A new research paper analyzing the risks and opportunities for disruption in the housing finance system notes that new business models and services make the entire mortgage industry ripe for change. Although the paper by the Collingwood Group notes that disruption is inevitable in any industry, it said it is most predictable in an industry faced with conditions where the current model is too challenging, inefficient, costly and unresponsive to customer and business needs. “With no fundamental changes to origination processes in decades, lost efficiency, growing regulatory hurdles, high costs and low profits, there is...