Michael Kolbrener: POS Platforms are a Gateway to Improving the Mortgage Experience
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Michael Kolbrener is chief technology officer of PromonTech, the Denver-based technology arm of Promontory MortgagePath. This past October, the company...
Margie Hennessey: It’s Still Uncertain How Rising Rates Will Impact Home Sales
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Margie Hennessey is a regional executive for Embrace Home Loans. MortgageOrb recently interviewed Hennessey to learn more about what mortgage...
Pam Perdue: Unified Compliance Management Systems Will Transform Mortgage Operations
PERSON OF THE WEEK: New rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) require that all mortgage lenders maintain compliance management systems (CMS) -...
Mark Collins: Purchasing of Delinquent Property Taxes is Big Business
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Mark Collins is senior tax executive with LERETA, a provider of property tax data to the mortgage servicing industry.
MortgageOrb recently...
Rob Pajon: Mortgage Servicers Need Technology That Adjusts to Business Cycles
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Rob Pajon is senior vice president, marketing and product, with U.S. Real Estate Services (USRES), a company focused on REO...
John Ardy: Secondary Market Trading Getting Faster, More Granular with Technology
PERSON OF THE WEEK: In case you haven’t noticed, technology is completely changing how the secondary market operates - particularly with regard to speed...
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...
Tom Gillen: Expect to See Increasing Use of Alternative Credit Data
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Tom Gillen is senior vice president of secondary marketing for Churchill Mortgage, which offers residential mortgages across 44 states.
MortgageOrb recently...
Jim Vaca: For Mortgage Servicers, Vendor Management Isn’t a Part-Time Job
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Jim Vaca is vice president of vendor management operations at Altisource, a provider of software and services to the mortgage...
Corey Smith: The Step Beyond the AVM
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Corey Smith is chief operating officer of Austin, Texas-based FirstClose, provider of technology solutions to refinance and home equity lenders,...
Ramaj Balley: Hope, Optimism and Excitement Are Contagious
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Ramaj Balley is vice president of national retail lending at MiMutual Mortgage, a mortgage lender with retail and wholesale operations...
Yogesh Chaudhari: Mobile, IoT Complicate Compliance
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Yogesh Chaudhari is senior vice president of IndiSoft LLC, an organization that develops, licenses and supports a range of software-as-a-service...
Shannon Buckner-Santos: Tips for Preserving Resources at Loan Origination
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Shannon Buckner-Santos is vice president of national accounts at Informative Research, a mortgage technology and data solutions provider. Specializing in...
Gena Roach: Push Borrowers to the Web
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Gena Roach, the web applications system support manager at Financial Industry Computer Systems (FICS), says web-based tools offer borrowers efficiency...
Jeff Sandman: Appraiser Attrition Problem Will Take ‘Concerted Effort’
PERSON OF THE WEEK: The debate rages on: Is there really an "appraiser shortage" as some claim? And will technology and automation one day...
Harry Gardner: Misconceptions Still Surround E-Signatures
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Harry Gardner is executive vice president of e-strategies for Docutech, a provider of e-signature and e-document technology to the mortgage...
Maria A. Hatfield: Harnessing Big Data for Underwriting
PERSON OF THE WEEK: As federal regulators and the nation’s largest secondary market investors continue to seek out ways to make home financing available...
Richard Yonis: Tax and Flood Missteps Can Be Costly
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Richard Yonis is senior vice president and national sales director for LERETA, which provides property tax data and flood hazard...
Brian Fitzpatrick: Contamination Is the Problem
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Brian K. Fitzpatrick is president and CEO of LoanLogics Inc., which focuses on loan quality management and performance analytics technologies...
Barry Malone: Customers Appreciate Having Their Loans Serviced By Their Original Lender
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Barry Malone is senior vice president of sales for Financial Industry Computer Systems Inc., a provider of mortgage loan origination...