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Lender Toolkit launches IT services for ICE Encompass users

Lender Toolkit announced Monday the official launch of its IT services offering, designed specifically for lenders that use ICE Mortgage Technology‘s Encompass platform. Lender Toolkit is a mortgage automation technology company and the creator of the industry’s only fully integrated Mortgage Efficiency Cooperative. The company’s new IT services practice adds support for independent mortgage banks […]

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Tech Pulse: UWM challenges industry AI fear; Optimal Blue automates refi opportunities

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — a new weekly series rounding up the latest in technology, including tools, integrations and trends impacting mortgage and real estate. Here’s what happened this week: UWM’s Jason Bressler challenges the fear-driven narrative around AI in mortgage lending At HousingWire’s The Gathering, United Wholesale Mortgage Chief Technology Offficer Jason Bressler challenged fears about

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Americans tapped $25B in home equity in Q1 2025

U.S. homeowners tapped nearly $25 billion in home equity through second-lien mortgages during the first quarter of 2025 — the largest volume for this period in 17 years, according to the ICE Mortgage Technology‘s newest Mortgage Monitor report. That marks a 22% increase compared to the same quarter last year. The first quarter is typically

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Layoffs hit Dark Matter Technologies

Dozens of employees at mortgage tech firm Dark Matter Technologies were laid off on Monday, multiple sources told HousingWire. It’s unclear how many were laid off, but sources said it was “massive” and impacted staffers in a variety of roles. Former employees told HousingWire the reason cited for the layoffs was the shaky “economy” and

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