Technology

ServiceLink, an end-to-end origination, servicing and default solutions provider for the top mortgage lenders and servicers, announced from the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) 2013 User Conference the availability of its MERS Reconciliation and Resolution program.

Real Estate Data Shield announced the launch of a web-based Compliance Management Platform for the title and settlement industry. The platform is set up so title and settlement companies can immediately access and find the tools they need to meet the data security compliance mandates of regulators, lenders and the title industry's best practice initiatives. 

Day one of the National Settlement Services Summit contained all sorts of practical, every day information for running a title business in 2013, in addition to some of the high-level talking points about industry change involving regulators and lenders. The standout nugget, for me, was this simple idea: “The market has never put anybody out of business.”

SoftPro, a provider of real estate closing and title insurance software nationwide, is a finalist in support and customer service at the 2013 American Business Awards on June 17 in Chicago. Read on for more about the recognition and the company.

ClosingCorp, a provider of residential real estate closing cost data and technologies for mortgage lenders, real estate professionals and consumers, announced a partnership with TSS Software Corp. at the National Settlement Services Summit. Using ClosingCorp’s SmartGFE Calculator, customers of TSS Software’s TitleExpress receive title and settlement orders from lenders through the online calculator. 

RedVision, a provider of title reports and real property research solutions, has created a new Loan Modification Services Bundle that the company says directly coincides with the Obama administration’s announced focus on increasing loan modification alternatives for at-risk consumers.

Corporate Service Company announced that Diane Matousek, clerk of the Circuit Court, Volusia County, Fla., has begun to electronically record real estate and land use records with their company.

Federal Title & Escrow released a mobile app called Close It! that produces a detailed picture of cash to close and monthly mortgage payments for homebuyers and cash in pocket for home sellers on an editable, shareable closing disclosure statement.

Simplifile was tapped to e-record the first documents in the state of Delaware. The inaugural document recording, an electronic loan modification agreement, took place at the Kent County recorder of deeds office in Dover, Del.

ONTITLE National Settlement Services and ClosingCorp announced that they have signed an agreement regarding the joint development of next‐generation automated settlement technology. ONTITLE and ClosingCorp plan to jointly develop a self-service automated settlement generator by each, using their core technologies and workflow capabilities.