HousingWire Magazine selects Sales Boomerang for 2022 Tech100 Mortgage Awards

BALTIMORE, Md. /ScoopCloud/ — Sales Boomerang, the mortgage industry’s top-rated automated borrower intelligence and retention system, today announced that it has been selected as a HousingWire Magazine’s 2022 Tech100 Mortgage award winner for the third consecutive year. The HW Tech100 Awards recognizes the most innovative technology companies in the housing economy.

Mortgage Coach enhances integration with Black Knight’s Surefire to support lenders with mortgage education that helps convert borrowers at scale

IRVINE, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — Mortgage Coach, a borrower conversion platform empowering mortgage lenders to educate borrowers with interactive presentations that model home loan performance over time, today announced an enhanced integration with Surefire, Black Knight’s customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software designed specifically for the mortgage lending industry.

Recently Launched LoanMAPS™ LOS Now Integrated with DocMagic Eliminating Need for Disclosure Desk and Closing Department

TORRANCE, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance, and comprehensive eMortgage services, is pleased to announce that it has integrated multiple digital lending solutions with Take Three Technologies’ (“Take3”) cloud-based and fully-integrated loan origination system (LOS), LoanMAPS™.

Sales Boomerang teams up with OptifiNow to offer lenders an integrated experience for mortgage customer engagement

BALTIMORE, Md. /ScoopCloud/ — Sales Boomerang, the mortgage industry’s top-rated automated borrower intelligence and retention system, today announced its application programming interface (API) integration with OptifiNow, a cloud-based sales, marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The integration ensures accurate borrower data flows seamlessly and automatically between the two systems, giving lenders more time to focus on nurturing borrower relationships and exceeding sales goals.

FormFree’s AccountChek joins forces with Freddie Mac for industry-first automated assessment of direct deposit income

ATHENS, Ga. /ScoopCloud/ — FormFree® today announced that its AccountChek® digital asset verification service will support a first-of-its-kind solution from Freddie Mac that allows mortgage lenders to assess a prospective homebuyer’s income using direct deposit data. Available to mortgage lenders nationwide, Freddie Mac’s Loan Product Advisor® (LPASM) asset and income modeler (AIM) solution fulfills mortgage verification of assets (VOA) and verification of income (VOI) requirements.

Down Payment Resource welcomes Marcy Ash, AMP, as Director of Strategic Projects

ATLANTA, Ga. /ScoopCloud/ — Down Payment Resource (DPR), the nationwide database for U.S. homebuyer assistance programs, today announced it has appointed Marcy Ash, AMP, as director of strategic projects. In her role at DPR, Ash will manage relationships with state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) and spearhead industry partnerships and strategies that help DPR deliver greater value to its customers.

Spring EQ Offers Home Equity Loans to Brokers in Lender Price’s Marketplace

PASADENA, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — Lender Price, a provider of mortgage loan pricing and origination technology, announced today that Spring EQ has joined the Lender Price Marketplace as the first home equity loan lender on the platform. Spring EQ, headquartered in Philadelphia, is one of the nation’s largest lenders of home equity products.

ACES Quality Management adds Mortgage Bankers Association Economist Dr. Edward Seiler to ACES ENGAGE agenda

DENVER, Colo. /ScoopCloud/ — ACES Quality Management® (ACES), the leading provider of enterprise quality management and control software for the financial services industry, announced it has added Dr. Edward Seiler, housing economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and executive director of the MBA’s think tank Research Institute for Housing America, to its speaker line-up for the upcoming ACES ENGAGE conference.

ReverseVision Recruits Marketing Maven Scott Shepherd to Elevate Brand and Support Growth

SAN DIEGO, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — ReverseVision®, the leading national provider of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) and private reverse mortgage sales and origination technology, announced that seasoned marketing executive Scott Shepherd has joined the company to head its marketing efforts. As head of marketing, he oversees ReverseVision’s marketing department and is responsible for the design and implementation of its new marketing strategy.

Mortgage Coach unveils redesigned website

IRVINE, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — Mortgage Coach, a borrower conversion platform empowering mortgage lenders to educate borrowers with interactive presentations that model home loan performance over time, has announced the launch of a newly designed website. The website redesign offers visitors an enhanced user experience featuring immersive brand exploration opportunities and an enriched library of lender resources.

Sales Boomerang releases Q4 2021 Mortgage Market Opportunities Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. /ScoopCloud/ — Sales Boomerang, the mortgage industry’s top-rated automated borrower intelligence and retention system, today released its latest Mortgage Market Opportunities Report. The Q4 2021 report identified increasing opportunities for mortgage lenders to assist borrowers with tappable home equity, lending credence to analysts’ expectations for a surge in home-equity-related mortgage activity in 2022.

Down Payment Resource releases Q4 2021 Homeownership Program Index

ATLANTA, Ga. /ScoopCloud/ — Down Payment Resource (DPR), the nationwide database for U.S. homebuyer assistance programs, today announced the release of its latest Homeownership Program Index (HPI). The firm’s analysis of 2,192 homebuyer assistance programs in its DOWN PAYMENT RESOURCE® database showed measurable quarter-over-quarter gains in program funding levels and an increased prevalence of programs aimed at assisting community heroes.

IDS expands mortgage eClosing platform with addition of eVault

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah /ScoopCloud/ — Mortgage document preparation vendor International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), announced today that it has released its eVault, expanding the capabilities of its eClosing platform, Solitude Solution. With the addition of the eVault to Solitude Solution, lenders now have the ability to deliver documents, including eNotes, to partners though Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) eRegistry.

TMC Emerging Technology Fund LP Invests in Capacity

SAN DIEGO, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — The Mortgage Collaborative (TMC), the nation’s largest independent cooperative network serving the mortgage industry, announced today that the TMC Emerging Technology Fund LP (the “Fund”) recently participated in a $38M Series C investment round for AI Software, LLC dba Capacity. Capacity is an AI-powered support automation platform.

ReverseVision Hires Industry Veteran Steve Butler as Director of Business Development

SAN DIEGO, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — ReverseVision®, the leading national provider of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) and private reverse mortgage sales and origination technology, announced that it added long-time mortgage professional Steve Butler to the company’s sales team, who brings more than 35 years of experience to the company. ReverseVision has been adding resources in key functional areas as part of its strategic expansion plan.

Vice Capital Markets breaks internal trading volume record in 2021, helps clients achieve peak profitability

NOVI, Mich. /ScoopCloud/ — Vice Capital Markets, a leading mortgage hedge advisory firm for independent lenders, banks and credit unions, announced today that the company set a new internal trade volume record last year, trading more than $202 billion on behalf of its full service clients. Using an advantageous mix of delivery and execution, the company was able to help its clients capitalize profitably on each trade.

Housing Finance Strategies Announces #HousingDC22

WASHINGTON, D.C. /ScoopCloud/ — Housing Finance Strategies President Faith Schwartz today announced that the firm will host its annual housing policy and technology event on September 26-27, 2022. The returning support of #HousingDC22 sponsors is notable and a testament to the quality of the event.

Trust Lending Leveraging ReverseVision Platform to Grow Reverse Mortgage Wholesale Business

SAN DIEGO, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — ReverseVision®, the leading national provider of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) and private reverse mortgage sales and origination technology, announced that Trust Lending, a national mortgage banker, has gone live with ReverseVision’s Exchange (RVX) platform for its wholesale lending channel. The platform helped Trust Lending springboard its wholesale channel into easily and expeditiously originating loans for reverse mortgage products.

Promontory MortgagePath promotes Kevin Wheeler to managing director

DANBURY, Conn. /ScoopCloud/ — Promontory MortgagePath LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive digital mortgage and fulfillment solutions, announced today it has promoted Kevin Wheeler to managing director of product and engineering. Wheeler previously held the position of director of backend engineering at Promontory MortgagePath.

BankSouth Mortgage’s Shannon K. Bradshaw named 2022 Five Star Mortgage Professional

ATLANTA, Ga. /ScoopCloud/ — BankSouth Mortgage today announced that Senior Mortgage Banker Shannon K. Bradshaw has been recognized as a 2022 Five Star Mortgage Professional award winner. Each year, Five Star Professional honors outstanding real estate agents and mortgage professionals across the country, recognizing no more than 7% of all agents in a market.

Promontory MortgagePath Chief Compliance Officer Elisha Werner makes Mortgage Professional America’s list of 2021 Elite Women

DANBURY, Conn. /ScoopCloud/ — Leading digital mortgage and fulfillment solutions provider Promontory MortgagePath LLC announced its Chief Compliance Officer Elisha Werner has been named one of Mortgage Professional America’s (MPA) Elite Women 2021. The MPA Elite Women award seeks to honor women in the mortgage sector who are pushing boundaries to diversify a traditionally male-dominated industry.

Mortgage Coach promotes Jacob Gibbs to VP, Technology and Shannon Baldwin to VP, Marketing

IRVINE, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ — Mortgage Coach, a borrower conversion platform empowering mortgage lenders to educate borrowers with interactive presentations that model home loan performance over time, announced the promotion of two of its department directors to vice president-level positions. Jacob Gibbs was promoted from Director of Technology to VP, Technology, and Shannon Baldwin was promoted from Director of Marketing to VP, Marketing.