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Emerging Trends in Mortgage Lending: Navigating the Landscape with Confidence Explore the emerging trends in mortgage lending, including digital platforms, data-driven decisions, green lending, and regulatory changes, and how they are reshaping the industry.
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Corelogic Delivers Digitized Verification Tools
Corelogic is automating some what it considers the most manual, time consuming and expensive underwriting processes—through a single interface—AutomatIQ Borrower. It’s a comprehensive underwriting solution designed to help lenders streamline workflows by digitizing, standardizing and automating borrower analysis and verification. Corelogics has placed all of the borrower verification tools together into one interface. Clients will… Read more...
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Open Doors Names It Award Winners
The Mortgage Bankers Association names the recipients of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation annual awards, which recognize those who have made lasting contributions to advance the Foundation's mission of providing mortgage and rental assistance grants to parents and guardians caring for a critically ill or injured child. The Foundation presented its annual Community Champion Award… Read more...
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MBA’s New Chairman Outlines His Vision
[Please Note: These are prepared remarks of Chris George, who was sworn in as chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association, during its 2018 Annual Convention and Expo in Washington, D.C., which ended on Wednesday. He is the president and CEO of CMG Financial.] It is fitting that I step into the role as your 2019… Read more...
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Mortgage Applications Dip
Mortgage applications drop 7.1 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 12, 2018. This week's results didn't include adjustment for the Columbus Day holiday. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 7.1 percent on a… Read more...
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FHFA, Fannie and Freddie Launch Mortgage Translations
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae have launched Mortgage Translations, a centralized clearinghouse of online resources to assist lenders, servicers, housing counselors, and other real estate professionals in serving limited English proficient borrowers. LEP borrowers make up a growing share of today’s mortgage market, a trend that is likely to continue… Read more...
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Radian Rebrands Its Companies Under One Radian Model
Radian currently operates as a family of companies that includes Radian Guaranty, Radian Reinsurance, Clayton Holdings, Green River Capital, ValuAmerica, Entitle Direct, and Red Bell Real Estate. Going forward these companies will operate under the new Radian brand. The rebranding reflects the company’s strategy to offer more than just individual solutions through silos. “Unlike traditional… Read more...
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Wells-eOriginal Deal Could Mean Wider E-Note Adoption
Wells Fargo Home Lending will now be using e-Original’s e-vault platform to accept e-notes as collateral. The decision to deploy the platform could tip the balance in favor of widespread industry adoption of the technology. One of the factors driving the the lack of adoption—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accepted e-mortgages, but few investors did--was… Read more...
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Flagstar Unveils New Products, Tech Plans; Fratantoni: Origination Volume to Rise 4.2%
Flagstar Unveils New Products, Tech Plans Flagstar has unveiled some new lending products and plans some digital mortgage initiatives in 2019. “Flagstar Last Friday rolled out some new products. A standalone HELOC for brokers and correspondents. Also, it began offering construction jumbo fixed and adjustable rate mortgage loans,” said Kristy Fercho, president of mortgage for… Read more...
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MIAC Names New Head of Borrower Analytics
The Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp. has hired Dick Kazarian to serve as director of the borrower analytics group. MIAC provides pricing, risk management and accounting solutions to mortgage and financial services companies. Kazarian has more than 20 years of experience in designing, developing, validating, and marketing quantitative models. These include empirical behavioral models across a… Read more...
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Real Estate Investment Funds, Executives Facing Federal Charges
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against two real estate investment funds and four executives in connection with their alleged roles in misleading investors by failing to disclose that it could not pay its distributions and was using money from a newer fund to pay distributions to investors in the older fund. Also,… Read more...
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