Technology

A pair of automated service providers said Monday they are partnering to provide more granular household-level borrower data within ethnic demographics.

CoreLogic released a tool Monday to let servicers run automated checks on pools of loans to determine if borrowers are protected from foreclosure by the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

More than 10 states recently made legislative and/or regulatory changes related to real estate loans and foreclosures, according to MRG Document Technologies, which regularly tracks such compliance changes.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp., Fishers, Ind., this week hired industry veteran Dan Bettenburg as its new president.

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Technology vendors are responding to the new single point of contact requirement for residential servicers with Web-based portals that give borrowers insight into the loss mitigation process.

Last call to nominate for the 2011 Mortgage Technology Awards. The deadline for submissions to both award programs is Friday, July 1.

A New York state appeals court overturned a ruling in favor of the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, finding Bank of New York did not have standing to initiate a foreclosure.

A large origination and servicing outsourcer for the UK and Ireland mortgage industry launched a private-label online self-service tool for borrowers to monitor their accounts from their lender’s websites.

Two well-known mortgage technologists have taken on new positions—Christos Bettios, formerly a senior product manager overseeing paperless mortgage initiatives at Fannie Mae and Greg Alvord, an active volunteer in the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization and the chair of MISMO’s architecture committee.