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Cooperative Home Buying Could Be What’s Next

With low housing inventory, high home prices and rising interest rates, cooperative home buying with joint tenancy might be the answer.

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Cooperative Home Buying Could Be What’s Next

With low housing inventory, high home prices and rising interest rates, cooperative home buying with joint tenancy might be the answer.

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Preparing for Additional Data Privacy Legislation

Seeking to modernize financial data privacy laws and give consumers more control how their data is used, how can we prepare for this new legislation?

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Did ChatGPT Just Make Chatbots Mortgage-ready?

How has the mortgage industry used chatbots like ChatGPT previously, and what additional AI tools can we expect to see in the future?

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Making Process Changes Easy in Mortgage

In order to keep up with industry changes, a lender's technology needs to be easily customizable to their needs.

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The Unrealized Mortgage Servicing Opportunity

How does the application of AI to the mortgage servicing process help with finding business where no one else can?

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Why The Industry Must Start Sharing Data

How can lenders fully maximize the value that new AI tools can bring to our industry, and the borrowers we serve?

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Getting LOs On Board with Loan Product Changes 

Many lenders are making the decision to add reverse mortgage loan products to their menus, setting themselves up for future success.

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Why Reverse Mortgages Are About to Heat Up 

Being able to originate a compliant reverse mortgage loan using existing technology and staff is a huge advantage for lenders.

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Putting the Final Numbers to 2022

Coming off a $4.4+ trillion year in 2021, this past year was a big change for many lenders. What are the industry's final numbers for 2022?

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The Impacts of Fannie’s Appraisal Decision

Fannie Mae published its Selling Guide announcement SEL-2023-02 that details its new thinking on collateral valuation for home loan lenders.

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Getting Strategic About Lending in 2023 

How should lenders be more strategic about lending in a purchase money mortgage business with volumes down 50% or more, year-over-year?

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A Match Made in M&A Heaven

How are credit unions using mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to help gain attention and grow their business?

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Automated Workflows Can Help Mortgage Lenders with Credit Decisioning

How can leveraging Equifax solutions through MCP help lenders speed up the origination process, and make more accurate lending decisions?

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A Strategy to Win More Business: New RE Agents

How can creating relationships with new real estate agents help lenders win more business in the future?

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Making the Most of the Lender’s Tech Investments

How should lenders utilize their current technology functionalities before deciding to invest in additional tools?

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3 Questions to Ask Your LOS Provider Now

What are the three critical questions every lender should be asking their technology partners as we enter the new year?

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Lenders Getting Creative to Compete

What are some creative techniques that lenders are implementing as a way to stay competitive in today's market?

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Helping Borrowers Understand a Changing Market

How does a lender’s people, processes and technology all contribute to a better customer experience, especially in a purchase money market?

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Is Regulatory Change Slowing?

Why are the mortgage industry regulatory and compliance changes slowing down?

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Teaching AI to be Smarter Than Us

How do tools like AI and machine learning assist in the progression of technology in the mortgage industry?

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Why We’re Excited About the Fall Conferences

If your company is making mortgage loans, you're probably looking for new technology. Find us at the next industry conference!

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Mortgage Cadence Launches Imaging for MCP

Mortgage Cadence launches Imaging for MCP: the latest secure, cloud-based, scalable document management capability that can dynamically respond.

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In Defense of Zero-Based Thinking

How can lenders use the concept of zero-based thinking as a tool for strategic planning throughout their career?

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Where to Seek Mortgage Volume Now 

What should lenders do to find new business opportunities in today's market and maintain high mortgage volume?

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Is Blockchain Coming to Mortgage Origination? 

How will blockchain technology give opportunities and value to lenders who are involved in the mortgage industry?

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Leaning In Through a Downturn 

What are the best mortgage lenders doing to optimize their business when facing such a strong market downturn?

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Leading Through Uncertain Times

There are two areas that lenders should focus on in order to lead successfully during the market downturn.

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Expanding for the Borrower Experience

The borrower experience is important, and goes beyond the transaction itself. What should lenders do to enhance their business?

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Homeowners Are Still Staying Put

What should lenders do to continue to increase their business during the present-day home inventory shortage?

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Smart Tech in the American Home: Distrust or Trust?

A new survey from Mortgage Cadence shows Americans love their smart tech, but also have concerns about privacy and security.

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The Home Equity Opportunity for Credit Unions

How are institutions approaching the home equity market, and how is it impacting lenders and credit unions?

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Seeking Solutions for Affordable Housing

There are solutions to the affordable housing crisis, but telling lenders to finance homes for borrowers who aren’t ready isn’t one of them.

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The Wildcard Factor for Mortgage Success

Besides technology, what other aspects could be important for banks and credit unions overall mortgage success?

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eClose: What Lenders Need Besides Technology

Besides the technology, what are the other key factors lenders should be focused on for a successful eClose?

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More Non-QM Mortgage Originators in 2022

How are Non-Qualified Mortgage (Non-QM) Originators impacting the mortgage industry?

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A History of Precise Business Days and Observed Holidays

"A History of Precise Business Days and Observed Holidays" written by Timothy A. Raty, Risk and Compliance Specialist at Mortgage Cadence

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The Connection Between POS & Title Companies

What are the main driving factors for the recent merging of title companies and Point-of-Sale (POS) providers?

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A New Technological Approach to Lender Services 

Mortgage Cadence launches an innovative new Services Strategy. 

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Evaluating Technology Point Solution Providers

What are the characteristics lenders should be considering when they are deciding on technology providers?

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Technologies that Complement the Modern LOS

A modern LOS provider will make it easy for lenders to choose the partner and solution they want to integrate with.

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A Brighter Future for Lenders Using MCP

The new Mortgage Cadence Platform (MCP) is the most configurable LOS on the market, it makes the lender’s workflow simple.

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2022 Homeowner’s Outlook

What might the housing market look like in 2022? We surveyed over 1,000 Americans to better understand this year’s opinions.

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3 Clues That You’ve Found a Next-Generation LOS

What are the 3 critical criteria that need to be met in order to identify a next-generation LOS?

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Lowering Fulfillment Costs with Technology

Investments lenders have made over the past few years have not lowered their fulfillment costs, but they can invest in technology that will.

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4 Reasons Credit Unions Will Be Strong Mortgage Competitors in 2022

Credit unions are poised to be strong mortgage competitors during 2022. Here are the four main reasons why.

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Expansion to Preserve High Revenue Levels

What are the steps lenders are taking to expand beyond the typical mortgage cycle and maintain high revenue levels?

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Hitching a Ride on the Borrower’s Journey

Who is the main driver of the borrower's journey in refinance business compared to the purchase money market?

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The Channels You Choose

How does the ability to support multi-channel lending in a single tech stack expose the company to more loan sources?

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The Critical Importance of Good Analytics

What are lenders doing with consumer data and how does analytical information benefit the mortgage industry?

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What Quarterly Earnings Reports Tell Us

How should lenders utilize their quarterly earnings reports and data to make decisions for their business?

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What Does Next-Generation Really Mean?

You can’t roll out the next iteration of the system and call it next-generation; you have to deliver a truly new software platform.

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