Technology

The average number of attempts to defraud mortgage companies each month increased by 42% this year and hit the smallest businesses hardest, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Loan origination system provider Ellie Mae has agreed to purchase mortgage technology firm Capsilon, citing the growing appeal of artificial intelligence-driven automation and interest in becoming more active as an acquirer.

Ginnie Mae is looking for input on its proposed guidelines for electronic promissory notes and other mortgage documents that it plans to test through a digital collateral pilot.

PointPredictive has rolled out IncomePASS, which uses machine learning technology to determine if the borrower's income as stated on the application is realistic.

Figure Technologies, which has made $600 million in home equity loans in the past year, says its next move will be refinancing student loans.

The National Credit Union Administration has unveiled a proposal to address a federal judge's concerns that its 2016 field-of-membership overhaul could discourage lending in low-income areas.

Denver beat out Salt Lake City to snag another technology firm looking to escape the Bay Area's escalating costs.

The government-sponsored enterprises are moving ahead with a new mortgage application that omits a previously planned language question, but are looking to serve limited English proficiency borrowers in another way.

The credit union regulator has spent 20 years asking lawmakers for greater oversight of third-party vendors. Here's why it might finally happen.

The next phase of the digital mortgage revolution is starting and lenders need to use a holistic process to create their plans in order to get up to speed.