Technology

Fidelity National Financial is pretty much always in the news in the title industry and here are the latest two announcements that came across our news desk: The company has added a new member to its board of directors, and is implementing a new software to streamline its investment analytic process.

ISGN Corp. announced the addition of a former Xerox executive as its chief product officer who will oversee ISGN’s technology business unit, which includes all aspects of the mortgage life cycle from loan origination to servicing and default management, as well as construction lending, settlement services and vendor management.

Indecomm Global Services, a business process outsourcing and learning solutions company, has acquired the assets of Mortgage U Inc., a recognized leader in mortgage training. The acquisition will allow Indecomm to expand its learning and mortgage training offerings, as well as its total compliance support and consulting.

Linear Title & Closing, a national title agency that specializes in processing a wide variety of loans for lenders, recently released an updated version of its software tool called Change of Circumstance. This software is helping lenders accelerate an approval during its processing of a loan application.

RamQuest Inc., a provider of business solutions for the land title industry, announced the implementation of RamQuest One at TitleCore in Nebraska. After a recent acquisition that substantially increased the size of its operation, TitleCore put together a team to review its title and settlement platform. Read on for more about the decision.

SKLD Information Services, a division of SKLD Title Service Inc., has long maintained an extensive image library of publicly recorded real estate documents in-house and online.  In mid-2012 the company embarked to extend its online database and have documents back to original land patents immediately available to their customers. Read on for the company’s update on the project as well as some of its other special services.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created, essentially, to make sure all of these financial service providers kept the consumer in mind. That was the easy part — figuring out how to actually do that has been the challenge of regulators and industry professionals the last three years. At the American Land Title Association Federal Conference, RamQuest and Guardian Consumer Services unveiled a new product that they think achieves many of the aims of the CFPB and the industry to provide a new env...

Windward Consulting made two announcements linked to its continued growth this week, including a new office space and a new hire. Read on for more details on both.

Real Estate Data Shield’s compliance and data security Awareness e-Courseware wins this year’s Horizon Interactive Bronze Award. The Horizon Interactive Awards is an international competition for excellence in interactive media production.

Carmen Chu, San Francisco Assessor-Recorder, announced that San Francisco County has begun to electronically record real estate and land use records, partnering with Corporation Service Co (CSC).