Paul Weakley: The Art of Engineering

So, just how do architects, stakeholders, product owners, designers and users better interact with a mortgage software engineer? The first step is to understand what an engineer is and does.

A Conversation with Scott Gesell, CEO of Gateway First Bank

Scott Gesell was recently appointed as CEO of Gateway First Bank, Tulsa, Okla. He has been an integral part of Gateway First Bank’s leadership since 2013. During his time at Gateway, he played a leading role in the merger of a 100-year-old community bank with a 20-year-old mortgage company to become Gateway First Bank.

Nate Johnson: 3 Ideas Toward a Fast, Efficient, Profitable Mortgage Operations Process

The U.S. real estate industry is in a volatile state – as much, if not more, than it was during the 2008 financial crisis. We are seeing some record numbers in the mortgage industry with rising foreclosures, really low interest rates, and shortage of inventory. This does seem to be a stable environment, though – but while things seem to fall in place at times, the next moment new factors disrupt the market environment. Here are three areas of turbulence in the mortgage industry.

A Conversation with Scott Gesell, CEO of Gateway First Bank

Scott Gesell was recently appointed as CEO of Gateway First Bank, Tulsa, Okla. He has been an integral part of Gateway First Bank’s leadership since 2013. During his time at Gateway, he played a leading role in the merger of a 100-year-old community bank with a 20-year-old mortgage company to become Gateway First Bank.

Steven Octaviano: Today’s Innovation Opportunity–And Why Lenders Must Embrace It

The technologies behind these changes have been with us for some time, but it took a crisis of mammoth proportions to accelerate adoption. Yet there are other areas of the mortgage business still sorely in need of innovation. And if lenders hope to remain competitive and thrive when the smoke from the pandemic clears, they need to be embracing these innovations today.

Steven Octaviano: Today’s Innovation Opportunity–And Why Lenders Must Embrace It

The technologies behind these changes have been with us for some time, but it took a crisis of mammoth proportions to accelerate adoption. Yet there are other areas of the mortgage business still sorely in need of innovation. And if lenders hope to remain competitive and thrive when the smoke from the pandemic clears, they need to be embracing these innovations today.

Steven Octaviano: Today’s Innovation Opportunity–And Why Lenders Must Embrace It

The technologies behind these changes have been with us for some time, but it took a crisis of mammoth proportions to accelerate adoption. Yet there are other areas of the mortgage business still sorely in need of innovation. And if lenders hope to remain competitive and thrive when the smoke from the pandemic clears, they need to be embracing these innovations today.

Steven Octaviano: Today’s Innovation Opportunity–And Why Lenders Must Embrace It

The technologies behind these changes have been with us for some time, but it took a crisis of mammoth proportions to accelerate adoption. Yet there are other areas of the mortgage business still sorely in need of innovation. And if lenders hope to remain competitive and thrive when the smoke from the pandemic clears, they need to be embracing these innovations today.

Faith Schwartz: New Era Borne of Pandemic to Upend Mortgage Costs

As longtime industry participants, we at Housing Finance Strategies contend that the pandemic has created a revolutionary opportunity that we must seize and leverage so that the mortgage business can emerge with higher quality prospective products funded through a drastically reduced cost structure.