Technology

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped an investigation into Altisource, a mortgage servicing technology firm with close ties to Ocwen Financial.

Since taking office in November of last year, acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney's actions have sparked outrage from his critics seemingly at every turn, including several times just last week.

Ellie Mae's first-quarter net income of a little over $2 million was lower than last year's due to some one-time expenses, but continuing operations numbers exceeded analysts' expectations.

Mortgage industry vendors' earnings varied based on the effectiveness of the strategies they used to contend with origination declines and other factors.

WEI Mortgage discovered a data breach from an email phishing scam last fall that may have exposed loan package information and identifying data such as Social Security numbers.

The agency's acting chief said hundreds of data breaches justified a halt on collecting information from firms, but experts question that logic.

A data validation integration Freddie Mac is adding to its technology platform could also deliver representation and warranty relief to lenders when it verifies self-employed borrowers' incomes.

The news of the data breach cast a shadow over relatively strong first-quarter earnings for the Atlanta bank.

Mortgage companies should model cybersecurity protocols after their compliance strategies to avoid being underprepared in the event of a data breach.

From the latest developments in digital mortgages to information about agency technology implementation, here's a look at eight things we learned at the 2018 MBA Tech conference.