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Lender Reaches Out To Brokers
Parkside Lending, LLC, a national wholesale and correspondent lender, announces the creation of a new Broker Advisory Board that is designed to leverage the expertise and feedback from a diverse group...
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A Look At Emerging Companies
Mortgage Peer Network announced today that it has been selected as one of ten companies to participate in the VC FinTech Accelerator Program, powered by FIS, for emerging financial technology...
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How To Get Noticed
Every company struggles to get the attention of lenders. Every company wants that all-important first meeting. So, how do you do it? According to an article entitled “How Top Salespeople Land...
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Lender Reaches Out To Borrowers With New Technology
Evergreen Home Loans, a full-service direct lender with regional offices throughout the Western United States, has selected the Alight Mortgage Lending platform to streamline branch interaction,...
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Let’s Reward Good Behavior
My son is obsessed with the new app called Pokemon Go and he is not a lone. So, when I heard about how HealthyWage, the world’s leading purveyor of corporate and team-based weight loss challenges and...
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How To Perfect Your Branding
Every few months there’s another super hero movie hitting theaters. So, when I came across the article “Superhero Strategies for Nailing Your Branding” by Kyle Zagrodzky, I was immediately interested...
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Yes, Innovation Really Matters
I say it a lot because I believe it: Those companies that innovator will be tomorrow’s industry leaders. For example, RealtyTrac unveiled a new multi-sourced national property database named the ATTOM...
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Banker Will Use Cloud-Based Application To Forecast The Future
Union Home Mortgage Corp. (UHM) has selected the Alight Mortgage Lending platform to streamline branch reporting and acquisition analysis, help meet growth objectives and more accurately project cash...
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The Power Of E-Mail
When you talk about e-mail, you usually don’t equate it to a way of bringing in more revenue. That’s a mistake In the article entitled “A Guide to Cold E-Mailing” published in the Harvard Business...
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Lenders Innovate, Too
We always talk about technology vendors innovating, but lenders are innovating, as well. For Example. American Financial Resources, Inc., an approved Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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The Next Generation LOS
The lending community has very little control over the many challenges and changes that seem to be coming at it from every direction. Last month we talked about the impact of the housing markets ups...
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Service As A Pillar Of Your Customer Ecosystem
How often does a piece of technology break only to realize you now have to make the dreaded phone call to the 1-800 support number on the back of the device? For most, this is met with a monotone...
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The LOS Of The Future
Founded by bankers — not technologists — OpenClose remains one of the top mortgage software companies in the country. The company was a pioneer in developing software as a service (SaaS) for the...
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Choosing The Right Appraiser
Credible, accurate appraisals will make all the difference in your deals, accelerating smooth closings and making borrowers happy. If the appraised value on a subject property is too low, most deals...
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Grading The CFPB
Many in the industry have rebuked the work done by the Consumer Financial protection Bureau, but their work is certainly needed. The best case of the CFPB’s successes and failures can be seen in their...
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The Dawn Of A New Day
I like the term ‘digital mortgage’ because it really reflects the concept of data before documents. And I believe the term ‘e-mortgage’ has suffered from many misconceptions and that it is better to...
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The New Face Of Mortgage Marketing
In today’s highly regulatory environment, not having the proper corporate control can be extremely costly. You’re faced with a difficult choice. On the one hand, with fierce competition intensifying...
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Using Analytics To Increase Volume And Lower Cost
Mortgage Peer Network has completed an integration that adds peer-based analytics to LendingQB’s cloud-based mortgage loan origination system (LOS). The two companies have joined forces to help lenders...
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A Look Back
As we finish up the fourth quarter, let’s reflect on some of the major industry highlights of 2016. We can’t learn from our mistakes if we don’t first recognize them. So, I like to end the year...
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Last month I started talking about success. We all desire to be successful, but we don’t always know how to get there. In an article entitled “Keys To Successful People in Life and Business,” some...
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