ClosingCorp’s SmartFees Now Integrated With PCLender’s LOS
ClosingCorp, a provider of residential real estate closing cost data and technology for the mortgage and real estate services industries, says that its SmartFees...
Bethpage Federal Credit Union Opts For The FirstClose Report
FirstClose, an Austin, Texas-based aggregator of mortgage settlement services, says that Bethpage Federal Credit Union has selected The FirstClose Report to obtain instantaneous title...
Fannie Mae Giving Lenders Rep And Warranty Relief Via DU Validation
Day 1 Certainty initiative to provide clients with freedom from representations and warranties on certain aspects of the mortgage origination process.
Genworth Financial To Be Acquired By Beijing-Based Holding Company
Company officials at Genworth say the acquisition will provide shareholders with greater value than other actionable alternatives.
First American Now Has U.S. Property Ownership Data 100% Covered
First American Financial Corp., a nationwide provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions, reports that it has reached an industry first: 100%...
Flatirons’ Risk Management System Now Integrated With Resitrader’s Whole Loan Platform
Flatirons’ FCM Risk Management system will be fully integrated with Resitrader’s mortgage loan trading platform, enabling clients of both firms to sell their loans...
Vantage Production And InSellerate Team Up To Empower Consumer Direct Lenders
Vantage Production and InSellerate have teamed up to introduce LoanCurve, a new software solution that combines the power of InSellerate's consumer direct lead and...
Synechron Using Paradatec’s OCR Technology To Help Lenders Rein In Data Extraction Costs
Synechron Inc., a global consulting and technology innovator in the financial services industry, and Paradatec, offering free-form document classification and data extraction, are teaming...
The Work Number Now Integrated With Roostify
The Work Number, an employment and income verification service from Equifax, is now integrated with Roostify's mortgage processing platform.
This means lenders that use Roostify...
Black Knight Integrates With New GSE Tools In Support Of UCD
Black Knight Financial Services reports that its LoanSphere Empower and LoanSphere LendingSpace loan origination systems can now be directly integrated with the latest government-sponsored...
Freddie Mac: Mortgage Interest Rates Are Back On The Rise
Mortgage interest rates increased for a second consecutive week, with the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) hitting 3.52%, up from 3.47%,...
First-Time Home Buyers Help Lift Existing-Home Sales In September
Existing-home sales rebounded in September, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.47 million - an increase of 3.2% compared with a downwardly revised...
LendingQB President Resigns To ‘Pursue Other Endeavors’
Binh Dang, president of loan origination software provider LendingQB, has reportedly resigned from his post to "pursue other professional endeavors."
An email obtained by MortgageOrb...
NTC Launches New Streamlined Assignment Verification Service
Nationwide Title Clearing (NTC) recently introduced a new, shortened version of its Assignment Verification Report (AVR) called the AVXpress (AVX).
The company says this new...
Housing Starts Disappoint, Fell 9% In September
Starts of single-family homes, however, increased 8.1% compared with August.
MBA: Mortgage Application Volume Increased Slightly
After decreasing 6.0% the previous week, mortgage application volume increased 0.6% on an adjusted basis during the week ended Oct. 14, according to the...
Refinance Share Of Mortgage Originations Increased In September
About 45% of mortgage originations in September were refinances - up from 43% in August, as mortgage rates continued to hover near record lows,...
Victorian Finance Automates Loan Review With Visionet Systems
Mortgage lender Victorian Finance is using Visionet Systems Inc.'s software and services for automated loan review.
Using Visionet's VisiLoanReview (VLR) platform, Victorian has automated the...
WFG National Title Acquires Columbia Title
WFG National Title Co. is acquiring Vancouver, Wash.-based Columbia Title Agency for an undisclosed sum.
As per a company press release, WFG National Title, a...
Radian Selected As PMI Provider For New Mortgage Program For The Underserved
In September, Freddie Mac announced that it had teamed up with New American Funding and Alterra Home Loans to launch Your Path, a new...