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News: Three new team members join Down Payment Resource to support lenders, HFAs and community programs
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Down Payment Resource (DPR), the housing industry's leading affordability intelligence platform, today announced three additions to its team: Melissa Roy as a partner solutions engineer, April Espinosa as a down payment assistance programs specialist and Jeff Smith as a housing finance agency (HFA) relationship manager.
News: iEmergent Analysis: Neighborhood income data understates mortgage access gaps in 2026
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- New analysis from iEmergent, a forecasting and advisory services firm for the financial services, mortgage and real estate industries, finds that mortgage access gaps for low-income households are substantially wider than neighborhood-level data suggests. The analysis draws on the last five years of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data.
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News: FocusOne CUSO expands its technology offering to help credit union partners with LenderLogix LiteSpeed
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- LenderLogix, a provider of mortgage point-of-sale and automation software, today announced that FocusOne, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), has implemented its LiteSpeed point-of-sale platform as part of its continued investment in technology designed to help credit union partners deliver a modern, streamlined mortgage experience to their members.
News: Wholesale lender, June Point Lending, brings technology-driven DSCR lending to the California brokers
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- June Point Lending Inc. (June Point Lending), a tech-forward wholesale non-QM lender, announced today it is offering debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans in California, its 19th state for DSCR lending and one of the country's largest broker markets.
News: Mortgage technology leader Bryan Traeger named general manager at Floify
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Floify, the mortgage industry's leading point-of-sale (POS) solution, has selected Bryan Traeger as its new general manager. Traeger will lead Floify's next phase of growth with a focus on expanding the company's use of AI and push the boundaries of the borrower and lender experience. Traeger officially assumes the GM role on October 12 and will be at MBA Annual in Chicago, October 12-14, booth 600.
News: New Memoir by Yuri Gascon, ‘Friday Guy’ Offers a Candid Telling on Surviving Childhood Trauma and Reclaiming a Life
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Author Yuri Gascon presents "Friday Guy: The Highs and Lows of the Non-ordinary Life of an Ordinary Man" (ISBN: 978-1834541075) released by Tellwell Publishing, a deeply personal memoir drawn from his own experiences with childhood trauma, family dysfunction, shame, abuse, and the long process of finding a way forward.
News: SecuGen Unity 20 FIDO2 Fingerprint Security Key Certified by FIDO Alliance
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- SecuGen Corporation, a leading provider of fingerprint recognition technology, today announced that the FIDO Alliance has certified SecuGen's Unity™ 20 FIDO2 fingerprint security key. The key is FIDO® Certified for FIDO2 at Authenticator Security Assurance Level 1. It creates and stores passkeys for passwordless, phishing-resistant sign-in to compatible websites and applications.
News: Mezzo and Dark Matter Technologies bring one-to-many verification orchestration to mortgage lenders
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter), an innovative leader in home lending technology, today announced an integration with Mezzo, creator of the mortgage industry's first one-to-many operating architecture for third-party services. Available through Dark Matter's Exchange℠ Partner Marketplace, the integration gives lenders using the Empower® Loan Origination Solution a single gateway and workflow across multiple verification providers.
News: NoValleyRange Warns of Another Rural Area Targeted for Industrial Solar and Lithium Battery Facilities, National Park, Mesa Verde
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- NoValleyRange, a neighborhood group located near Mesa Verde (a UNESCO World Heritage site and National Park), are fighting a Texas developer proposing a $240 million dollar solar and lithium battery development. The proposed project consists of 900 acres of solar panels and 8 acres of lithium battery storage at the base of Colorado's only UNESCO world heritage site.
News: Resident’s Love of Golf Inspires New Virtual Golf Center at Jenner’s Pond in Pennsylvania
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Jenner's Pond, a Simpson senior living community, announced the opening of a new virtual golf center created through a resident-led effort and support from the Simpson Foundation. What began as one resident's idea soon became a community project, the Jenner's Pond Virtual Golf Center.
News: Chicago’s Hartwell Place Invites Neighbors to Fourth Annual Memory Walk
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Residents, team members and neighbors of Hartwell Place, the boutique memory care community of Chicago Methodist Senior Services (CMSS) in Andersonville, will walk together at its fourth annual Neighborhood Memory Walk on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 1:30 p.m. The walk will take place around the block surrounding Hartwell Place, 5520 N. Paulina St., in Chicago's Andersonville community.
News: Friday Harbor honored with 2026 AI Pioneer Award
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Friday Harbor, an AI pre-underwriting platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, has been named a winner of PROGRESS in Lending's 2026 AI Pioneer Award. Friday Harbor pioneered AI pre-underwriting as a new category of mortgage technology and has since brought the approach into production at meaningful scale.
News: Pittsburgh-based marketing agency, PIC, celebrates 25 years of walking with clients
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- PIC, a Pittsburgh-based digital marketing agency and HubSpot Platinum Partner, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Founded in 2001 by Jeff Schroeffel as Pittsburgh Internet Consulting, PIC began as an SEO and paid search provider and has grown into a full-service marketing partner while maintaining the principle that has guided the agency from the beginning: client relationships should be built for the long haul.
News: The Old Vine Registry launches the OVR Seal: connect a wine directly to the documented old vineyard behind it
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- The Old Vine Registry (OVR), the world's largest and most authoritative public database of old vineyards, today launched the OVR Seal. The program lets registered producers and the trade put a vineyard's documented old-vine status in front of consumers directly, via wine labels, digital marketing materials, and more.
News: Capital Auto Group Announces Acquisition of Larry Cloninger Dealerships in North and South Carolina
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Capital Automotive Group today announced the acquisition of six Larry Cloninger dealerships and an independent collision center in North and South Carolina, marking a significant expansion for the family-owned automotive group and, more importantly, the continuation of a legacy built on relationships, community, and more than four decades of friendship between the Cloninger and Michael families.
News: Revived daytime title, Soap Opera Magazine, celebrates 35 years since 1991 debut, as 2026’s top-ranked soap opera news site
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Soap Opera Magazine, named the No. 1 soap opera news website of 2026 by entertainment publication High on Films, is marking 35 years since the magazine first reached newsstands in 1991. The revived digital title now publishes daily recaps, spoilers, breaking news and analysis for all five American daytime dramas.
News: HitPaw Edimakor V5.3.0 Introduces Smarter Watermark Removal, Video Translation, AI Avatar and LUT Filters
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- HitPaw Edimakor V5.3.0 introduces a major update focused on four key areas of video creation: watermark removal, video translation, AI Avatar, and LUT filters. The new features improve the all-in-one workflow, helping creators clean up footage, localize content, produce longer digital human videos, and achieve professional color looks with less effort.
News: Realset AI and Flatkey Raise $10-million in Series A Funding to Build Real World Training Data for Frontier Models
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Realset AI, a real-world data lab that produces training data for LLMs, frontier models and embodied agents, today announced that Realset AI and Flatkey have raised 10 million dollars in Series A funding. The funding will expand Realset's capture network of real workplaces and studio environments, grow its pool of expert demonstrators and domain experts, and support open benchmarks that measure whether AI policies work outside the lab.





































