Hadyn Richards Jr. is a partner in the Bradley law firm

Wither AI: don’t count on an all-automated loan anytime soon

The federal law putting into place education, registration and — for non-depository originators — licensing requirements, applies only to human beings. Yet, don’t count on an all-automated loan happening anytime soon. Processing Content The conclusion comes from a new Mortgage Bankers Association white paper, written by the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, titled […]

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Securitized market stepping up preparations for new scores

Rating agencies and others are secondary market participants increasingly looking more closely at how to handle modernized credit scores for residential mortgage-backed securities now that government-related agencies have committed to the metrics. Processing Content Morningstar DBRS and Standard & Poor’s have joined KBRA in analysis and proposed conversion of VantageScore 4.0 into classic FICO, while

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Elizabeth Green is senior vice president, valuation solutions for ServiceLink and chair of of the MISMO Property and Valuation Services Community.

MISMO issues appraisal spec updates to support UAD 3.6

The leading mortgage industry procedural standards organization provided an update to appraisal specifications, aligning them to a change in reporting rules governing data delivery that become mandatory this year.  Processing Content The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization made changes to its Property and Valuation Services procurement dataset specification this week in a move that will

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