Industry Briefs, July 29, 2025
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A&D Mortgage Introduces VA Programs
A&D Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced the launch of two new VA loan programs designed to help veterans, active-duty service members and their families.
One is the VA Standard Loan, which allows qualified borrowers to buy, build, repair, maintain or adapt a primary residence, with loan amounts up to $2 million.
The other is the VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan, helping existing VA loan holders lower their monthly payments and interest rates, with loan amounts up to $1.5 million.
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Blend, Doma Deepen Partnership
Blend Labs, San Francisco, announced an expanded partnership with Doma, San Francisco, that will bring Doma’s AI-powered Upfront Title into Blend’s home lending platform.
The integration provides lenders with instant title decisions directly within the borrower application flow. By surfacing title decisions early, lenders can identify potential issues sooner.
Upfront Title is available now to all Blend customers with a Doma relationship. Broader enhancements to the integration are planned for the second half of the year, aiming to further expand its functionality and value.
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Friday Harbor Launches Open APIs
Friday Harbor, Seattle, announced the availability of open APIs, giving lenders and vendors more flexibility in integrating Friday Harbor into their mortgage tech stack.
Lenders can bring the power of AI-assisted file review into any workflow, regardless of which LOS, POS or internal tools they use. The APIs are designed to support rapid onboarding.
Vendors such as LOS and POS providers can use the open APIs to build native integrations that deliver Friday Harbor’s capabilities directly within their user interfaces. Lenders can then ingest any borrower document and automatically identify conditions within Friday Harbor, use Friday Harbor’s web-native experience to resolve conditions in real time and sync resolved issues and audit-ready documentation back to their system of record.
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ATTOM Expands Data Delivery Solutions
ATTOM, Irvine, Calif., announced the availability of its comprehensive property datasets on Snowflake, Bozeman, Mont. This marks the latest step in ATTOM’s expansion of cloud-based delivery systems.
ATTOM is also broadening its delivery options with the launch of Parquet file delivery, including support for GeoParquet.
The integration will allow clients to work with ATTOM’s property data directly within the Snowflake environment, streamlining analytics workflows and accelerating time to insight. They can incorporate ATTOM’s data, including ownership details, tax assessments, neighborhood data and transaction history into their cloud-native analytics environments.
The Parquet and GeoParquet delivery options give clients optimized access to ATTOM data, supporting traditional and geospatial use cases such as property boundary analysis, map-based applications and machine-learning models.
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Planet Home Lending Offering eNote Acceptance
Planet Home Lending, Meriden, Conn., announced it is accepting electronic promissory notes (eNotes) for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans.
The practice can help improve execution, eliminate signature errors and enhance borrower satisfaction, the release said.
To participate, lenders must be integrated with a MERS-compliant eVault provider and follow Planet’s eNote delivery instructions, available to approved sellers.
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Dovenmuehle Announces Completion of 2025 SOC 1, SOC 2 Type 2
Dovenmuehle, Lake Zurich, Ill., announced successful completion of its 2025 Service Organization Control 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits.
The audits were conducted by Plante Moran, Auburn Hills, Mich.
The SOC 1 Type 2 report evaluates the effectiveness of Dovenmuehle’s internal controls relevant to financial reporting, and the SOC 2 Type 2 report examines the effectiveness of the firm’s systems and controls related to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.
The SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports are now available to all Dovenmuehle clients via DMIConnect under the “DMI Corporate Documents” tab. Clients can also request the reports from their Account Manager.
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