Compliance

As the industry prepares for the March 1, 2026 start of mandatory nationwide reporting under the new FinCEN Residential Real Estate Rule, WFG National Title Insurance Company, a Williston Financial Group company, announced a suite of FinCEN reporting solutions designed to help title agents meet new federal requirements with speed, confidence and minimal operational disruption.

Alanna.ai and Settlor have collaborated in developing flexible technology solutions to ensure title and escrow companies comply with new federal regulatory reporting requirements under the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Anti-Money Laundering (FinCEN) rule, which are scheduled to take effect March 1, 2026.

ServiceLink continues to cement its position as an industry Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 leader, ensuring readiness at every stage of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s (GSEs) UAD 3.6 Forms Redesign rollout. Representing its latest UAD 3.6 readiness step, ServiceLink announced its partnership with Grid-ML LLC to be the first AMC in the industry to offer its new UAD 3.6 Interactive Reference Guide to ServiceLink’s appraiser panel at no extra cost.

Benutech, a real estate technology solutions provider, has launched ClientVerify.ai, a workflow software that fully digitizes documentation validation and compliance protocols to bring greater speed and accuracy to real estate transactions.

Ncontracts released “The Future of Compliance: Benchmarking the People, Processes, and Pressures Shaping Compliance in 2026,” a comprehensive survey examining how financial institutions are navigating evolving compliance expectations and regulatory complexity.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) opened registration for the Mortgage Compliance Dataset (MCD) Tech Sprint kickoff event. The Mortgage Compliance Dataset is designed to streamline supervisory compliance examinations for residential mortgage loans.

Asurity Technologies, LLC® (“Asurity®”), a provider of mortgage compliance technology, announced the successful integration of RegCheck®, Asurity’s real-time loan-level compliance solution, with Calyx Path®, the enterprise-grade, cloud-based loan origination system (LOS) from Calyx®, a trusted name in mortgage technology for banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers, and brokers.

Lender Toolkit, a mortgage efficiency cooperative, reaffirmed its strategic advantage for lenders facing growing compliance complexity, as federal regulators consider nationwide lending standards to replace fragmented state-level rules.

Alanna.ai, the creator of a suite of AI-powered tools for title agents, has introduced Alanna Sign, a digital signing capability. The feature is an enhancement to alanna.ai Smart Forms and is designed to streamline the new data collection and reporting requirements installed by the FinCEN Anti-Money Laundering rule, which takes effect December 1, 2025.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has sued Experian, the nationwide consumer reporting agency, for unlawfully failing to properly investigate consumer disputes. The CFPB alleges that Experian does not take sufficient steps to intake, process, investigate, and notify consumers about consumer disputes, resulting in the inclusion of incorrect information on credit reports. Inaccurate or false information on consumer reports can threaten consumers’ access to credit, employment, and housing.