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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…

In Brandon Melanese's article for Progress-in-Lending, posted January 28, 2021, the Valutrust Solutions VP for Sales & Business Development outlines why America's Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs) are sure to experience an expanding role as "integrated business partners" of the nation's mortgage lenders. While change is now the constant throughout mortgage…

When WFG Executive Chairman and Founder Patrick F. Stone and JJAM Financial Services Chairman Joseph Murin first appeared together on the Content Beacon podcast '3 Guys and an iPad,' it was to assess how mortgage and title companies might cope with a COVID-19 pandemic in its first months. Six months…

The forecast from the live Quarterly Economic Outlook webinar on January 21 was upbeat. The ongoing series, hosted by WFG National Title Insurance Company and featuring its Executive Chairman and Founder Patrick F. Stone along with economist Dr. Bill Conerly, left its audience with good reason to anticipate positive growth…