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Bank Technology News December 2008 Rebecca Sausner |
Modifying Home Loans Depends On Past Tech Investments The nation's largest banks are offering sweeping modifications on millions of mortgages. But how efficiently loans can be reworked will depend in part on how heavily institutions have invested in loan technology. |
BusinessWeek October 21, 2010 Peter Coy et al. |
Mortgage Mess: Shredding the Dream The foreclosure crisis isn't just about lost documents. It's about trust - and a clash over who gets stuck with $1.1 trillion in losses. |
Bank Technology News October 2010 Sausner et al. |
Balancing Act Here's a look at three areas of mortgage lending -- origination risk, default management, and impending regulations -- and some of the answers on the table today. |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Mortgage Lending: Partying Like It's 2005 Bank of America has softened requirements and begun authorizing some mortgage modifications without getting all the documents first. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz |
What's Next at Lender Processing Services? Lender Processing Services, a major provider of back-end support for the mortgage industry, reported a 5% rise in revenue for the fourth quarter. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 2, 2004 Kristi Nelson |
The Holy Grail of Loan Processing Online lenders have a jump on unlocking the potential of straight through mortgage processing. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 23, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Fannie, Freddie Troubles May Have Been Avoided If Technology Was Used Properly As observers watch cash-strapped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being propped up by the government, many wonder how technology failed to save the agencies and the lenders supplying mortgages to them from being left holding the bag on so many bad loans. |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Andrew Dubinsky |
How to Unclog the Loan Mod Pipeline? Eliminate Paper The Obama Administration is doing everything it can to help minimize the effects of the ongoing mortgage crisis but for HAMP to work, the cumbersome documentation and verification process must be eliminated. |
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Kathleen M. Howley |
Delays in Short Sales Frustrate Home Buyers Short sales could accelerate the resolution of the housing crisis -- if the process is streamlined by the big federal mortgage lenders |
Bank Systems & Technology November 26, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Lending Tech Vendor Space to See Realignment As lenders find themselves in the throes of the credit crunch, the ill effects are trickling down to the lending technology vendors, ushering in a realignment in the space. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Phil Britt |
True E-Mortgage Inches Closer to Reality The technology needed to enable a true online mortgage already exists today, according to David Matthews, CIO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago. |
Bank Systems & Technology March 11, 2004 Katherine Burger |
Gaining the Scale Advantage in Mortgage Lending BearingPoint initiative aims for transformation of the mortgage business. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2010 Andrew Bond |
Foreclosure Battle Rages On Don't bet on a quick end to the foreclosure fiasco. |
U.S. Banker April 2010 Kate Berry |
Paying Seconds First Despite falling behind on mortgages, borrowers continue to make payments on home equity loans. |
Bank Systems & Technology April 1, 2005 Cynthia Ramsaran |
Echoes of the Mortgage Boom With more institutions vying for the business of fewer customers, it's more important than ever for mortgage players seeking to grow revenues to improve service by offering new and differentiated mortgage products, such as Web-based offerings. |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Peter Coy |
Commentary: Mortgages Lost in the Cloud The foreclosure documentation mess isn't just a clerical problem. It erodes certainty about property rights - the key to capitalism. |
BusinessWeek February 12, 2009 Brian Grow |
What's Holding Back Mortgage Modification? Many mortgage services say they can't modify terms to let homeowners avoid foreclosure. But there may be fewer obstacles than they claim. |
Bank Technology News May 1, 2008 Glen Fest |
REO: Banks Ponder: To Sell or Not to Sell? As foreclosures rise, bank by bank, the real-estate owned portfolio news is anywhere from sickly to critical. |
Bank Technology News April 2007 Glen Fest |
Mortgage Lending: New E-Standards Expand Although the mortgage industry has stalled in the wake of a once-white-hot housing market, the momentum for expanding electronic mortgage servicing and delivery capabilities is showing signs of peaking. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 24, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Digitization and Automation Will Yield Great Returns In Mortgage Biz As the refinance boom fizzles, mortgage lenders should reassess their processes, according to BearingPoint. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Paulson's New Plan: A Cheap Mortgage for Every Home A new rescue plan for the economy would use nationalized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower the 30-year fixed mortgage rate down as far as 4.5%, over a full point lower than the current level. |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Homeowners Free-Riding on the Bank's Dime Foreclosed on, but still happily at home. |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
Rising Star Shorts: Bank of America and Lender Processing Services You may have been hearing about the various mortgage fraud scandals ripping through Wall Street and the economy. We've decided to put a little bit of capital into betting against two of the biggest apparent culprits. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Good Credit Won't Save You Now The "adverse market" surcharge could cost mortgage borrowers thousands annually. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Curtains for the American Dream? How trouble with Fannie and Freddie could affect your ability to get a mortgage. |
AskMen.com Nick Kennedy |
The Foreclosure Crisis With recent news that many financial service companies had been employing "robo-signers" to help foreclose on thousands of homes around the country, many banks voluntarily declared a moratorium on booting people from their residences. |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2010 Kathleen M. Howley et al. |
Mortgage Modifications Aren't Stopping Foreclosures Programs designed to keep owners in their homes are being upended by lost paperwork and procedural errors. |
BusinessWeek October 6, 2010 Cronin-Fisk & Howley |
The Foreclosure Mess Could Last for Years Faulty foreclosures will lead to a flood of lawsuits that may haunt lenders, title insurers, and home buyers for years to come. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Citigroup's Shameful About-Face on Mortgage Mods Beware this misguided effort to stop foreclosures. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Housing Market Stimulants Bush administration remedies for the ailing housing market may provide much-needed inducements for the market to heal itself. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Mortgage Industry's Digital Divide Not all segments of the commercial mortgage industry are embracing technology at the same rate. A study last year found that many firms still rely on time-consuming faxes, certified mail and reams of FedEx-delivered paper to process, close and monitor their loans. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
3 Reasons Mortgage Modifications Are Failing Want a mortgage modification? Cross your fingers, and don't expect a lot of help from banks. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Can You Really Just Walk Away? Giving up on your mortgage and letting the bank foreclose on your property might seem easy, but how smart is it? |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 David Lee Smith |
The Mortgage Lenders' Dual Masters Whatever steps some lenders and loan service agents are willing to take to help troubled mortgage holders, the crush of delinquencies and foreclosures, along with radically tightened credit standards in the mortgage industry, will make for a slow recovery for the U.S. housing market. |
Bank Technology News January 2007 John Adams |
Paperless Mortgages: The Broker Pens Her Own Program Hawaiian mortgage broker Donna Iwane was frustrated by cumbersome processing, so she developed a Web application that creates loan proposals in less than a minute. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2009 Russ Krull |
Banking on Clues From the FHA FHA funds report sheds some light on mortgage performance. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Morgan Housel |
A Thief? A Burglar? Nah, Just JPMorgan A house-buying couple becomes the latest victims of a mortgage industry struggling to sift through a mountain of foreclosures. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2011 Evan Niu |
Lender Processing Services Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage processer Lender Processing Services are getting foreclosed on today, down by as much as 17%, after the Nevada attorney general sued the company. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Phil Britt |
Show Me the Money Mortgage lenders are investing in technologies to increase process efficiencies and enable better targeting of loan prospects, according to industry analysts. |
BusinessWeek September 29, 2010 Bob Ivry et al. |
Faulty Foreclosures May Prolong the Slump Probes of whether lenders followed the rules could halt seizures, and that could keep the real estate market from finding its bottom. |
BusinessWeek March 10, 2011 Karen Weise |
States Test Mortgage Principal Write-Downs Some economists say home-loan forgiveness is the key to a real estate rebound. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Stop Picking at the Housing Carcass The latest attack on banks sounds reasonable but makes no sense. |
Bank Technology News November 2010 Michael Sisk |
6-LPS For Lender Processing Services it's difficult to imagine the business environment for getting any better. "When you think of the entire banking space, they are in the ideal sweet spot," said Ellen Carney, a senior analyst at Forrester Research. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: No More Jumbo Loans From Capital One Capital One pulls the plug on its nonconforming mortgage business. |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
In Defense of Mortgage Brokers Mortgage brokers can save you money even if your credit score is high. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Life After Fannie and Freddie: Canada Edition A modest proposal, modeled after our neighbors to the north. |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Obama's First Task: Rebuilding Our Housing What first steps might the president-elect take to treat our housing malaise? |
Bank Technology News May 2010 John Adams |
Tech Providers Pitch Mortgage Processing in the Cloud First American has granted worldwide exclusive rights to Dorado, giving the firm, which offers collaborative cloud computing solutions to financial services clients, the ability to combine First American's data and analytics engines with its own collaborative transaction processing technology. |
U.S. Banker July 2010 |
Mandatory Education To prevent future stress in the housing market at the levels we see now, financial education should be required of anyone who receives a mortgage. |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
40 Years Is a Bad Way to Spell Relief Countrywide and other mortgage companies begin promoting 40-year mortgages. Investors, don't jump into this option without much due diligence. |