak Banking Company in Wilmington, N.C., has helped launch a cloud-based technology company called nCino that has already signed up Live Oak and five other banks.

In an exclusive interview with Mortgage Technology, Davis Henderson President and CEO Gerrard Schmid explains how the Canadian tech developer plans to combine Mortgagebot’s POS and Avista’s LOS technology.

Lenders that shift to a retained servicing model must make significant modifications to their technology and processes.

CitiMortgage will be the second correspondent mortgage investor to use a technology and services offering from Ellie Mae that provides tamper-proof versions of borrower verification data on loans sold by correspondent lenders.