Mortgage Industry Trends

During the last two quarters I have felt a little like General Sherman at the start of the American Civil War.

On the heels of the Bank of America announcement that they are going to acquire Countrywide, there is a flurry of announcements and transactions.

    At a time and place in the mortgage industry when the bottom line is getting awfully thin, lenders and brokers should remember that there are sources of revenue in the some very

Let’s get right down to basics. We all know that if we ever hope to succeed at anything, it takes a lot of effort.

As a 1980’s educated computer scientist with a MBA, my initial educational background and skills were made obsolete long before I realized it.  Riding the wave of technology and globalizatio

As I finish the analysis of Mastering Survival Integration – Achieving Success Beyond Traditional Operating Models using Outsourcing and Process Integration -- my Februa

SWF’s apparently have become the next savior for the unprecedented risks taken by financial and mortgage institutions during the last three to five years.  With over $4 trillion of investmen

When market conditions begin to make it tough on lenders, we see the results in the mortgage technology field pretty quickly.

Credit difficulties and failures are often experienced by the markets and investors not just as a one-time event, but as a series of actions that arrive in loosely coupled groupings.  The cred

File this under 'Hidden Casualties of the subprime collapse'. Portellus was a technolgoy vendor that entered the market as a provider of business rules and decisioning technology.