MBA NewsLink interviewed Timothy E. Steward, Senior Vice President and co-head of Midland Loan Services, a PNC Real Estate business. Steward leads a team of more than 500 professionals responsible for delivering loan servicing, asset management and technology solutions to the commercial real estate finance industry.

MBA NewsLink talked with Maurice Jourdain-Earl, Managing Director of ComplianceTech, McLean, Va., a provider of software and services to enable fair and responsible lending compliance. He is a noted speaker and writer on HMDA and fair lending practices and has appeared frequently at MBA events and sits on MBA’s member-led Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee.

Quicken Loans, Detroit, along with Amrock, its electronic closing provider, completed a Remote Online Notarization mortgage closing North Carolina, reportedly the first in the state.

LRES Corp., Orange, Calif., named Tina Suihkonen as Senior Director of Commercial Services. She will lead LRES’ commercial default services division and provide nationwide commercial trustee and foreclosure services.

In the last five years, lenders have made great strides with significant investments in best-in-class borrower experiences, navigating a plethora of new digital tools, all while adeptly navigating the ups and downs of the market. In my experience, unfortunately, most initiatives to cut costs and improve quality are short-lived or merely incremental. What I have found over my 25 years in this industry is that transformational growth only occurs when senior leadership commits itself to reevaluating their entire operating model.

(One of a continuing series of profiles of participants in the MBA Education Path to Diversity (P2D) Scholarship Program, which enables employees from diverse backgrounds to advance their professional growth and career development.)

Home buyers and sellers are growing more comfortable making the purchase or sale of their biggest financial asset entirely online, reported Zillow, Seattle.

The Largo Group of Cos., Getzville, N.Y. secured $107.3 million for retail, mixed-use and hotel properties in eight states and in Canada.