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Market Analysis: Valuation Fraud Is On The Rise

Market Analysis: Valuation Fraud Is On The Rise

Tony Garritano February 21, 2012

*Valuation Fraud Is On The Rise*
**By Tony Garritano**
***Interthinx has released its quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report covering data collected in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to the most recent analysis, certain regions

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Life-Cycle Lending: The Cost Of Change

Life-Cycle Lending: The Cost Of Change

Joe Dombrowski February 21, 2012

*The Cost Of Change*
**By Joe Dombrowski**
***Organizations looking to improve their lending operations essentially have three options

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Market Analysis: Stretching Out

Market Analysis: Stretching Out

Tony Garritano February 19, 2012

*Stretching Out*
**By Tony Garritano**
***The mortgage market is always changing. So, technology vendors have to keep up. How do they do that? They either buy a company that has something their lenders need that

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Powering Today’s Lenders: Level The Playing Field

Powering Today’s Lenders: Level The Playing Field

Daniel Liggett February 19, 2012

*Level The Playing Field*
**By Daniel Liggett**
***The latest ‘Lender Spotlight’ shines on Torrington Savings Bank, whose innovative use of technology has allowed them to level the playing field against larger lenders. This is the

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Market Analysis: Simplifying LO Comp

Market Analysis: Simplifying LO Comp

Tony Garritano February 16, 2012

*Simplifying LO Comp*
**By Tony Garritano**
***Yes the new Loan Officer Compensation rules are behind us, but compliance is still hard at times. Technology vendors realize that lenders are struggling. As a result, PROGRESS in

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Market Analysis: Make Electronic Signing Easy

Market Analysis: Make Electronic Signing Easy

Tony Garritano February 14, 2012

*Make Electronic Signing Easy*
**By Tony Garritano**
***Who said eSigning has to be difficult? It doesn’t and you can get immediate return on investment both in terms of hard dollars saved, efficiency gained and increased

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Market Analysis: Getting Ready For ULDD

Market Analysis: Getting Ready For ULDD

Tony Garritano February 13, 2012

*Getting Ready For ULDD*
**By Tony Garritano**
***The Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset is a major change in the way the mortgage industry not only delivers loans between lenders and investors, but is also a significant

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Life-Cycle Lending: The Consumer-Centric Perspective

Life-Cycle Lending: The Consumer-Centric Perspective

Joe Dombrowski February 13, 2012

*The Customer-Centric Perspective*
**By Joe Dombrowski**
***Having a customer-centric perspective to mortgage servicing is critical in terms of both profitability and borrower experience and plays out with essential differences, depending on a financial institution’s servicing

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Market Analysis: Talking Real Solutions

Market Analysis: Talking Real Solutions

Tony Garritano February 10, 2012

*Talking Real Solutions*
**By Tony Garritano**
***>Just in case you’re wondering, I will not be talking about the President’s plan to prevent future foreclosures. In my view it boils down to election year politics. We’ve

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Market Analysis: Looking For Quality

Market Analysis: Looking For Quality

Tony Garritano February 8, 2012

*Looking For Quality*
**By Tony Garritano**
***There’s a lot of talk about quality control. But how do you ensure quality? Technology can help. For example, PROGRESS in Lending has learned that mortgage industry professionals now

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