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New entrants in the market may believe: “We’re doing everything right. Fraud isn’t a problem, and we have a fraud alert tool in place anyway.” This, of course, is exactly when fraud risk grows, warns Paul Harris of First American Data & Analytics.

By applying what has been learned in the past year, mortgage providers can ensure they will be better positioned to take on more loans and grow their business, EarnUp CEO and co-founder Nadim Homsany writes

The UWM ultimatum cuts at the very foundation of why the brokerage channel exists, writes Jack Yoest of Catholic University's Busch School of Business.

And there are some brawls on the field affecting the direction of business for the rest of this year.

HUD must stop localities from excluding manufactured homes from their communities, writes Lesli McCullum Gooch, chief executive officer of the Manufactured Housing Institute.

While many lenders have verification processes and systems of record in place for their structured data, they lack digital solutions capable of addressing the volume of customer data from documents that create a broad area of vulnerability for them, writes Reggie Twigg, director of digital enterprise at ABBYY.

Just because the Fed is staying put doesn’t mean that mortgage rates, and prices of MBS, are staying put as well, writes Vice Capital Markets Principal Chris Bennett.

“Two clicks or less” needs to become the mantra for the mortgage industry as it confronts the digital challenges that have kept it mired in the world of costly and cumbersome phone-based customer support, J.D. Power’s Jim Houston writes.

Both in terms of interest expense and the sheer cost of dealing with consumers, the mortgage industry is out hundreds of millions of dollars due to this unfunded mandate from Congress, analyst Chris Whalen says.

The reduction currently under consideration by the Biden Administration would lead to even faster home price appreciation, especially in areas with moderate FHA presence, American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Director of Research Tobias Peter says.