Mortgage technology

With the bucket-load of regulations coming down the pike toward mandatory implementation in our industry, it’s time to track, measure and quantify experience while simultaneously speeding the process, complying with changing rules, and recovering the most dollars.

The economy is in the tank and thousands of people are out of work. In the U.S., given the slow recovery, the housing crisis continues.

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Lenders Compliance Group is using Veros Real Estate Solutions' collateral integrity analysis product for prefunding and post-closing audits, early payment defaults, high default due diligence, as well as warehouse bank and portfolio reviews.

Merscorp Holdings will provide the state of Delaware’s Department of Justice Consumer Protection Unit a semi-annual report detailing results of its internal audits.

The delinquent loan inventory at Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. fell by less than 1,000 loans during June, as there were 154,973 loans in the inventory at the start of the month and MGIC received 11,200 new notices of delinquency in June.

The credit-score company VantageScore Solutions, which beat an antitrust lawsuit last year, is taking precautions to avoid repeating the experience.

A new tool for originators to help them get the most out of their social media marketing efforts.

The causes of the mortgage meltdown were widespread. Repeatedly identifying one group, like brokers, may be politically expedient, but it isn’t honest.

The American Bankers Association has renewed its secondary market relationship with Freddie Mac.

The distressed mortgage market and demand for default-servicing technology is not ebbing away any time soon. Before that happens, vendors are busy beefing up their strategic resources.

With more activity and more investor interest in the nonperforming loan market recently, it's a good idea to know what steps should be taken to protect your interests when buying or selling these assets.

If there is anything all players in the reverse mortgage lending arena agree upon—trade group, regulator and consumer advocate—is the need for more education about this product, especially if it starts getting the market share that has been long predicted.

Fidelity National Financial’s ServiceLink division acquired DRI Management Systems, while simultaneously rebranding DRI’s default servicing workflow platform.

Printing and marketing materials provider Taylor Corp. will enter the mortgage industry with its acquisition of servicing documentation provider Venture Encoding.

For Richard Weiner, remaining a leading producer at Envoy Mortgage means having to do just as much, if not more, as getting there.

It's not easy being a residential property appraiser these days.

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision holding that the patent infringement asserted against MarketLinx, a business unit of CoreLogic, was invalid.

Accurate disclosure of fees topped access to rates without having to disclose personal information in what American consumers most want in a mortgage shopping website.

Financial institutions that limit their social media strategies to Twitter and Facebook are also limiting their potential.