Tag Archives: Mortgage Industry

Approximately three-quarters of mortgage industry professionals believe that today’s regulatory environment prevents them from lending to creditworthy borrowers.

Commentary is an ongoing series on theMReport.com that focuses on opinions, ideas, and insights from experts across mortgage banking. TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule compliance is finally here. Pramod Karachur, project manager at IndiSoft, outlines how many, but not all, are adjusting to the new regulation and offers advice to those that are still working toward compliance.

Commentary is an ongoing series on theMReport.com that focuses on opinions, ideas, and insights from experts across mortgage banking. This article features Mark McElroy, president and CEO of Pavaso, Inc., advising lenders to be innovative in their business practices to serve today's consumers.

Commentary is an ongoing series on theMReport.com that focuses on opinions, ideas, and insights from experts across mortgage banking. This advisory piece features Sanjeev Dahiwadkar, president and CEO of IndiSoft, LLC, discussing how mortgage lenders and servicers should not solely rely on technology in the mortgage industry to safeguard against potential fraudulent activity.

With no fundamental changes to the origination process in decades, the lost efficiency, increasing costs and decreasing profits, combined with ever-merging regulatory hurdles, have left a gap in the mortgage industry to be filled by "disruptors."

Greek citizens delivered a surprising response to Europe’s leaders on Sunday, when a majority of voters rejected a deal offered by the country’s creditors. In this historic turn of events, the Interior Ministry reported that with more than 90 percent of the vote tallied, 61 percent of the voters said no to bailout terms offered by the country's international creditors, while 39 percent voted yes to these terms. Media outlets and industry experts gauged the connection that the Greece crisis can have on the U.S. mortgage industry finding that much of the issue rests with interest rates.

Following the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) announcement that its August 1 deadline will stand, lenders and mortgage industry service providers are now scrambling to prepare for the day the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule (TRID) goes into effect. But it’s not all headache and hassle with TRID.

DocMagic announced in a recent press release that its eSign platforms have reached more than 100 million mortgage-related eSignatures. DocMagic provides compliant loan document preparation services, compliance, eSign, and eDelivery solutions.