SettlementOne, a provider of credit reporting, data, and verification solutions for the mortgage industry, announced an innovative partnership with Halcyon to eliminate one of mortgage lending’s most persistent bottlenecks: manual income calculation.
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Planet Home Lending, a national mortgage lender, servicer, and asset manager, has named Chris Carr (NMLS ID# 403758) as Area Sales Manager in the Minneapolis-Metro Area in Minnesota. With nearly 30 years of industry experience, Carr is licensed in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin—where he will lead regional growth—as well as Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee, and Florida.
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Usherpa, developers of a Customer Relationship Engagement Platform (REP), has integrated with with Wilqo, the industry’s newest Production Optimization Platform (POP). With this announcement, Usherpa becomes the first CRM to offer a direct integration with Wilqo, giving the company’s lender users a seamless bridge between borrower engagement and loan manufacturing.
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MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act (H.R. 1815) by unanimous consent:
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Mortgage Connect, L.P., an independent mortgage service providers, has partnered with Westcor Land Title Insurance Company and X1 Analytics to develop a product for Fannie Mae’s Title Acceptance program. The pilot is part of an ongoing effort by FHFA and Fannie Mae to modernize the mortgage closing process and reduce costs for consumers and taxpayers.
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Informative Research (IR), a technology provider delivering data-driven credit and verification solutions to the lending community, announced the availability of Halcyon’s IRS tax transcript service within the IR Verification Platform. This enhancement expands Informative Research’s suite of verification of income and employment (VOI/E) options, enabling lenders to access secure, permissioned tax transcript data directly from the IRS through Halcyon’s technology.
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Mortgage applications increased 9.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 4, 2025. Last week’s results included an adjustment for the July 4th holiday.
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Veros Real Estate Solutions (Veros®) released its Q2 2025 VeroFORECAST. The forecast projects an average nationwide home price appreciation rate of 2.2% over the next 12 months.
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Atlas VMS announced the acquisition of AIM-Port, a proven order management platform purpose-built by an AMC. This strategic move marks a significant step for Atlas, laying the foundation for the development of future technology-driven solutions that better serve lenders and appraisal management companies nationwide.
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CBC Mortgage Agency (CBCMA) and Guild Mortgage have launched a national initiative to help more Americans achieve homeownership, beginning with a free public event in Columbia, South Carolina, aimed at demystifying the home buying process and affordable mortgage options.
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