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  Recently, Williston Financial Group Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick F. Stone and business-focused economist, Forbes contributor, and Duke University Ph.D. Bill Conerly got together for a Q&A webinar, Economic Outlook and Title Insurance. During the webinar, they provided a snapshot of the current U.S. economic outlook, with a focus…

In this June 18 article, co-written for Progress in Lending by Sean Pyle and Patrick Brown, the authors explain how the business of property appraisal had to make radical adjustments in order to survive the economic upheaval of COVID-19. Importantly, those changes made in the heat of such an uncompromising…

A highlight of January's Future of Real Estate Summit (FORES) was Qualia CEO Nate Baker's interview with Patrick F. Stone, in which he asked the Williston Financial Group Chairman and Founder for his thoughts on the future of the title and mortgage lending industries. Pat's responses were laid out in…

For its 10th Annual Innovations Awards for 2020, PROGRESS In Lending has added a "Thought Leaders Award" category. On June 16, it was announced that Dan Bailey, Senior Operations Executive and SVP for WFG Lender Services and WFG Enterprise Solutions, is one of the winners. The award spotlights women and…

NEXT's Jeri Yoshida asks WFG Lender Services and Enterprise Solutions SVP Dan Bailey for three ways COVID-19 will change mortgage lending forever. Dan's number one response is that the sales and marketing of mortgage lending services are "never going to be the same." Given that quarantining has made borrowers more…

As social distancing remains a part of how real estate transactions are conducted, new concepts in remote notarization are being offered for consideration at a near-weekly rate. By Steve Ozonian June 8, 2020 In his June 8, 2020 editorial for Inman News, WFG President and CEO Steve Ozonian explains that,…

  Mortgages: Black Leaders' Thoughts on Closing the Racial Divide," published by Mortgage Professional America on June 4, Monique Winston, WFG Lender Services' Vice President of National Business Development and head of the Cleveland Realtist Association, and NAMMBA Founder and CEO Tony Thompson discuss the importance of providing opportunities for…

In a thorough, well-presented summary of an important summit of industry leaders, writer Eric C. Peck collects the comments of seven participants in a National Mortgage Professional panel discussion entitled "Where is the Industry Heading Post-Pandemic?" WFG Executive Chairman and Founder Patrick F. Stone is among this magnificent seven from…