To expand its wholesale lending initiative and help its originators price loans more efficiently, Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate has picked MortgageHub's LoanFactory decisioning, product, and pricing engine and Wholesale Internet Lending applications.Conshohocken, Pa.-based MortgageHub offers a Web services platform to deliver Internet-based systems for wholesale, retail, and servicing functions. Guaranteed Rate will use the wholesale system to start serving 100 brokers immediately, with the intention of expanding to 500 by year-end, the company said. The MortgageHub wholesale system offers to eliminate costly paper, fax and phone communications between wholesaler and broker. Guaranteed Rate can be found online at http://www.guaranteedrate.com.
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Rejections for mortgage credit outpaced almost every other borrowing category, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said the FICO credit-scoring model has drawbacks in price, predictiveness and market competition, and stakeholders should develop a more open-sourced model that uses artificial intelligence.
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Smaller players face challenges when it comes to mortgage servicing rights, and larger ones have varying motivations, experts at an industry meeting say.
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The 30-year fixed rate mortgage average resumed its climb that started in September, as the benchmark 10-year Treasury price still reflects views on inflation.
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Fannie Mae's latest economic forecast no longer expects mortgage rates to go below 6% next year, and that is affecting its views on loan origination volume.
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Amid steady customer growth, USAA's banking arm failed to make the investments necessary to satisfy either its regulators or some decades-long customers. Changes in the executive suite haven't fixed the problems.
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