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Union Home Mortgage Hires Erin Stark to Oversee Texas Branches

Erin Stark has joined Union Home Mortgage (UHM), an independent mortgage banking company with more than 150 branches across the U.S., as regional manager...

Candor Technology Launches First-Ever Loan Quality Services Underwriting Engine

To further help its clients transform their business models, Candor Technology has introduced its first-ever automated underwriting engine for loan quality services (LQS). This will enable...

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach Hire Casey Martin as Chief Revenue Officer

Casey Martin has joined Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach as chief revenue officer. Martin is an experienced sales and go-to-market leader with a track record...

Path Software Adds Third-Party Origination Functionality to its Loan Origination System

Path Software has added a new TPO capability to its LOS. Known as Path TPO, the new functionality enables clients to quickly and inexpensively enter...

Non-QM Lender Logan Finance Using OptifiNow TPO CRM

Non-QM lender Logan Finance is using OptifiNow TPO, a CRM platform designed for wholesale lenders, to rapidly scale its wholesale team and quickly roll...

Kathryn Edelen, Lynette Hale-Lee Promoted at Planet Home Lending

Planet Home Lending, a national mortgage originator and servicer, has promoted Kathryn Edelen to eastern divisional manager and Lynette Hale-Lee to western divisional manager. ...

FirstClose Hires James Bolger as Chief Financial Officer

James Bolger has joined FirstClose, Inc., a provider of data and workflow solutions for mortgage and home equity lenders, as chief financial officer.  Bolger has...

Cherre Teams With Clear Capital to Expand Access to Market and Property Data for...

Cherre, a data integration and insights platform, is partnering with Clear Capital, a provider of valuation technology, to allow Cherre customers to leverage Clear...

Kennelly Joins Mortgage Capital Trading as Senior Director, Investor Services

Jennifer Kennelly recently joined Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT) as the new senior director of the firm’s quickly expanding investor services team.  Kennelly has 25 years...

Polly PPE Integrated with Mortgage Coach

Mortgage Coach, a platform empowering mortgage lenders to educate borrowers with interactive home loan presentations, is now integrated with Polly, a provider of SaaS...

Tavant Integration with Experian Drives Mortgage Application Efficiency

Tavant, a Silicon Valley-based provider of digital lending solutions, and Experian, a global information services company, have integrated Experian’s Enhanced Instant Form Fill for...

Waterstone Mortgage Promotes Brian Wesselhoff to CIO

Brian Wesselhoff has been promoted to chief information officer at Waterstone Mortgage. In his new role as CIO, Wesselhoff will lead Waterstone Mortgage’s many technology...

Marlin Mortgage Signs LOI to Acquire LoanFront

Marlin Manager LLC’s Marlin Mortgage Holdings LLC has entered into a letter of intent to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity of LoanFront LLC,...

Factual Data Integrates Credit Reporting System with Abrigo Solutions

Factual Data, a provider of credit and verification services to the lending industry, has integrated its credit reporting services with Abrigo, a financial technology...

Mortgage Center Adds Mortgage Cadence LOS to Origination Platform

Mortgage Center, a mortgage lender for the credit union community, has selected Accenture subsidiary Mortgage Cadence’s Mortgage Cadence Platform (MCP) as its loan origination...

MBA Promotes Joel Kan to Vice President, Deputy Chief Economist

Joel Kan has been promoted to vice president, deputy chief economist, at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Kan was previously associate vice president of economic...

FirstClose Taps Mortgage Industry Veteran Carol Crawford as CMO

Mortgage industry veteran Carol Crawford has joined FirstClose Inc., a provider of data and workflow solutions for mortgage and home equity lenders nationwide, as...

MonitorBase Promotes Lilly Staniforth to Vice President of Business Relations

Lilly Staniforth has been promoted to vice president of business relations at MonitorBase, a mortgage fintech company that monitors prescreened credit information and real-time...

PennyMac Appoints Jerry Halbrook as Chief Mortgage Innovation Officer

PennyMac Financial Services Inc. has named Jerry Halbrook as chief mortgage innovation officer. He will develop and launch new technology solutions, preparing the company...

Ross Mortgage Expands to Tennessee

Ross Mortgage Corp., a full-service residential mortgage lender headquartered in Troy, Mich., has launched a new location in Nashville that will be led by...