Mortgage technology

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization is working with stakeholders to come up with a common means of handling new tax transcript authorization requirements in the Taxpayers First Act.

The pursuit of a more digital mortgage business always involves a balancing act between the drive for automation and the preference or need many consumers may have for some kind of personal touch.

The monthly volume of new mortgage securities insured by Ginnie Mae remained higher than it has been in more than two years in July, rising slightly on a consecutive-month basis.

Most digital transformation efforts concentrate on loan origination technology and do not deal with the costs incurred in the settlement and closing process.

Discover Bank is approaching $1 billion in home equity-related receivables, a milestone for the six-year-old home-loan division that aims to rework the lending process for both its customers and loan officers.

Lenders looking to keep up with the competition should adopt a digital mortgage process because a key borrower segment and the government-sponsored enterprises increasingly expect them to offer one.

Title insurers benefited from the increase in origination volume — especially refinancings — during the second quarter, as open order counts increased compared with one year prior.

The real estate industry may soon find out whether house hunters will look for homes in the place where they already shop for everything else.

With retaining and maintaining customers being a perpetual challenge for independent mortgage brokers, Home Point Financial launched a technology platform to bolster recapture rates.

Mortgage lenders continue prioritizing technology efforts over all else in hopes of tackling a slew of market hurdles and threats, according to Fannie Mae.