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Piggy-backing payment deferral success from the pandemic, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) just announced that beginning July 1, 2023, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can offer borrowers under financial duress, a six-month reprieve through...
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Are you suffering from regulatory fatigue? Has managing the latest default triggers become arduous? Whether from post-pandemic, pre-recession, or...
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Or are you stuck by the side of the road as others pass by? It’s time to stop doing the same thing… and getting the same results. The obstacles that...
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Regulatory and rulemaking actions were just released for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and...
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When was the last time you reviewed your borrower communication practices? As technology options continue to expand, so follows oversight. The...
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Don’t be deluded by ongoing reports of decreasing delinquency and foreclosure. As is often the case, it depends on which numbers you’re watching....
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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....
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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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Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers have quit their jobs during the pandemic, with nursing being hit hardest. As evidenced in the Morning Consult Study,...
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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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In the healthcare industry, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a cornerstone assessment method that evaluates the student...
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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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So what does reducing waste in healthcare mean? Healthcare waste is defined as time, dollars, and services that do not add value - and can sometimes...
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What do you do when the standard approach to readmission reductions isn’t moving the dial on penalties? Your organization has implemented...
