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Interfirst Mortgage Company (Interfirst and/or Company), a private equity-backed mortgage originator, is opening a strategic hub in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has hired industry veteran Casey Nunn as Vice President of National Sales Group. The office will serve as a second headquarters for the Company’s wholesale business.

SLK Global Solutions, a provider of technology-enabled platform solutions for the financial services industry, has added Ken Fries as Vice President of Business Development in a move to strengthen its Insurance solutions team, one of the company’s fastest growing business lines. In his new role, Ken will oversee the growth of the company’s Property & Casualty Insurance and Lender Placed Insurance solutions.

SLK Global Solutions, a provider of digital platforms and business process management solutions to the banking, mortgage and financial services industry, has enabled a leading U.S. bank that originates residential mortgages to improve its underwriting efficiency and speed up closings by 11 days through its pre-underwriting support solution LoanAccel.

Black Knight, Inc. has launched Seller Digital, a new correspondent lending platform that helps lenders track commitment pipelines, manage conditions and validate pricing to register and lock Best Efforts loans and allocate Mandatory loans to commitments.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for December 2020 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 42.2 percent compared from a year ago. Compared to November 2020, applications increased by 0.2 percent. This change does not include any adjustment for typical seasonal patterns.

Mortgage applications increased 16.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 8, 2021. The previous week’s results included an adjustment for the holidays.

Williston Financial Group (WFG), the Portland-based parent company of WFG National Title Insurance Company, a full-service provider of title insurance and real estate settlement services for commercial and residential transactions nationwide, continues its quarterly podcast series, “Economic Outlook & Title Insurance in a Turbulent Era,” featuring WFG Executive Chairman and Founder Patrick F. Stone and Economist Dr. Bill Conerly, on Wednesday, January 21, 2021 at 10 am EST / 7 am PST.

SitusAMC Holdings Corp. (“SitusAMC”), a provider of technology and services to the real estate finance industry and licensed fulfillment partner, has acquired ReadyPrice and its mortgage technology that seamlessly connects mortgage loan originators (MLOs) and lenders to facilitate more efficient loan originations.