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Optimal Blue Adds New Feature to PPE That Automates Best Efforts Locks

Secondary marketing software firm Optimal Blue has introduced a “first-of-its-kind automation” that could change how lenders handle best efforts locks. The new enhancement to the...

SettlementOne Teams With Truv to Launch Comprehensive Asset Verification Solution

SettlementOne, a provider of credit reporting and mortgage verification services, has expanded its partnership with Truv, a provider of real-time income and employment verification...

First American Adds Generative AI Tool to AgentNet Platform

First American Title has launched its AgentNet Assist Generative AI tool, which enhances productivity for title agents. The addition of this tool means industry-leading underwriting...

Embrace Home Loans Promotes Brian Woltman to Senior Vice President

Brian Woltman has been promoted to senior vice president at Embrace Home Loans, a top-ranked national mortgage lender. In addition, Woltman has been inducted into...

Finastra Now Integrated With Halcyon

Mortgage software provider Finastra is now integrated with Halcyon, thus enabling seamless digital management of IRS Form 8821 authorizations within Finastra’s Mortgagebot solution. The integration provides...

Friday Harbor Taps Chris Simms, Gregory Buehler for Their ‘Deep Domain Knowledge’

Chris Simms has joined Friday Harbor, an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, as head...

BlackFin Launches New Program Giving Lenders Instant Access to Mortgage Experts For Less

Mortgage consultancy BlackFin has launched a new program that gives mortgage lenders instant access to advisors without the hefty consulting price tag. The firm’s new...

Atlas VMS Taps Mick Tindall as CTO and President, Platform Solutions

Mick Tindall has joined valuation management company Atlas VMS as chief technology officer and president, platform solutions. The announcement comes just weeks after the company...

Logan Finance Promotes Dave Weatherford to EVP of TPO Production

Dave Weatherford has been promoted to executive vice president of TPO production at non-QM lender Logan Finance Corp. The promotion follows Logan Finance’s launch of...

Planet Home Lending’s Correspondent Sellers Can Gain Efficiency Boost With E-Notes

Planet Home Lending reports that it is boosting speed and efficiency for its correspondent sellers through its acceptance of e-notes. Planet accepts electronic promissory notes...

MeridianLink Hires Denise Cox as Chief Customer Officer

Denise Cox has joined MeridianLink, a provider of cloud-based lending and account opening solutions for financial institutions, as chief customer officer. Cox has more than...

Blend, Doma Technologies Expand Their Partnership

Blend Labs and Doma Technologies have announced an expanded partnership that will bring Doma’s AI-powered instant title decisioning to more lenders through Blend’s home...

Planet Home Lending Taps Chris Carr as Minnesota Area Sales Manager

Mortgage industry veteran Chris Carr has joined Planet Home Lending as an area sales manager in Minnesota. Carr has nearly 30 years of mortgage industry...

Friday Harbor Now Offers Open APIs Enabling Integration With Any LOS Vendor

Friday Harbor, an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, has launched open APIs to give...

Usherpa’s CRM Platform Now Integrated With Wilqo’s LOS

Usherpa, which offers a customer relationship engagement platform designed for mortgage lenders, is now integrated with Wilqo’s new Production Optimization Platform, which combines POS,...

Informative Research Adds Halcyon’s IRS Tax Transcript Service to its IR Verification Platform

Credit data and verification solutions provider Informative Research has announced availability of Halcyon's IRS tax transcript service within the IR Verification Platform. The enhancement expands...

Mortgage Connect, Westcor Team Up on Fannie Mae Title Acceptance Pilot

Mortgage service provider Mortgage Connect is partnering with Westcor Land Title Insurance Company and X1 Analytics to develop a product for Fannie Mae’s Title...

ACES Announces Two Key Promotions in Compliance

Amanda Phillips has been named general counsel and executive vice president of compliance for ACES Quality Management, while Savannah Prout has been elevated to...

Dark Matter Technologies Achieves UCDP Integration

Dark Matter Technologies has established an integration with the Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP) jointly maintained by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The integration enables...

SettlementOne Integrates FICO Score Mortgage Simulator Into its Suite of Lending Tools

SettlementOne, offering credit reporting, data and verification solutions for the mortgage industry, is partnering FICO to integrate the FICO Score Mortgage Simulator into its...