Inside Mortgage Trends

Online Origination Volume Plunges in 2007, Outpacing Decline in the Overall Market

Online mortgage originations plunged 28.6 percent between the third and fourth quarters of 2007, and were down 20.7 percent between 2006 and 2007, according to a new analysis by Inside Mortgage Technology.The last half of 2007 was a terrible... [Includes two charts] Read More

System Protects Document Security Without a “Trusted Third Party”

A Midwest mortgage broker is protecting its business with a technology that secures documents without incurring both the costs and additional work associated with utilizing a conventional “trusted third party.” Pinnacle Lending Group has... Read More

New Program Analyzes Value of Secondary Liens

Lenders may be having a difficult time dealing with defaults on primary mortgages – but dealing with subordinate debt, such as second mortgages and home-equity lines of credit, may be even more challenging. Now a financial services firm has come up... Read More

New VA Mortgage Data System Aims to Cut Costs and Defaults

The US Department of Veterans Affairs has finally launched its electronic mortgage data reporting system, and has simultaneously implemented significant changes in the requirements VA imposes on mortgage servicers who must file periodic reports... Read More

Hope Now Members Team With Vendor on Web Site

Two major mortgage lenders, a mortgage insurer, a software provider and a counseling agency have combined efforts to develop a Web-based loss mitigation system. Computer Sciences Corporation has teamed with members of the Hope Now Alliance to adapt... Read More

Technology Newswire

Automated underwriting technology vendor PriceMyLoan has completed a direct integration of its products with Fannie Mae’s... A start-up technology services firm has launched an automated title processing system designed to advance paperless... Read More

Technology Procurement

Fidelity National Information Services recently inked a multi-year contract extension with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage for the... Marlborough Savings Bank, a regional lender near Boston, has chosen a loan origination system from Fiserv to automate its mortgage... Read More

Technology Management

ServiceLink has appointed Blane Bauch and Michael Minnis as senior vice presidents. They will be responsible for... MRG Document Technologies, a provider of compliance and documentation services for the financial industry, has appointed... Read More

March 7, 2008

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Online Origination Volume Plunges in 2007, Outpacing Decline in the Overall Market

System Protects Document Security Without a “Trusted Third Party”

New Program Analyzes Value of Secondary Liens

New VA Mortgage Data System Aims to Cut Costs and Defaults

Hope Now Members Team With Vendor on Web Site

Technology Newswire

Technology Procurement

Technology Management

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