Mortgage technology

As investors look to capitalize on distressed mortgage portfolio opportunities, loan document questions and the role of MERS continue to arise.

Fitch Ratings has raised its ratings outlook for First American Financial and its subsidiaries to “positive” from “stable” because of the nation’s second largest title insurer’s capitalization, profitability and moderate financial leverage.

Technology vendor Mortgage Cadence expects to expand the reach of its origination software in the credit union sector with its pending acquisition of Prime Alliance Solutions.

Traditionally, underwriting focused on applying a static set of guidelines to determine an approve/reject decision.

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The latest upgrade, version 1.1.001, connects all real estate professionals involved in short sale transactions into one nationwide network.

Wipro Gallagher Solutions' Abhinav Asthana discusses where he sees mobile mortgage technology going in the future.

These days, many lenders’ licensing and legal departments are larger than what they were budgeted for, and adding efficiency without adding head count to the back office must be a priority.

NMN sister publication Mortgage Technology has recognized top-performing industry companies for more than a decade, dating back to when its “Top 100 Technology Vendors” list debuted in the July 2002 issue.

Regardless of your position on the use of MERS as a nominee for the lender, creating a shared, accessible database of record is another reason why lenders and servicers have worked diligently to certify the accuracy of the data entered in the MERS database.

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Among Telrock’s lending clients, 40% of borrowers who were contacted through a mobile service paid directly through the device within 30 minutes of receiving the alert.

REO asset manager and loss mitigation provider Green River Capital is enhancing the broker price opinion and appraisal platform its valuation unit, Infinity Valuation Services, uses by utilizing technology from Realty Pilot.

Discover Financial Services has finally closed on its purchase of LendingTree Loans, also known as Home Loan Center, from Tree.com for a total purchase price of $46 million.

CoreLogic will implement a series of changes to its board, including the addition of three independent directors and the announced resignation of board chairman D. Van Skilling.

ISGN’s new CEO took the reins of the mortgage technology and outsourcing provider Monday, marking the first time that the international corporation’s chief executive will be based in the U.S.

Abhinav Asthana of Wipro Gallagher Solutions details the company's new mobile LOS app.

The next step needed to improve the integrity of values in appraisal management is a set of scores for not only the valuations themselves, but also appraisers and specific areas.

Visit the office of John O'Brien, register of deeds in South Essex County, Massachusetts, and he'll eagerly show you stacks and stacks of documents. He calls it a crime scene.

Ellie Mae registered a $60 million primary offering and a secondary offering of 1 million shares of common stock, a move that precedes a potential prospectus filing by the Pleasanton, Calif.-based mortgage technology vendor.