An Interview with Hon. Kenneth M. Donohue, former HUD Inspector General The following interview was conducted by Andrew Liput, CEO and President of Secure Insight, a New Jersey based vendor management firm specializing...

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!  This month like every month we feature some of the latest news about mortgage and closing fraud affecting our industry.  These are real cases from around the country, only the names have...

When the CFPB issued its Bulletin 2012-3 addressing third party service provider risk management, the industry largely responded with a blank stare.  Because most lenders had never developed risk management protocols and...

Spring is in the air, and for sports enthusiasts like me that means one thing: Spring training and the start of yet another baseball season. As I check out the Florida box scores, I can’t help but find some parallels between...

Immediately after Donald Trump was elected President in November 2016, the election the mortgage industry was buzzing with articles predicting that a Trump Presidency would mean the death knell for the Consumer Financial...

For years real estate closing work has been the “bread and butter” of many small law practices.  Representing buyers and sellers in sales and mortgage closing transactions can be a lucrative practice area, and because...

For years notaries have found a profitable source of recurring business handing the witnessing and collection of closing documents at residential mortgage closing transactions.  Whether affiliated with escrow and settlement...

Now that 2017 has ended, many lenders are breathing a strong sigh of relief.  In the past few years regulatory and compliance directives from Washington have fueled increased loan costs, spurred the development of new...

For years credit unions have sent mortgage proceeds and loan documents to non-vetted and unsupervised men and women acting as “settlement agents” who appeared at the closing table, interacted with members and were largely...

Using data mining and intelligence for predictive behavior analysis can stop potential losses from mortgage fraud.  Today the technology, the analytics and the processes exist to deter bad acts and to uncover bad actors...