The 2025 Lending Luminary Award Winners Are …
A luminary is defined as “a person who inspires or influences others.” And that type of person is exactly who we are honoring. The 2025 Winners Are …
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Cornerstone Capital Bank To Acquire Peoples Bank
Cornerstone Capital Bancorp, Inc. (“Cornerstone” or the “Company”), the holding company for Cornerstone Capital Bank, and Peoples Bancorp, Inc. (“Peoples”), the holding company for Peoples Bank, a community bank headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Cornerstone will acquire by merger, Peoples.
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Prudent AI Launches Industry’s First AI-Powered Platform, Fully Integrated With Fannie Mae’s Income Calculator
Prudent AI today launched the industry’s first AI-powered platform, fully integrated with Fannie Mae’s Income Calculator. The enterprise-ready platform delivers instant qualified income calculations with speed and accuracy.
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Alpha7X Launches To Eliminate Redundant Data Reviews Using Agentic AI
Alpha7X, an agentic AI utility infrastructure that connects, validates and synchronizes mortgage data and eliminates redundant loan reviews, announced its official launch. The patent-pending platform empowers lenders, servicers, custodians and investors to orchestrate and execute data reviews up to seven times faster, turning fragmented information into a single, intelligent source of truth.
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September New Home Purchase Mortgage Applications Increased 2.0 Percent
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for September 2025 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 2.0 percent compared from a year ago. Compared to August 2025, applications decreased by 5 percent. This change does not include any adjustment for typical seasonal patterns.
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LoanCare Enhances Its Digital Retention Platform
LoanCare, a national mortgage subservicer, announced two new enhancements to its suite of digital retention tools that will give clients additional customer refinance signals and help them gain critical intelligence on loan payoffs.
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Integration Offers More Transparency, Faster Turn Times And Fewer Manual Steps In The Appraisal Process
Cloudvirga, a Stewart-owned provider of digital point-of-sale platforms for lenders, announced the integration of its Horizon POS with Stewart Valuation Intelligence, LLC (SVI), a national provider of appraisal management and residential real estate valuation services. Borrowers applying on a self-serve basis can request an appraisal directly, while loan officers can initiate and manage orders when completing an application on a borrower’s behalf.
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Dark Matter Technologies Enhances Its Empower LOS With Full-Scale eClosing Capabilities
Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter) has expanded its Empower loan origination system (LOS) to include comprehensive eClosing capabilities by integrating Wolters Kluwer’s eOriginal ClosingCenter and eOriginal eAsset Management Platform.
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Lender Selects Non‑QM PPE For Wholesale And Correspondent Channels
Verus Mortgage Capital (VMC), a correspondent investor specializing in non‑agency and non‑QM products, has selected the LoanPASS product‑and‑pricing engine (PPE) to power pricing and eligibility across its wholesale and correspondent channels. The selection of LoanPASS, a rules‑based decisioning platform, underscores VMC’s commitment to automation, transparency and efficient decisioning in the growing non‑QM market.
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Tech Development’s Future
This edition of our magazine tackles pressing issues such as …
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