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FirstClose Collaborates With Cotality To Deliver A Streamlined Home Equity Lending Platform

FirstClose, a fintech provider of data and workflow solutions for home equity and mortgage lenders nationwide, announced a strategic alliance with Cotality, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider that supports 80% of real estate transactions in North America. Together, the companies are delivering an integrated home equity lending platform designed to help banks, credit unions and independent mortgage banks (IMBs) deliver a streamlined borrower experience and close home equity loans in as little as seven days.

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Tavant Launches Mortgage Data Foundry To Advance Data-Driven Lending And AI Innovation

Tavant has launched Tavant Mortgage Data Foundry, a solution that enables lenders to lower the cost of originating a loan and close more of the business in their pipeline. The Mortgage Data Foundry integrates data in real time from mortgage enterprise systems into one governed, AI-ready foundation targeted to be deployed on the lender’s cloud data platform and anchored to MISMO standards.

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Acquisition Expands Optimal Blue’s Originator Capabilities

Optimal Blue has acquired Usherpa, a marketing automation and borrower
relationship engagement platform purpose-built for mortgage
professionals. The acquisition expands Optimal Blue’s ability to help
lenders win more business by bringing borrower engagement capabilities
closer to the product, pricing and eligibility solutions that over
200,000 originators use to identify and convert loan opportunities.

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