Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) released the October 2026 ICE Mortgage Monitor Report. The analysis finds that adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) are drawing renewed borrower interest as mortgage rates climb. ARMs accounted for nearly 11% of rate locks, their largest share in nearly four years, as ICE’s Conforming 30-year Fixed Rate Index surpassed 7% the week of Sept. 18.
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Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter) announced an integration with Mezzo, creator of the mortgage industry’s first one-to-many operating architecture for third-party services. Available through Dark Matter’s Exchange Partner Marketplace, the integration gives lenders using the Empower Loan Origination Solution a single gateway and workflow across multiple verification providers, with standardized reporting and without the cost and timeline of individual vendor integrations.
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EquityProtect, a provider of real estate fraud prevention and data security, released its quarterly Property Protection Scorecard, finding that 12 states now have dedicated deed theft laws, up from seven when the Scorecard launched in April. New laws in Alabama and Maryland take effect today, and Arizona’s took effect Sept. 12.
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Sendzie, LLC announced its official launch into the mortgage market, introducing a new way of elevating the customer experience. Sendzie gives every borrower one personal place to stay connected with their loan officer, showing where they are, what’s next and what they need, while automatically delivering timely, personal communication at every stage of the loan.
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TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced that it will extend its mortgage pricing for VantageScore® 4.0 through December 2028, providing lenders, mortgage resellers and other industry participants with long-term pricing certainty as adoption of modern credit scoring models continues to accelerate.
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LoanPASS launched LoanPASS AUS, a configurable, rules-based automated underwriting system designed to help lenders automate complex credit decisions without forcing their products into a standardized credit box.
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Rocket Mortgage, part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), announced it will become the first mortgage lender to use VantageScore 4.0 as its preferred credit scoring model for all eligible loans. After roughly four months of testing, the company found that VantageScore helped more clients qualify and move forward in the mortgage process, while also reducing credit scoring costs.
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MISMO®, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, today announced the release of the Automated Valuation Model (AVM) Testing Guidance and Best Practices, a best-practice guide that gives lenders a standardized method for testing automated valuation models.
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Commercial mortgage delinquencies were mixed in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest Commercial Delinquency Report.
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Homebuyer affordability improved modestly in August, with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants decreasing to $2,162 from $2,175 in July. This is according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI), which measures how new monthly mortgage payments vary across time – relative to income – using data from MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey (WAS).
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