Underwriting processes to be enhanced to now support loans for credit invisible borrowers.
Read More »Credit Scores and Down Payments Reach All-Time Highs
Faced with elevated home prices and stricter credit requirements, borrowers in Q3 placed, on average, higher down payments on their mortgage loans than ever before, according to Bloomberg. Citing a report from ATTOM Data Solutions, Bloomberg reports the median down ...
Read More »Equifax and FICO Announce Strategic Partnership
Equifax and FICO will integrate differentiated data and precision decisioning to help financial institutions optimize interactions with customers.
Read More »Analyzing Millennial Homeowners’ Credit Profiles
A study analyzing the credit profiles of millennnial homeowners and renters revealed some key differences that kept the latter from taking the plunge into buying real estate.
Read More »Another Look at GSE Credit Score Models
What are the four steps proposed by the FHFA to validate and approve the credit score models used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Read More »Examining FHFA’s Capital Standards Proposal
A brief analyzing FHFA's recent proposal on enterprise capital looked to answer two key questions on risk and capital requirement across the business cycle.
Read More »FICO, Experian, and Finicity Launch New Credit Score
The new system aims to improve credit access, giving consumers more control in the credit scoring process.
Read More »Credit Scores and Loan Prepayment Speed
Are prepayment speeds related to credit scores? A recent webinar on residential mortgage servicing rights gave some new insights about the prepayment of loan products and FICO scores by comparing conventional and government mortgages.
Read More »LenderClose Expands Sales Team with New Executive
As Sales Executive at LenderClose, Benjamin Dinkins will build relationships with credit unions and community banks for the lending technology firm.
Read More »The Evolution of Housing Wealth
What are the shifts in the distribution of housing wealth and how has it evolved after the Great Recession? A research by the New York Fed found some compelling answers.
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