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MortgageHippo Integrated With Polly

Polly, which offers a product and pricing engine (PPE), is now integrated with MortgageHippo, which offers a point-of-sale (POS) solution for mortgage lenders. This means...

Paul Gorske Leads Technology Efforts for SWBC Mortgage

SWBC Mortgage Corp. has named Paul Gorske as the company’s new chief technology officer (CTO), bringing 20 years of experience in IT leadership positions. Most...

Promontory MortgagePath Hires John Gust as Director of Product Management

John Gust has joined Promontory MortgagePath, a provider of digital mortgage and fulfillment solutions, as director of product management. Gust has more than 18 years...

New Closing Fee Calculator From LodeStar Integrated With Encompass

LodeStar Software Solutions, a national provider of closing fee-related compliance tools for mortgage lenders, has launched LodeStar Connect, a closing fee calculator for mortgage...

Vice Capital Markets Releases New API for Freddie Mac Cash Purchase Statement

Vice Capital Markets, a mortgage hedge advisory firm for independent lenders, banks and credit unions, says it is one of the first Freddie Mac-integrated...

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Adds to its Team of Originators 

Mortgage industry veteran Scott Bristol has joined Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. as senior vice president, sales and recruiting, while Brian Chick has been hired...

Eleven Mortgage Using OptifiNow Wholesale-Centric CRM Platform

Eleven Mortgage, the wholesale division of Benchmark Mortgage, is now using OptifiNow’s wholesale-centric CRM platform. "OptifiNow has all of the features we were looking for,"...

Exceleras and Calque Form Strategic Partnership

Calque, which offers the Trade-In Mortgage solution, is now using Exceleras’ software to manage the disposition of real estate added into its portfolio. Specifically, Calque...

Harry Gunsallus, Amy Apuzzo Join Liberty Bank

Harry Gunsallus has joined Liberty Bank, one of the oldest and largest mutual banks in the U.S., as senior vice president, digital strategy officer...

Panorama Mortgage Group Integrates Lone Peak Lending

Lone Peak Lending has joined the Panorama Mortgage Group (PMG) family, a multi-brand national mortgage company headquartered in Nevada. Donovan Stamps will lead the...

HomeScout Partners with FormFree to Launch HomeScout Qualified Borrower

FormFree has partnered with HomeScout, a wholly owned subsidiary of FirstClose, to launch HomeScout Qualified Borrower, a tool that helps lenders generate leads and...

Accurate Group Verified as Freddie Mac ACE+ PDR Software Provider

Appraisal management firm Accurate Group is now verified to support Freddie Mac’s ACE+ PDR (automated collateral evaluation plus property data report) product, giving lenders...

Keller Mortgage Deploys Mortgage Coach Enterprise-Wide 

Keller Mortgage, the mortgage lending arm of Keller Williams Realty, has made Mortgage Coach available to its loan officers enterprise-wide. Mortgage Coach is a platform...

Executive Leadership Changes at nCino

Matt Hansen is the new chief product officer of nCino, which offers cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry. In...

Garris Horn Adds David G. Ross as Litigation Partner

David G. Ross has joined Garris Horn LLP, a boutique, virtual law firm focused on federal financial regulation, including TILA/RESPA/TRID, as litigation partner. Ross has...

Renaissance Home Loans Taps Darren Russell as VP of Business Development

Mortgage industry veteran Darren Russell has joined Renaissance Home Loans, a South Florida-based mortgage originator, as vice president of business development. Russell was most recently...

OSB Community Bank Adds Nexus Closing by SimpleNexus to Support Hybrid Closings

 OSB Community Bank, an Illinois-chartered commercial bank with loan officers operating out of branches in Ottawa, Marseilles and Morris, Ill., is now using Nexus...

Non-QM Wholesale Lender Emporium TPO Using OptifNow for CRM, Marketing Automation

Emporium TPO, a non-QM wholesale lender headed by mortgage banking veterans Steve Nadon and Daniel Goodwin, is now using OptifiNow as its marketing automation...

Exceleras Promotes Tom Simon to CEO

Tom Simon is the new CEO at Exceleras, which provides software that accelerates property disposition to mortgage servicers and the REO agents and vendors...

Class Valuation Completes Verification Process for Freddie Mac Solution

Class Valuation reports that it has completed the verification process for Freddie Mac’s new ACE+ PDR (automated collateral valuation plus property data report) solution. These...