The firm noted that employment and income fraud peaked in the fourth quarter of 2013 and has declined ever since.

DocMagic would like to double its nationwide sales staff to 20 by the time 2015 ends.

Mortgage vendors usually see their fortunes rise and fall based on loan origination volume, but don’t tell that to DocMagic, which is consolidating its hold in the document preparation business. In a year in which residential production fell 34 percent, the Torrance, CA-based DocMagic grew its client base to 7,500, a gain of 1,000 in just over 12 months. The privately held doc prep/software company doesn’t generally disclose revenue figures, but according to ...

Is the mortgage industry nearing a tipping point in terms of homebuyers using online capabilities predominantly to secure financing for the biggest purchase of their lives? That increasingly appears to be the case, a recent survey suggests. Nine out of 10 respondents to a survey commissioned by Discover Home Loans said they used online technology of one form or another in the home financing process. One of the benefits of technology is that it ...

Electronic signatures and records have become such crucial components of mortgage lending that lenders need to understand the process and the risks to avoid potential liability, according to panelists at a recent webinar. Several significant regulatory actions in 2014 opened the door to the increased adoption and use of electronic records and signatures. However, lenders face growing pressure from regulators to maintain appropriate measures when ...

“The industry seems to be cut out of some of the development of the securitization platform,” said Rep. Scott Garrett, R-NJ...

Thanks to its settlement with California regulators, Ocwen's share price is on the rise. But for how long?

One LO who works for a top-10 lender (a bank) said she actually sees her customers half the time...

Officials at Altisource Portfolio Solutions plan to provide services in the non-agency market as part of an effort to increase revenue and rely less on its former parent, Ocwen Financial. In a call with investors last week, CEO Bill Shepro said Altisource is developing products for members of the Lenders One mortgage cooperative. “The Lenders One members represent approximately 17 percent of the largely agency lending market, and with the banks withdrawing from ...

Roughly 90 percent of the time, residential loan officers never see the end mortgage customer, according to several weeks’ worth of interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance. However, few in the industry think it’s a problem. “We have the technology not to see our applicants,” said Jim Picard, vice president of home loans for Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union. The technology that Picard and others refer to is...