Jane Mason

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Should Servicers Be Worried About the CFPB's Key Observations?

The industry is migrating from forbearance to foreclosure, and mortgage servicers are seeing another change in the makeup of their default servicing portfolios. Forbearance volume is plateauing as the number of loans entering forbearance more...

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How Do Servicers Outpace Rising Foreclosure Activity With Mounting Oversight?

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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Solutions to 5 Key Observations in the Latest CFPB Response Metrics Report

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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A Storm is Coming. Is Your Servicing Organization Ready?

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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As Foreclosure Moratoria Expire, Are You Managing Uncertainty With Seamless Servicing?

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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How Servicers Can Simplify the Shifting of Borrowers Out of Forbearance

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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How to Accelerate Your Mortgage Servicing Efforts with Seamless Servicing

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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How to Mitigate the Possibility of Consent Orders with Modern Automation

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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How is Your Mortgage Servicing Shop Holding Up Under Unrelenting Pressure?

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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How the Pandemic Influence is Creating a New Perspective on Servicing Automation

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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Automated Workflow

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Automated Workflow - Elevate the Power with Shared Data

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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Loss Mitigation

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Do You Have the Right Loss Mitigation Partner for COVID-19?

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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customer centric servicing

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Do You Know What the New Decade Holds for Customer-Centric Servicing?

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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mobile technology

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It’s Time to Bring Mobile Access to Your Servicing Back Office

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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2019 Hurricane season predictions

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Servicers get ready … NOAA predicts another “above-normal” hurricane season

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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Vendor Management

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Don’t Put Your Vendor Partnerships at Risk as Innovation Progresses

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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Workflow for Loan Servicing

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The Value of Workflow When Pursuing Digitization for Loan Servicing

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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Workflow Automation Technology

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How to Use Automation to Drive More Business to Your Organization

The industry continues to hunger for technology to improve workflow, as well as streamline and automate operational efficiencies. While these...

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Property Rehab Post Disaster

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The Ongoing Challenge of Collateral Rehab on Disaster-Stricken Properties

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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Disaster Relief

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How Are You Handling Disaster Relief Demand?

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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Are you disaster ready?

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Is Your Team Disaster Relief Ready?

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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Disaster Relief

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Are Your Operational Processes Up For The Disaster Relief Challenge?

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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Workflow Fills the Gaps

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How to Fill the Gaps in Your Servicing Processes

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...

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Digital Transformation

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Implementation Survival Guide: 5 Tips for Success

Your organization is in the midst of a digital transformation and new technology is on the horizon. You have survived through the research, vendor...

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Workflow

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6 Ways Workflow Works for You

A carpenter’s workshop is their toolbox. Within it, there are power drills which make it easier than a screwdriver to drill a screw into hardwood....

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