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Collaboration to include WFG's Title Sponsorship of NAMMBA's 'Connect 2021' in September and providing education and career development for minorities in the mortgage industry. Portland, Ore., March 09, 2021 - WFG Lender Services, a Williston Financial Group company providing services and technology solutions that enable lenders to take time and…

Longtime industry veteran will chair the non-profit trade organization's Collaboration Committee and serve on its Advocacy and Education Committees Portland, Ore., March 04, 2020 – WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG), a Portland-based, full-service provider of title insurance and real estate settlement services for commercial and residential transactions nationwide, has…

WFG Enterprise Solutions received important validation for another of its groundbreaking innovations this week when HousingWire announced that MyHome Exchange, a new platform designed to create a secure, online space for collaboration between parties in a mortgage closing, had earned its prestigious 2021 HW Tech100 Award. In its announcement, HousingWire…

WFG Enterprise Solutions was honored for groundbreaking innovation this week when Progress-in-Lending Association revealed the winners of its 2021 Innovations Awards. Representatives of a dozen leading mortgage industry firms participated with digital messages to thank the Progress-in-Lending Executive Team as they announced each of the 11th annual winners in an…

Valutrust Solutions recently enhanced its comprehensive suite of property valuation offerings with ValuTrue™, and Valutrust President Sean Pyle joins NMP-TV's Andrew Bergman for a short video interview to discuss these and other newly added valuation offerings. The addition of the ValuTrue product line provides Valutrust clients for whom traditional appraisal…

The record high number of new mortgages and refis last year exposed systemic issues within our industry that continue to result in borrower dissatisfaction, according to WFG Lender Services SVP Dan Bailey. "The first challenge is capacity," Bailey said on a recent episode of Rich Grant's "Content Beacon" podcast. "We…

HousingWire Daily recently launched "Honest Conversations," an eight-week mini-series on Diversity and Inclusion. Monique Winston, Vice President of National Business Development at WFG Lender Services and co-Chair of its new Diversity and Inclusion Council, was the podcast's February 11th guest. In the half-hour interview with host Alcynna Lloyd, available here,…

All offerings are available through the proprietary Valutrust platform for single-source ordering, lender-controlled rule-based product selection, and progress monitoring. Portland, Ore., February 9, 2021 – Valutrust Solutions, LLC, a Williston Financial Group company, providing national appraisal management services and proprietary technology solutions to banks and residential lenders, has added property…

Portland, Ore., February 5, 2021 – WFG National Title Insurance Company, a Williston Financial Group (WFG) company and the fastest-growing title insurer in the U.S., has appointed Neil F. Narut to the newly created position of VP, Regional Underwriting Counsel for its Central Region. Narut will provide underwriting support to…

Just a month into the New Year, RISMedia has announced that WFG Chief Executive Officer Steve Ozonian is a "2021 Real Estate Newsmaker." That's about as safe a designation as one can make in our industry, especially coming off a year of uncertainty and challenge. Clearly, it's because of the…