Work from home

Corporate breaches facilitated by employees — often accidentally — rose significantly this year, and banks have been particularly hard hit. Here's why.

With an unusually high number of unknowns to factor in, mortgage industry leaders offer a peek at their playbooks for the next year.

Staying in compliance with the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act has been a difficult task for lenders while employees work from home for months on end.

Former MBA chair and owner, president, and CEO of Union Home Mortgage, Bill Cosgrove, provides a peek into his pandemic playbook and offers advice to smaller lenders on how to stay competitive amid a rash of companies going public.

HUD Deputy Secretary Brian Montgomery questioned "whether we could ever totally accept desktop-only appraisals" at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference this week.

Mortgage companies contended with an average of 1,316 fraud attempts per month in 2020, up from 1,280 in the previous year, according to the latest study by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

What Jason Gardner, founder and CEO of Marqeta, has learned leading a 450-person fintech from home.

The industry has long talked about embracing digital technology — but the time for talk may be over.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact every aspect of life in Napa County, Calif., including housing prices, with many buyers wanting to flee the big city.

Home sales hit a 15-year high in Duluth, Minn., this summer even as inventory hit a 15-year low.

FHA Commissioner Dana Wade offered a preview of ambitions she has for the Federal Housing Administration at a virtual event held by Women in Housing and Finance on Tuesday.

The vibe is pre-COVID San Francisco: Airpods, electric scooters, coffee-shop coworking and cash offers for million-dollar homes.

Many states currently have temporary work-from-home guidance for licensed mortgage professionals that extends through at least Dec. 31, but some have fall expiration dates.

From an increased interest in outdoor space to a need for a dedicated home office, the pandemic has created new drivers for refinancing, moving and other housing decisions, TD Bank found.

New Yorkers fleeing the city and cooped-up workers in cramped home offices are helping fuel a hot home sale market in Connecticut, with properties selling at a dizzying pace.

But federal elections and the pandemic make projections on the sustainability of industry profitability especially tricky.

The decision is the latest development in an ongoing dispute between the shuttered company and its regulator.

Many mortgage companies are hoping to operate remotely through year-end and are asking regulators for relief to that end.

All states that had licensing restrictions related to remote work temporarily lifted them due to the pandemic, but whether those changes could become permanent remains to be seen.