Industry Briefs, Jan. 12, 2026
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Williston Financial Group, Gold Capital Partners Launch Metro United Title and Escrow
Williston Financial Group, Portland, Ore., and Gold Capital Partners, Roseville, Calif., have formed Metro United Title and Escrow.
The new venture is launching operations in Arizona with planned expansion into multiple states this year. It’s centrally supported by WFG, which provides the technology backbone, operational support and title underwriting expertise.
Metro United Title and Escrow can deliver a full suite of title and escrow services.
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MeridianLink Announces Integration With Optimal Blue
MeridianLink, Costa Mesa, Calif., announced a new integration with Optimal Blue, Plano, Texas.
The integration will extend and strengthen the capabilities of MeridianLink Mortgage, part of the MeridianLink One platform, and enable lenders to access Optimal Blue’s PPE capabilities within the MeridianLink solution.
Lenders using MeridianLink Mortgage will be able to access the Optimal Blue PPE’s pricing across thousands of products and more than 150 investors in real time.
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Dovenmuehle Receives ISO/IEC 27001 Certification
Dovenmuehle Mortgage, Lake Zurich, Ill., received the ISO/IEC 27001 certification from NSF International Strategic Registrations.
The certification defines global benchmarks for information security management systems. It demonstrates that Dovenmuehle has established and maintains comprehensive, independently verified controls to identify, assess and mitigate data security risks.
It also follows the successful completion of DMI’s 2025 Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits.
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Ideal Mortgage Joins BlackFin as Preferred Partner
BlackFin Group, Englewood, Colo., announced that Ideal Mortgage, Denver, has become a Preferred Partner.
“Since day one of starting our mortgage company BlackFin has been a key partner to ensuring we developed a business foundation that would scale, provide us a competitive edge, and ensure long-term success,” said Jeff Toomire, Co-Founder & CEO of Ideal. “Now that we are attracting leading loan officer teams nationwide, it was an obvious next step for us to leverage more of the value that BlackFin will bring us by becoming a Preferred Partner with the industry leader in mortgage banking consulting.”
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