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Fundingshield announces Jerry Halbrook joins its Senior Advisory Board

August 7, 2018 | by | Comments Off on Fundingshield announces Jerry Halbrook joins its Senior Advisory Board

PRESS RELEASE: FundingShield, LLC – Newport Beach, CA – August 1, 2018 FundingShield, LLC (“FS”) is pleased to announce Jerry Halbrook has joined its Senior Advisory Board. Jerry brings with him 34+ years of leadership experience in mortgages, banking, title and technology running large scale businesses as a senior executive around the country. Mr. Halbrook’s leadership experience includes his role as CFO of Prudential Home Mortgage, Chief Information Officer of Bank of America consumer real estate, Managing Director of CitiMortgage in the Capital Markets area, Co-founder and COO of Nexstar Financial, President of Black Knight Inc. Origination Technology and Business
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Categories: Press and Press Releases.
Tags: Bank of America, Black Knight, Blackknight, citimortgage, Closing, Fintech, Fraud, funding, Fundingshield, lender, MBNA, Mortgage, Price, Prudential, regtech, Risk, tech, Title, wire, and Wire Fraud.

Fundingshield reports an estimated $3 Billion in wire and closing fraud attempts in the first 4 months of 2018

June 5, 2018 | by | Comments Off on 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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Categories: News Letters and Press.
Tags: Bank, CMBA, Cyber, Fannie Mae, Fintech, FNMA, Fraud, Freddie Mac, Fundingshield, Hackers, IBM, MBA, Mortgage, Risk, Secure, wire, and Wire Fraud.

FundingShield Announces Partnership With Pioneer Underwriters and NFP Corporation to privide enhanced crimes policies covering New York State Attorney “Theft of client funds”

September 25, 2017 | by | Comments Off on FundingShield Announces Partnership With Pioneer Underwriters and NFP Corporation to privide enhanced crimes policies covering New York State Attorney “Theft of client funds”

PRESS RELEASE: Original release can be found here NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FundingShield is proud to announce its partnership with Pioneer Underwriters (U.K.) and NFP Corporation (a global top insurance brokerage) in deploying FundingShield’s technology based underwriting services allowing for enhanced crimes policies for New York state attorneys. FundingShield was able to leverage its vast data from over $500 billion of mortgage closings that identify closing party document deficiencies, control gaps or potential fraud tactics used by closing agents and attorneys to develop the framework to approve attorneys seeking enhanced coverage. The “FundingShield Endorsement” policy specifically covers theft of clients funds
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Categories: Press Releases.
Tags: crimes, Fintech, Fraud, insurance, insuretech, insurtech, law firm, policy, and regtech.