For most mortgage lenders, 2025 has brought significant uncertainty—elevating risk management to a top priority. Effective title management is critical to risk management but is often overlooked as an area for innovation. That is changing.
Advancements in technology and shifting market regulations are prompting mortgage lenders to invest in modernizing title technology and processes. Here we...
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3 Ways Remote Online Notarization (RON) Can Help Your Lending Business
June 7, 2023
Traditionally, closing on a mortgage or home equity loan requires coordinating a lot of people, paperwork and signatures to happen at the same time and place. For both borrowers and lenders, this can be a source of frustration.
Typically, the average time to close a home loan is approximately 50 days and involves disparate technologies, people...
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Key Themes from CBA LIVE
June 1, 2023
We spent three amazing days at this year’s CBA LIVE in Las Vegas discussing "What's NEXT" in challenges, trends and innovations impacting home equity lending.
Two of the most complex issues examined during the conference facing home equity lenders today are appraisal bias and fraud protection.
Helping to Mitigate Appraisal Bias
Concerns of how to appropriately combat appraisal... Read moreReal Estate Lenders Playbook: Digital Mortgage Edition
Higher mortgage rates, record levels of home price appreciation, constrained housing inventories and economic inflation have lenders and borrowers on edge this year. Fannie Mae recently found consensus opinion among mortgage executives that both purchase origination and refinance activity will decline. In addition, Fannie Mae’s December 2022 report offered insights into the mortgage...
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