Mortgage technology

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.

American icon Dick Clark died recently at the age of 82. He is best known for hosting the television show “American Bandstand” as far back as the 1950s to three decades at the helm of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” all the way up to this past Dec. 31. But what many people don’t know is that Clark also created and hosted several TV game shows and owned a chain of restaurants.

KossREsource.com, an online information portal for the commercial real estate industry, has gone live. Among the features of the site is an extensive database of debt and equity financing alternatives which is user driven.

Lender Processing Services will acquire mortgage origination technology developer LendingSpace in a deal expected to close later this month.

If you think there couldn't possibly be yet another new requirement facing servicers, think again.

The crisis in mortgage lending and the anger that followed the robo-signing scandal has become a crisis of paper.

Some friends and I recently decided to do a "staycation" in Scottsdale, Ariz. The experience was horrendous, but they taught me several valuable lessons about our industry.

The nomination deadline for the 2012 Mortgage Technology Awards has been extended until 12 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 10.

The stock market soared upwards on Friday morning and that rising tide also brought up many stocks associated with the mortgage industry.

The operators of an allegedly deceptive mortgage modification business will pay more than $750,000 in ill-gotten gains to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. The settlements also permanently ban the 11 defendants from selling any mortgage assistance relief products.

Despite recent advances by credit scoring companies, the mortgage industry still questions whether credit scores can be relied on to predict borrower behavior.