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What does the CFPB’s recent initiative to curate mortgage products and assist homeowners have to do with mortgage servicing? More than you think. Part of a broader initiative, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is specifically looking for...
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What’s next on the mortgage horizon? Lenders are feeling the pinch as interest rates make an uphill trek. On a broader scale, foreclosure activity...
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The industry is migrating from forbearance to foreclosure, and mortgage servicers are seeing another change in the makeup of their default servicing...
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Have you seen the latest foreclosure stats? The picture they paint isn’t a pretty one. The June 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows an increase...
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Not all servicers are alike, whether it’s size, portfolio composition, delinquency rates, or other criteria. Despite these disparities, the CFPB is...
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Correction, the title should read 19 storms are coming. At least that’s the prediction released last month by Colorado State University. The Atlantic...
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We’ve just passed the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 foreclosure moratoria and are quickly rounding the corner on the first quarter of 2022. Where...
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The latest numbers reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association illustrate the volatility that remains in forbearance volume for servicers. As of...
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Are you ready to put 2021 behind you? Mortgage servicers continue to try to keep up as their segment of the business is inundated by pandemic...
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Servicing institutions are well aware of the need to stay out in front of agency scrutiny, examinations, and of course consent orders. But what...
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Exhausted by change? Every company, mortgage-based or otherwise, is experiencing a shift in automation as an essential part of business. The timing...
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The mortgage industry, financial services, and FinTech arenas have all received a boost from technology during struggles to provide relief under...
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Workflow is defined as a systemic distribution of tasks, information, and documents to users or groups for action based on a predefined set of...
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It is hard to imagine that we are approaching the three-month mark for working under COVID-19. Keeping up with industry change as we continue to...
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Clarifire recently released its white paper on the current approach to customer-centric servicing and the corresponding key drivers as we head into a...
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Today’s customers demand far more than an automated process from their mortgage bank or servicer. As servicers strive to improve overall efficiency...
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The 2019 hurricane season is already off to a troubling start with Hurricane Dorian having caused an estimated $1.5 billion to $3 billion in...
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A lot of industry attention is currently focused on the finish line for the digitizing of the mortgage business, with mortgage lenders, servicers,...
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The mortgage industry’s latest buzz word is “digital mortgage,” a novel term for the ongoing pursuit to remove paper from the process. However, this...
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The industry continues to hunger for technology to improve workflow, as well as streamline and automate operational efficiencies. While these...
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Over the past few months, Clarifire has published meaningful discussions on the numerous requirements mortgage servicers have taken on to manage...
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Is hurricane season over? Not if you’re a loan servicer. Given the skyrocketing amount of devastation caused by hurricanes, wildfires, flooding and...
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What does it mean to be disaster ready? As a servicer you’re already juggling a variety of change initiatives at any given time, with unreasonably...
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The end of this year’s hurricane season is less than two months away; however, with hurricane Florence barely in our rearview, are your operational...
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From loan origination to loan payoff, there are multiple paths that a loan can take throughout its lifecycle. The best performing loans will follow a...
