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FundingShield’s Chairman & CEO, Ike Suri, interviewed by MortgageMedia’s Dave Matthews

October 4, 2019 | by | Comments Off on FundingShield’s Chairman & CEO, Ike Suri, interviewed by MortgageMedia’s Dave Matthews

CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW THE FULL INTERVIEW AND WRITE UP FROM MorgtgageMedia Loan Security: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
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Categories: Media and Press.
Tags: BEC, Business Email Compromise, consumer, Cyber, downpayment, funding, home, loan, Media, Mortgage, Mortgagemedia, payment, Webcast, and Wire Fraud.

Fundingshield CEO quoted in National Mortgage News “The best defense is offense”

August 29, 2018 | by | Comments Off on Fundingshield CEO quoted in National Mortgage News “The best defense is offense”

Original Article from National Mortgage News: https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/housing-market-players-beef-up-defenses-to-thwart-new-wire-fraud-threat ————————————— ————————————— ————————————— Editor’s Note: This is part three in a three-part series from the August edition of National Mortgage News magazine about the growing prevalence of business email compromise fraud. Read part one and part two here. It takes a multipronged approach, through systems and education, by mortgage lenders to stop business email compromise attacks. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at wire fraud against Gateway Mortgage Group, the Tulsa, Okla.-based lender spent much of its 2017 information technology budget putting up defenses to thwart these types of scams. It built a
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Categories: Media and Press.
Tags: Brad Finkelstein, Closing, Compliance, CPL, FBI, Fintech, Fraud, funding, Fundingshield, IC3, loss, Mortgage, National Mortgage News, protection, regtech, shield, wire, and Wire Fraud.

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 News Alert 9/14/2017: Equifax Data Breach Impact on Mortgage Funding & Third Party Risk

September 14, 2017 | by | Comments Off on FundingShield News Alert 9/14/2017: Equifax Data Breach Impact on Mortgage Funding & Third Party Risk

As the mortgage industry lenders implement the requirements to meet the New York Cyber Security requirement (DFAS) and the FFIEC CAT, the Equifax breach highlights the existing risk surrounding data integrity, fraud and the need for enhanced controls. Consumer finance and mortgage banks will have to manage the ongoing threat of fraud which the mortgage press and our clients have reacted to by showing an increased demand for third party diligence, oversight and controls. National Mortgage News Reported Monday September 11, 2017 the Seven Aftershocks of the Equifax Breach of which one of the 7 points highlighted was precisely Third-party
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Categories: Press Releases.
Tags: Bank, Compliance, Cyber, Equifax, Fraud, funding, lender, lending, Mortgage, Risk, Security, third party, and wire.

William Klumper, a mortgage risk, technology and information security veteran joins the Fundingshield Advisory Board.

July 17, 2017 | by | Comments Off on William Klumper, a mortgage risk, technology and information security veteran joins the Fundingshield Advisory Board.

Newport Beach, CA (July 17, 2017) – Fundingshield, LLC., is pleased to announce the mortgage risk, information security and technology veteran, William Klumper, has joined its advisory board. William’s career has focused on driving best practices and technological innovation for the mortgage industry in the information security, risk and technology forums. He currently serves as the Chief Information Officer of First Mortgage Company LLC in Nebraska where he also assumed the Chief Security Officer & Chief Privacy Officer roles facilitating governance and controls during the firms rapid growth. He currently has several Mortgage Industry wide leadership roles including MISMO where
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Categories: Press Releases.
Tags: CIO, CISO, Fraud, funding, Fundingshield, Mortgage, Risk, Settlement, and wire.