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After years of plowing resources into compliance projects, mortgage lenders surveyed by National Mortgage News are foregrounding core business initiatives in their plans for the coming year. High on to-do lists are projects aimed at improving the customer experience and seizing new business opportunities.

Accurately capturing mortgage data to meet new federal regulators is a top challenge for banks and credit unions, according to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.

2016 Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina telegraphs a message that the mortgage industry would do well to heed.

To better serve millennial mortgage customers, lenders would be helped by understanding how the "fear of missing out" mentality drives this generation's consumer culture.

The Asian Real Estate Association of America has launched a two-year partnership with Radian Group's mortgage insurance unit.

There is no universal definition of "TRID-ready," but any vendor claiming it's prepared for the new integrated disclosures should allow lenders to test the changes. Here's what to look for, and the red flags that should be cause for concern.

Mortgage companies must rethink their recruitment strategies and emphasize company culture to attract millennials, or they will become the banks they once worked to replace.

Regulators are unsympathetic to lender losses created by loan officer mistakes, but even with a close reading of compensation rules, a compliant path is still unclear.

Lenders must leverage a variety of tools, from Boomer parents to mobile technology to connect and engage with millennial mortgage borrowers.

As marketing services agreements increasingly fall out of favor, a more level playing field may emerge where loan officers must aggressively compete on their skill and service to win referral business.