Technology

Changes by the National Labor Relations Board ease the tension between one agency requiring lenders to monitor their social media presence and their employees' free speech rights.

While the majority of lenders feel mortgage industry data initiatives have been valuable, their cost is clouding some originators' viewpoint, a Fannie Mae survey found.

LoanDepot Inc., a mortgage lender basing its growth around digital applications, isn't giving up on humans' role in the home-buying process just yet.

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney has cited hundreds of confirmed and suspected data breaches as justification for his halting the bureau's data collection activities last month.

A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to make it easier and less costly to track home mortgages packaged into securities.

The CFPB's recent freeze on collecting any personally identifiable information from companies it supervises is slowing investigations and could ultimately cripple the agency's enforcement function — and that may be the point.

CMG Financial is offering a new affinity marketing portal on its crowdfunding platform for down payments and positioning it as a way for employers to retain millennials.

The two senators are set to introduce a bill that would force such firms to pay $100 per customer whose personal information was compromised.

Situs agreed Friday to buy mortgage servicing rights valuation and brokerage firm MountainView Financial Solutions in a deal set to close this month.

Startups that have developed the technology for real estate finance are starting to conduct a broader array of transactions, including property sales.