With market challenges and lower volumes we are seeing an increase in defalcations in the market. Protect your funds on every loan with up to $5mm of coverage using our FinTech tools at FundingShield.
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Fundingshield reports ~$75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure
Fundingshield reports an estimated $75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure. This would equate to exposure of ~$20 Billion in 2018. This report leverages Fundingshield’s industry-leading proprietary software, analytics and transaction database of wire account information and transaction closing history. Furthermore, this projection is specific to lender wire and closing fraud attempts, and does not capture the much higher volume of wire fraud attempts against consumers in housing transactions. Wire and closing fraud victims overwhelmingly underreport losses because of reputational risk concerns. As Fundingshield has shared previously, Cyber criminals use crawlers, also known as software
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News Letters and Press.
BEC, Business Email Compromise, Compliance, Crime, Cyber, FBI, Fintech, Fraud, lending, losses, Mortgage, Risk, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.
BEC, Business Email Compromise, Compliance, Crime, Cyber, FBI, Fintech, Fraud, lending, losses, Mortgage, Risk, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.
Fundingshield reports an estimated $3 Billion in wire and closing fraud attempts in the first 4 months of 2018
Fundingshield reports an estimated $3 Billion in wire and closing fraud attempts in the first 4 months of 2018, triple the $1 billion reported to the FBI for all real estate related wire fraud losses for the first 9 months of 2017. This report leverages Fundingshield’s industry-leading proprietary software, analytics and transaction database of wire account information and transaction closing history. Furthermore, this projection is specific to lender wire and closing fraud attempts, and does not capture the much higher volume of wire fraud attempts against consumers in housing transactions. Wire and closing fraud victims overwhelmingly underreport losses because of
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Bank, CMBA, Cyber, Fannie Mae, Fintech, FNMA, Fraud, Freddie Mac, Fundingshield, Hackers, IBM, MBA, Mortgage, Risk, Secure, wire, and Wire Fraud.
Bank, CMBA, Cyber, Fannie Mae, Fintech, FNMA, Fraud, Freddie Mac, Fundingshield, Hackers, IBM, MBA, Mortgage, Risk, Secure, wire, and Wire Fraud.
FS Newsletter 123: Mortgage “Purchase Market” Drives Closing Agent Stress
The current “purchase mortgage” market is causing mortgage banks across the country to re-examine their in-house closing party review processes as they have less control of closing agent selection. Additionally, this adds stress operationally and increases risk through closing agent review, compliance, risk management and wire fraud prevention if not actively utilized and deployed at the loan transaction level. Mortgage Participants: All Mortgage lenders doing purchase (non-refinance) transactions & any lender that cannot force the use of its preferred closing agents across all closings. Investors or Warehouse lenders concerned about closing agent controls. Problem: The purchase market is causing increased
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Fundingshield Newsalert: Mortgage wire fraud percetage increase with interest rates
Mortgage closing fraud continues to increase to and is reaching all-time highs while mortgage volumes are on a decline due to rising rates. From The Trenches Cybercriminals are using sophisticated phishing and email system penetration strategies to find a transactions in the mortgage market where they can execute an attempt to defraud one or more parties to the loan transaction. As the market volume has decreased, the percentage of transactions being attacked has spiked significantly. Fundingshield is actively assisting law firms, working with regulators and law enforcement to help non-clients in their attempts to recover stolen funds. Recent Fundingshield
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News Letters and Press.
BEC, Business Email Compromise, costs, Cyber, Fraud, LOS, Mortgage, Real Estate, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.
BEC, Business Email Compromise, costs, Cyber, Fraud, LOS, Mortgage, Real Estate, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.
FS Newsletter 122: LOS shutdowns creating increased risk & headaches for lenders
Newsletter 122: January 5, 2018 As lenders move away from legacy Loan Origination Systems (“LOS”) or migrate from an unsupported, discontinued or retired LOS we highlight various loan closing procedure gaps that can be enhanced leveraging Fundingshield’s services. During the transition phase Fundingshield provides a proven, flexible plug-n-play solution during this highly exposed period for operational & fraud risk. Mortgage Lenders Any Mortgage lender that is currently transitioning from a current LOS to another or going through entity wide system and reporting changes. These lenders have to deal with aged, retired, patched systems lacking data security standards and support
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Fundingshield Alert – Rise In 2017 Holiday Season Wire Fraud Attempts
Newport Beach, CA – December 28, 2017: As the holidays continue and lenders push forward to close loans ahead of the year end FundingShield has been called upon to assist in numerous situations of wire diversion and closing fraud hitting lenders across the country. As highlighted in our recent newsletters and alerts our sources and systems have noticed an increase in wire swapping and diversion attempts during the run up to and through the holiday season in 2017. The many system breaches at Uber, Yahoo, Equifax and the most recent from Alteryx (see Fundingshield commentary in the press National Mortgage
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Fundingshield Market Alert – How UBER, Equifax & Yahoo data breaches have increased fraud risk in the US mortgage market
Recent news shared that UBER has had a massive data breach of roughly 60 million accounts. While there has been the leaking of PII such as name, address, and driver’s license numbers, it has yet to be reported that the leakage extended to trip location histories, credit card numbers, bank account numbers and other Personally identifiable information (PII) . December 6, 2017 Newport Beach, CA: Fundingshield is a financial technology company that protects the Mortgage, Real Estate, Title and Legal firms from wire fraud, social engineering attempts, cyber based and settlement agent wire fraud. Ike Suri, Chairman & CEO
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News Letters and Press.
Fundingshield Newletter 116: February 2, 2017 – OCC Third Party Oversight leveraging our SPC system that incorporates key principals of the Mckinsey Consulting study
On January 24, 2017 the OCC shared the OCC Bulletin 2017-7 (examination procedures to supplement OCC Bulletin 2013-29, “Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management Guidance,”) to promote “consistency” in the examination guidelines and goals of the OCC of the covered national banks and federal savings associations. These guidelines are designed to help examiners focus and apply consistent measurement across any framework in place for third party oversight by institutions and the key is to have a “best in class” risk management system and framework for identified and appropriate risks. FundingShield has been deploying vendor & third party service provider (“TPSP”) oversight, management,
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News Letters and Press.
Fundingshield Newletter 114: November 8, 2016 – FundingShield launches next generation Vendor the Third-Party Service Provider Compliance Portal for State, OCC and CFPB Compliance:
FundingShield has answered its clients’ call for a simple yet powerful tool for assuring Third Party Service Provider and Third Party Originator Compliance with Federal and State requirements with the launch of its SPC service. Clients Any mortgage lender or servicer who work with third party service providers and who is subject to OCC, CFPB or State compliance rules. Problem Lenders and Servicers need a simple hands off solution to managing federal and state compliance requirements for all types of third party service providers and originators without paying a high price and experiencing a steep learning curve. Solution Fundingshield’s SPC
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