A new tool checks Department of Defense records to verify whether defaulted mortgage borrowers are actively serving in the military, providing a regulatory compliance check for servicers while staying within the confines of department policies.

A new tool checks Department of Defense records to verify whether defaulted mortgage borrowers are actively serving in the military, providing a regulatory compliance check for servicers while staying within the confines of department policies.

FICO launched an analytic advance that substantially improves lenders’ ability to identify borrowers at risk of strategic default on mortgages.

Calyx Software says it has resolved an issue with its point of sale software that was causing some entries on the Good Faith Estimate disclosure document to disappear.

The head of a county land registry in Massachusetts is requesting his office close its deposit account with Bank of America in protest of the bank’s affiliation with MERSCorp Inc., which runs the Mortgage Electronic Registry System.

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The initial public offering registration papers that online real estate and mortgage search company Zillow filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday revealed five resolved or ongoing legal complaints since Oct. 2009—all patent infringement claims against the Seattle-based company.

Auction.com plans to put out for bid at least two commercial real estate loan packages per month for the next three months totaling more than $1.86 billion.

Real estate listing and mortgage rate search website company Zillow registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, seeking to raise $51.75 million from the initial public offering of its common stock.

To many in the industry, federal regulators just gave Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems a big stamp of approval.

CoreLogic paid $75.8 million on Monday to repurchase 4 million shares of its common stock from its former parent company, First American Financial Corp., according to Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures.

Ellie Mae priced its initial public offering at $6 per share Thursday evening, raising $45 million for the Pleasanton, Calif.-based mortgage technology vendor.

Mortgage technology vendor Ellie Mae registered its common stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday morning, lowering not only its initial public offering price, but the amount of money it hopes to raise in the capital markets.

Federal banking regulators Wednesday afternoon dropped their regulatory "bomb" on the nation's largest residential servicers — and two of their top outside vendors — accusing the firms of a "pattern of negligence and misconduct" tied to the processing of loans.

Davis + Henderson, Toronto, said it raised $122 million in a secondary share offering, which the financial services firm used to finance its acquisition of online mortgage origination provider Mortgagebot.

CoreLogic’s FinalCheck suite of quality control software is now accessible from the Ellie Mae loan origination system.

TitleServ National, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based provider of title insurance, appraisal and settlement services, apparently exited the business on April 8, according to industry sources.

CoreLogic hired 25-year mortgage industry veteran Arlene Hyde to the newly created position of senior vice president of strategic relationships for its Business and Information Services division.

After being rejected for a loan modification, Carla Ghosn decided to build a website that would tell borrowers if they qualified for the government's Home Affordable Modification Program.

Fannie Mae has confirmed that it’s looking to outsource at least some of its technology chores to third-party vendors and sent out a “request for proposal” but isn't saying much beyond that.