Bill Neville Joins LoanLogics as President and Chief Operating Officer
Financial services veteran Bill Neville is the new president and chief operating officer at LoanLogics, which offers loan quality management and performance analytics to...
Hippo Insurance Now Integrated with LendingQB
Hippo Insurance, a California-based "insurtech" company, is now integrated with LendingQB’s loan origination system (LOS), thus making ordering home insurance easier for mortgage lenders...
PHH Corp. Settles with States over Alleged Mortgage Servicing Violations
Mortgage lender and servicer settles in order to put "legacy" issues behind it.
FICS Updates Loan Producer for New HMDA Requirements
Mortgage software firm Financial Industry Computer Systems Inc. (FICS) recently completed a final set of enhancements to its Loan Producer loan origination system (LOS)...
Fed Raises Rates 0.25%, Longer-Term Policy Unchanged
Citing that the “labor market has continued to strengthen” and that “economic activity has been rising at a solid rate,” the Federal Open Market...
DocMagic Opens High-Tech Print Facility to Help Handle ‘Fallout’
In a move that might seem antithetical to its mission of helping mortgage lenders achieve a fully digital mortgage process, DocMagic, a provider of...
Tax Servicing an ‘Intricate Part of the Loan Servicing Industry’
There are more than 24,000 tax agencies or taxing authorities across the country - each with its own rules, processes and guidelines.
Alex Kolodner: Compliance Needs Will Continue to Drive the Mortgage Industry
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Alex Kolodner is client operations manager for IndiSoft, a provider of compliance software to the mortgage industry.
MortgageOrb recently interviewed Kolodner...
Federal Judge Rules Mulvaney Can Lead CFPB For Now
A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request for a restraining order from Leandra English - Richard Cordray’s pick to serve as acting director...
Waterstone Mortgage Using Continuity for Compliance Management
Waterstone Mortgage, a wholly owned subsidiary of WaterStone Bank, with assets of more than $1.8 billion, has selected Continuity for its compliance management needs.
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Sen. Warren, PCCC and Allies to Protest Outside CFPB Headquarters
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. - who helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the wake of the financial crisis that started in...
Richard Cordray Stepping Down as Director of the CFPB
Richard Cordray is reportedly stepping down as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), effective at the end of this month.
According to a...
Potestivo & Associates Promotes Art Sriratana to Supervising Attorney
Art Sriratana has been promoted to supervising attorney at Potestivo & Associates PC, a law firm serving the mortgage industry.
Sriratana first joined Potestivo &...
First American Launches New API Platform That Spans the Spectrum
To help lenders and fintechs achieve digital transformation more quickly, First American Mortgage Solutions recently unveiled a new API platform that it has dubbed...
PathSoftware’s LOS Now Integrated with ComplianceAnalyzer
PathSoftware’s loan origination system (LOS) is now integrated with ComplianceAnalyzer, an automated compliance solution from ComplianceEase.
As such, users of PathSoftware’s LOS can now automatically...
UWM Offering Single Source Validation via Fannie Mae Pilot Program
Mortgage brokers doing business with United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) are among the first in the country with access to a more streamlined origination process,...
Carson: HUD Will Review Enforcement Practices For FHA-Backed Loans
Dr. Ben Carson, director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on Monday told attendees at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA)...
Mel Watt: Need For Housing Finance Reform Becoming More Urgent
Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), on Monday once again sounded the alarm on housing finance reform, telling attendees at...
HUD Using CoreLogic’s Valuation and Disposition Services to Protect MMI Fund
CoreLogic has been selected to provide the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with valuation and workflow solutions to mitigate losses to...
LoanScorecard’s AUS Now Integrated with QuestSoft’s Compliance Software
LoanScorecard's automated underwriting system, Portfolio Underwriter, is now integrated with QuestSoft’s Compliance EAGLE software platform.
Compliance EAGLE, which can be integrated out-of-the-box with most of...