Author name: Ricky Vasquez

What monkeys and Valentine’s Day teach us about trust in real estate

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, many successful real estate agents across the country will be doing what they do every February: dropping off chocolates, flowers, handwritten cards, and in a few ambitious cases, cherry pies, on their clients’ doorsteps. And weirdly… it works. Not because chocolate makes people sell their house.Not because cherry […]

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From policy to practice: AI in the mortgage industry

AI isn’t the biggest risk to mortgage lending right now. Policy misunderstanding is. While lenders across the country are moving quickly to implement artificial intelligence responsibly, state legislators are moving just as quickly to regulate it. And when policy moves faster than the policymakers’ understanding, unintended consequences follow. As former Cisco CEO John Chambers recently

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Sridhar Sharma is the president of Sagent

Mr. Cooper exec jumps to Sagent for AI rollout

Mortgage servicing technology provider Sagent has hired another former Mr. Cooper executive to a leading role, naming Sridhar Sharma as president. Processing Content Sridhar Sharma, formerly chief innovation and digital officer at Mr. Cooper, is the new president of Sagent. Sharma joins Chris Marshall, the former Mr. Cooper president who became Sagent’s executive chairman in

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