Technology
Technology
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As other types of risk mitigation multiply, rewarding borrowers for continuing to pay on underwater assets continues to quietly gain traction.
September 12 -
Mortgage bankers saw new applications spike by 11% for the week ending Sept. 7—thanks to continued low interest rates.
September 12 -
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. wrote $2.5 billion of new insurance policies in August, a 4% increase from the month prior.
September 12 -
Astoria Financial has already originated more multifamily and commercial real estate loans this year than it did in all of last year.
September 12 -
Distressed asset liquidation timelines will continue to coerce the decision making process for both lender-servicers and homeowners.
September 11 -
Bankers are mounting their support for national efforts to build up a much-needed financial literacy foundation.
September 11 -
Integra Group Real Estate expanded its property management services to now provide inspections for vacant rental and real estate-owned properties.
September 11 -
Cashmere Valley is turning to outsourcing to help make sense of the complicated legislation that after two years is still developing as provisions get delayed, clarified or rewritten. For banks with assets of less than $10 billion, it's not even clear which parts of the law apply.
September 10 -
3Rivers Federal Credit Union in Fort Wayne, Ind. will use the Web-based end-to-end loan origination system developed by LendingQB.
September 10 -
Wells continued to be an origination powerhouse in the second quarter, funding $131 billion of new home mortgages and setting yet another record in quarterly market share.
September 10 -
Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the correlation between rising student loan debt and its impact on household formation and mortgage originations.
September 10 -
Nationally, 18% of residential borrowers who are current on their loan payments are underwater, ranging from a low of 0.4% in Wyoming to 55% in Nevada.
September 10 -
You ask for their opinions of your work and they gave them. How you respond, not if, could cement the relationship.
September 7 -
Radian Group, MGIC Investment Corp. and Genworth Financial—saw substantial increases in their stock prices Friday, one day after Radian released robust monthly results.
September 7 -
The gain-on-sale mortgage juggernaut of the past few quarters will continue for banks, according to Credit Suisse.
September 7 -
Banks are spending lots of money fighting fraud, but security experts say they could do better when it comes to mitigating fraud and detecting money laundering.
September 7 -
Mortgage firms added 1,300 new workers to their payrolls during July with loan brokers leading the hiring spree.
September 7 -
Six years after the bottom dropped out of the housing market, builders are finally starting to reclaim their traditional share of home sales, but challenges remain.
September 7 -
Fannie Mae is getting closer to picking a technology vendor that could takeover large swaths of its processing chores.
September 7 -
Guarantors that are members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America broke the $10 billion market in new policies written for July.
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