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By: Maria MoskverFebruary 10, 2021By:Maria MoskverFebruary 10, 2021  We recently announced a technology integration with ServiceLink’s EXOS platform that will enable lenders to expedite title decisions and digital title delivery and help lenders close more...

By: Jason SitzmanFebruary 5, 2021By:Jason SitzmanFebruary 5, 2021 This Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday: the biggest day of the year for football and advertising. This year, the roster of advertisers will look a little different. Many household names—like Coke, Pepsi and...

By: Jason SitzmanAugust 6, 2020By:Jason SitzmanAugust 6, 2020 As America adjusts to life with COVID-19, the housing market has shown signs of recovery. The MBA recently reported that new home purchase applications in May were up 10.9 percent from a year ago, and up 26...

By: Mark StierJune 23, 2020By:Mark StierJune 23, 2020 With stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders in effect in most of the country (and likely to stay active for several more weeks), buyer and seller expectations for mortgage lending have changed substantially from...

By: Daniel AkivaJune 1, 2020By:Daniel AkivaJune 1, 2020Face-to-face meetings have traditionally been the best way to develop trust between Originators and borrowers. However, social distancing has thrown that option out the window. This new reality, coupled with the...

By: Tim Von KaenelMay 4, 2020By:Tim Von KaenelMay 4, 2020When I started writing this article in February, I had a different plan for what I’d cover. Since then, of course, COVID-19 has swept the globe, put much of the United States under lockdown orders, and led to...

By: Kyle KamroozJanuary 21, 2020By:Kyle KamroozJanuary 21, 2020After much hand-wringing that millennials would rent forever, this generation is finally buying homes – and in fact has made up the largest generational group of homebuyers in recent years (36 percent in...

By: Tim Von KaenelJanuary 17, 2020By:Tim Von KaenelJanuary 17, 2020For more than a decade now, the digital transformation of mortgage origination has been underway. Despite this, many lenders still rely on a patchwork of technology, often because they adopt...

By: Kyle KamroozJanuary 7, 2020By:Kyle KamroozJanuary 7, 2020Almost every mortgage lender in the country had a record Q3, thanks to a refinance boom spurred by low interest rates. Homeowners headed to their lenders in droves to take advantage of the lower rates. All...

By: Daniel SogorkaDecember 23, 2019By:Daniel SogorkaDecember 23, 2019In October, we were lucky enough to have news of our partnership with Supreme Lending covered in Rob Chrisman’s daily newsletter, a fantastic go-to resource for many in the mortgage lending space....

By: Taison KearneyDecember 6, 2019By:Taison KearneyDecember 6, 2019Earlier this year, Cloudvirga earned SOC-2 and ISO 27001 certification, which means that the way we store and process customer data meets rigorous international security standards. The process of...

By: Tim Von KaenelNovember 20, 2019By:Tim Von KaenelNovember 20, 2019Final decision makers for new technology at most mortgage companies are likely in IT and finance. But to maximize the ROI of any new mortgage technology your organization adopts, it’s essential to...

By: Tim Von KaenelNovember 15, 2019By:Tim Von KaenelNovember 15, 2019One of the great paradoxes of the way mortgage technology has evolved in recent years is that, even though individual solutions have emerged to address isolated parts of the mortgage lending process,...

By: Kyle KamroozNovember 8, 2019By:Kyle KamroozNovember 8, 2019I’ve written in the past about what it will take to bring mortgage lending into the digital age (hint: digitize the back end) and about the necessity of bringing down the cost of mortgage lending. Today, I...

By: Maria MoskverNovember 7, 2019By:Maria MoskverNovember 7, 2019Before Dodd-Frank, it was far too common for mortgage companies to fall outside the guidelines  set for compliance. Everyone’s expectations were different, in part because there was far less oversight....