While the first few years of the mortgage industry’s relationship with artificial intelligence have been characterized by new gadgets and fear of missing out, 2026’s themes might center on how companies manage to catch up with its game-changing potential. Processing Content If or when they do, the industry should start to see standardization and scalability […]
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For the mortgage industry, 2025 is likely to go down as the year of the big deal. But that could be a temporary title as some experts expect the consolidation wave to continue in the new year. Still among the biggest of the big: But what might have been the most celebrated deal of all,
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Digital real estate platform Realpha will acquire Instamortgage, adding the direct lender to its growing home finance network and furthering goals to build a one-stop artificial intelligence-backed homebuying experience. Processing Content The move by the Dublin, Ohio-based technology firm, which has origins as a home purchase and sales platform, expands the company into lending after
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Among the changes mortgage businesses are trying to adjust to in the age of artificial intelligence, marketing strategy could turn out to be the trickiest to understand and implement. Processing Content AI has ushered in a new landscape for digital marketing across all types of businesses, and where search-engine optimization once governed how companies made
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Several of the mortgage industry’s biggest story lines from 2025 are expected to take clearer shape in 2026, according to industry participants who shared their outlooks with National Mortgage News. Among the developments gaining traction are the potential arrival of the 50-year mortgage, the full rollout of credit score modernization and further consolidation after a
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Bob Hart will become president of ICE Mortgage Technology on Jan. 1, as part of a corporate shuffle which will move Tim Bowler to another unit at Intercontinental Exchange. Processing Content Most recently, Hart, who joined Intercontinental Exchange as part of the Ellie Mae acquisition, was the mortgage unit’s senior vice president of business and
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Mortgage stakeholders are applauding President Trump’s latest executive order seeking to curb state-level regulation around artificial intelligence. Processing Content The Trump Administration will target state laws and challenge them in court, and withhold certain grant funding for states with AI laws it deems onerous, according to the order signed Thursday. The directive suggests existing state
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Aerial View of a Manufactured, Mobile, Prefab Home Being Removed from a Lot in a ParkGreg Kelton – stock.adobe.com ETHZilla, one of the largest Ethereum treasuries in the United States, is entering the housing market with a recent partnership, further expanding its move toward real-world assets. Processing Content The technology company announced a deal Wednesday
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Renters using Esusu programs have reportedly realized an average increase of 45 points to their credit scores.Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Rent reporting platform Esusu raised $50 million in a Series C funding round, which it plans to use to scale three specific programs. Processing Content The New York City-based fintech now counts total capital raised to over
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A class action lawsuit claims a ransomware gang stole more than 20 terabytes of information from vendor Evolve Mortgage Services in a purported incident the company has not disclosed. Processing Content Former employee Rebekah Hardy sued Evolve last month in a Texas federal court for negligence, for failing to protect consumers’ data in a breach
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