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Category: News and Trends
MBA Premier Member Editorial: The Hidden Cost of a Fragmented Tech Stack—and How to Fix It
Take a look at your tech stack, BeSmartee CEO & Co-Founder Tim Nguyen suggests.
TransUnion: Mortgage Originations, Delinquencies Both Up
TransUnion, Chicago, released its Q1 2025 Credit Industry Insights Report, finding that mortgage originations saw an annual increase at the end of last year.
Dealmaker: JLL Arranges $136M Refinancing for Fairmont Orchid in Hawaii
JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group arranged a $136 million refinancing for the Fairmont Orchid, a 540-key resort on Hawaii’s Big Island.
People in the News, June 3, 2025
Industry personnel news from FundingShield, Spectrum Solutions, ServiceLink, Certainty Home Lending, Merchants Bank and Westcor Land Title Insurance Co.
MBA Advocacy Update: Administration News on GSE Release, Fraud; Maryland Trust Licensing News
This week’s top legislative and policy news from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
MBA Premier Member Editorial: A Diminished CFPB–How Will States Respond?
Asurity’s Jonas Hoerler and Diane Jenkins write that with the scaling back and refocusing of the CFPB, the financial services industry is left with uncertainty about what the future holds.
Cotality: Hurricane Risk Distorting Property Markets in Unexpected Places
More than 33 million homes across the United States face hurricane wind risk–including many in areas that are not fully prepared to weather the storms–a new report from Cotality finds.
Q1 2025 Mortgage Bankers Performance Report
MBA’s Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report contains meaningful performance measures and benchmarks on IMB originations and servicing. Each report contains aggregate data on more than 300 IMBs.
Chart of the Week: Four-Quarter House Price Change by State, as of Q1 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, U.S. house prices increased 4% compared to the first quarter of 2024, as reported by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.