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Churchill Mortgage Goes Digital in Partnership with Infosys

Churchill Mortgage has announced a partnership with Infosys, the India-based information technology giant, “to dynamically change the way it does business in a significant way.” Read more...

Father-Son Mortgage Scammers Get More Prison Time

A judge has ramped up the legal penalties against a New Jersey family for back-to-back schemes that swindled investors out of $7 million. So reports NorthJersey.com. Read more...

Landlord to Pay $63M in Alleged Ponzi Scheme

A court has approved the distribution of more than $63 million to investors in New York real estate developer Robert Morgan’s allegedly fraudulent real estate investment scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced. Read more...

Ask The Expert: Should I Start My Own Mortgage Business?

Irv from New York asks: I have been studying the mortgage business for some time now, as I intend to make a career change in the near future. I am excited by the idea of helping people to purchase or refinance their homes while making a decent living for myself. I would be more interested… Read more...

Black Knight: 9.4M Refi Candidates in the Market

We remain in an environment where even slight changes in interest rates–in either direction–can have an outsized impact on the number of refinance candidates. Read more...

CFPB Letter Signals Changes to QM Rule

Kathy Kraninger, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently sent a letter to Congress outlining the Bureau’s plan for a revised Qualified Mortgage (QM) Standard. Read more...

Lawyer Gets One Year in Prison for Mortgage, Tax Scams

A prominent New Jersey lawyer has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison on his conviction for making false statements in a bank loan application and failing to pay over payroll taxes withheld from employees, according to federal prosecutors. So reports InsiderNJ. Read more...

Banks That Spend More on Tech Make Better Loans: IMF

Banks with bigger information technology budgets fared better during the global financial crisis, according to a new working paper from the International Monetary Fund. So reports Quartz. Read more...

Ex-Wells Fargo CEO Fined $17.5M for Fake-Accounts Scandal

Former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will have to pay a $17.5 million fine for running the bank while it opened millions of fake accounts. So reports USA Today. Read more...

Training and Coaching: How to Keep the Right Staffers

The second most important management rule is keeping the right people. Thus, the key word here is support. Read more...

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