The Mortgage Bankers Association is investing $2 million to support the creation of online notary standards and several other initiatives.

Mortgage lenders are being forced to evaluate expenses carefully when deciding whether buying or building technology is the right move.

Lenders must do more to address the safety of borrowers' personal information as digital mortgage strategies spread and regulatory scrutiny increases.

A newer set of issues and opportunities presents itself for those embracing technology, involving everything from business strategy to cybersecurity.

Commercial and multifamily lending lags the technology available in the residential market. A look at how one expert thinks the gap could be closed.

Banks will likely continue to exercise caution in the wake of Facebook's announcement that it’s restricting the way providers of housing, employment and credit advertise on its site.

The Federal Housing Administration is returning to manual reviews of higher-risk loans it insures because it's finding that a growing share have lower credit scores, higher debt-to-income ratios, or both.

PanoramIQ compiles and analyzes both public and proprietary property data, saving mortgage lenders time and costs by filling the gaps in property histories.

Software startups say bringing borrowers, builders and lenders onto one digital platform can remove some of the risks lenders faced during the crisis.

Technologies like Siri and Alexa will only make mortgage production more efficient if users communicate with them precisely and securely.

A subsidiary of digital-media company Beta Music Group is linking its origination support technology with Arive's online platform, which connects mortgage brokers to lenders, borrowers and third-party vendors.

Borrowers were more than twice as likely to use a lender they found online in 2018 as they were in 2017, making search engines the mortgage industry's top source of referrals.

The 2020 budget would add the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and FSOC to congressional appropriations, charge lenders for FHA upgrades and require universities to have skin in the game on student loans.

A patchwork of state laws makes it tough for lenders to adopt electronic notarization, but they'll need to if they want to make a fully digital mortgage a reality.

Freddie Mac is broadly offering instant representation and warranty relief for automatically validated self-employment income following a test of the concept last year.

AI Foundry is aiming to further cut the time it takes to originate a mortgage by adding artificial intelligence tools designed to improve on optical character recognition.

Whether through greater investments in technology and talent, or streamlining back-end processes to improve the decision-making process, mortgage servicers are doing more to prioritize borrowers. Here's a look at seven of these borrower-focused initiatives and how they're reshaping mortgage servicing.

The Money Source has filed three provisional patent applications as part of its efforts to develop new innovations in mortgage servicing, including the use of blockchain technology.

Figure, the startup headed by Mike Cagney, uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans in as little as five days. It intends to use the newly raised funds to offer other services, including wealth management.

The root of the credit reporting sector’s problems may be its dominance by a handful of big firms, lawmakers from both parties said at a hearing.