Limited regulation and elevated volatility limit current activity, but new offerings are still finding their way to market.

Housing market players navigated big changes, and controversy, as the spring market moved forward.

The New York State Department of Financial Services found the company failed to adequately protect itself from data breaches. Since 2018, OneMain has suffered multiple cybersecurity incidents.

Single-family officials at an industry conference also quantified some of the progress they're making with alternative credit data, and noted that digital validations can help reduce defects.

The company, funded by Calterra Capital and led by the former CEO of lender Avlis Partners, is launching the technology in a space that has limited vendor options.

Starting June 7, the enterprise's platform will be able to analyze pay stub information.

At least $83 million worth of loans were insured by the FHA without lenders following the necessary protocols, the department's inspector general claims.

The regulator, which is seeking to halt the combination, said arguments involving constitutionality of its proceedings are "impertinent" and "immaterial."

Despite the "wow" factor, programs like ChatGPT are not, by themselves, the right tool for anything in the home loan space, argues the Director of Research at FormFree and Associate Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at The University of Georgia.

During a Tuesday hearing, lawmakers talked through how to properly regulate the wide-ranging uses of AI. Some voiced support for forming a new AI agency.

Cases increased at an average of 14.5% from 2021 to 2022, a LexisNexis survey found.

The hackers, on their dark web blog, recently threatened to release supposed company and borrower information if the lender did not pay.

The bank is focusing on pre-seed companies that specialize in fintech or other forms of technology and have diverse founders.

"If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong." Leaders call for government regulation of powerful tech tools.

The tools are there to create a faster loan process, but fear of noncompliance and reliance on old habits still prevail, industry technology leaders said at the Fintech Nexus USA conference this week.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alerted staff this week that text messages had been sent to employee personal phone numbers claiming to be from Director Rohit Chopra.

New products that have come to market since the start of 2023 include one that aims to ensure TRID compliance and another that handles image processing for appraisals.

Lenders used the firm's software in nearly a quarter of originations in the second half of last year, up from 14% over the same period in 2021.

The incident affecting the information of 1,361 customers is a rare disclosure of a data breach from a top mortgage lender and servicer.

Both tools are currently in use by eligible customers with waitlists open to others who are interested.