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Over 120 members of the Legal League 100 in the financial-services area met for their Fall Summit at the Five Star Conference and Expo to champion their successes, which Five Star President and CEO attributes to professionalism above all else.

Veros Real Estate Solutions, a Santa Ana, California-based technology provider, announced Wednesday a new solution that satisfies the GSEs’ Uniform Closing Dataset requirements, which go into effect next week. “We are pleased to announce our new VeroDATAFI for lenders to be able to comply with the new UCD requirements and address the system and process challenges that September 25th will bring,” said Charles Rumfola, SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Veros. Veros already has a strong relationship with the GSEs. In fact, Rumfola said, “Veros played an integral part in successfully implementing the Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP) for the GSEs, and we are looking to build on that success for UCD.”

The Five Star Conference’s Expo Hall opened Tuesday morning, giving hundreds of exhibiting brands the opportunity to come together from all different walks of life. That evening, the Five Star Institute, with support from Operation Homefront, presented mortgage free homes at the Keys for Life event.

A recent study conducted a national survey to determine the largest barriers of home ownership at determined by potential buyers, and the results could be surprising.

So few companies are run by women in the mortgage industry that they stand out by simply existing. Take a closer look, and it’s clear these women-led organizations are growing at a faster pace, with a more disruptive influence than less diverse companies in our industry. Editor’s Note: This Feature first appeared in the September issue of MReport, available now.

DS News sat down with Jorge Ponce, Director of Business Development & Implementation at FirstClose; Joey McDuffee, Director at Wipro Gallagher Solutions; and Kevin Watson, District Manager, Middle Tennessee at Churchill Mortgage to discuss inventory woes and the future of the market in this exclusive three-part roundtable.

During the Five Star Conference and Expo, Five Star President and CEO Ed Delgado called upon the mortgage industry to be united, for it’s not about one voice, it’s about collective voices sharing a common vision.

dRES.NET, a leading company within the mortgage industry connecting all facets, from vendors to consumers, announced the availability of a new suite of asset strategy tools designed to ...

Five Star President and CEO Ed Delgado spoke at the Federation of Certified REO Experts (FORCE) Rally and American Mortgage Diversity Council (AMDC) meeting Tuesday discussing the industries hardest hit topics: Diversity and a potential housing bubble.

More controversy surrounding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recently emerged regarding the way they are collecting data on credit offerings to small businesses. The Bureau is looking into how lenders identify and classify small businesses when deciding whether or not to provide a loan, as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.