As mortgage lenders weigh how to integrate artificial intelligence, technology leaders are juggling the rapid pace of innovation with the need to set realistic expectations. They’re finding that effective adoption depends as much on curiosity, patience and internal collaboration as it does on the tools themselves — and that buy-in from executives, compliance teams and […]
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Digital earnest money platform Earnnest is expanding its partnership with Lone Wolf, according to an announcement on Thursday. Via this expanded partnership, Earnnest will power digital earnest money transfers across Lone Wolf’s entire transaction suite. “Real estate professionals deserve tools they can trust – especially when it comes to handling money,” Chris Basinger, the senior
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Shawn Malhotra, the first chief technology officer in the history of Rocket Companies, says it’s pursuing an ambitious plan — to rewrite its entire operating system, from home search through mortgage servicing, on a foundation of artificial intelligence. The transformation will happen while Rocket integrates real estate brokerage Redfin and mortgage servicer Mr. Cooper Group,
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New Western and PadSplit have entered a partnership aimed at increasing affordable co-living housing, effective last week. New Western cofounder and President Kurt Carlton told HousingWire the collaboration will allow investors to access PadSplit’s model for converting single-family homes into shared living spaces — while leveraging New Western’s large property inventory. “(PadSplit) will help you
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Sumanth Kamath — chief technology officer at eXp Realty — took the stage Tuesday in Dallas at HousingWire’s AI Summit to share how his company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiency, empower employees and scale operations. In a conversation with HousingWire Senior Director of Data and Content Tracey Velt, Kamath described a sweeping
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United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) chief technology officer Jason Bressler delivered a blunt message to mortgage professionals while on stage Tuesday at HousingWire’s AI Summit. The doom and gloom of high interest rates and industry consolidation aren’t going away soon, he said — but the practical use of artificial intelligence could give brokers a competitive edge. Lenders,
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Eric Chesin, the chief strategy officer for Anywhere Real Estate, believes the industry is in the middle of a “magic moment for progress and change” brought about by the ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence.. “It basically threw all of us into transforming our business,” Chesin said from the stage Tuesday at HousingWire’s AI Summit. “The
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In tandem with its Q2 2025 earnings release, Blend Labs, Inc. announced that Jason Ream will join as the company’s Head of Finance and Administration. Ream, who has over 25 years of experience as a financial and operating leader in technology and software, previously served as the CFO of two public companies, SailPoint Technologies Holdings,
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Lending software platform MeridianLink will go back into private hands after announcing Monday it had agreed to terms of an acquisition deal with investment management firm Centerbridge Partners. The deal to reprivatize the Irvine, California-based technology provider is the latest in a wave of mortgage-related mergers and acquisitions this year and also comes as advances
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The Federal Trade Commission recently highlighted the dramatic surge in scams targeting older adults that has increased pressure on U.S. banks and credit unions to enhance their fraud prevention measures. The FTC said a growing wave of scams has taken aim at retirees’ life savings, with fraudsters often impersonating trusted government agencies and businesses to
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