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» VISIT US ONLINE @ DSNEWS.COM 79 "We're proud to partner with MGIC, which shares our vision to streamline the mortgage insurance process for lenders and consumers," said Joe Langner, CEO of Blue Sage. "Our automated integration with MGIC significantly reduces time and effort involved in ordering insurance, regardless of a lender's channel of business. rough partnerships such as these, Blue Sage continues to modernize mortgage lending in the cloud in ways that other platforms simply cannot match." "We are excited to be working with Blue Sage to bring the newest MGIC offerings to our mutual customers," said Margaret Crowley, VP of Marketing and Customer Experience at MGIC. "As we continue to define new ways of supporting the private mortgage insurance needs of our customers, partners like Blue Sage are creating platforms that support continuous innovation." CONNECTICUT Keeping Up with Regulatory Changes Continuity, a provider of development and deployment of regulatory change management solutions for regulated financial institutions, announced the addition of state regulatory content to its RegAdvisor Pro platform. e company said that this new technology— RegAdvisor Pro: State—would address a shift in the market. "With an increasing number of state legislatures and regulatory bodies becoming far more active in the oversight of financial institutions, we felt it was critical for our clients to have access to current state level content as a part of our overall technology offering," said Mike Nicastro, CEO, Continuity. RegAdvisor Pro: State will be offered as an add-on module for Continuity's RegAdvisor Pro product. Clients will be notified of regulatory changes for the states they subscribe, so they do not miss regulatory issuances. ey will also manage state regulatory changes within the RegAdvisor Console, using the same tools as they have used for managing federal regulatory changes, eliminating the need to track and compile changes from multiple sources. "ere has been an interesting shift in market dynamics during the last year," said David Bagley, Chief Revenue Officer of Continuity. "As such, we at Continuity have responded to this shift by investing in new "is merger will create a much larger and stronger organization with significant synergies," said Kevin Brungardt, CEO, RoundPoint. "RoundPoint will benefit operationally in many ways, including having access to Freedom Mortgage's substantial origination platform. With the combination of servicing portfolios, the merger makes the company the seventh largest U.S. mortgage servicer nationwide." "I am pleased to welcome RoundPoint's highly successful and professional team to the Freedom family," said Stan Middleman, CEO, Freedom Mortgage. "We very much appreciate the hard work by everyone involved in making this merger happen, and look forward to working together." Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as financial advisor to RoundPoint and Sidley Austin LLP served as legal counsel. Classic Strategies Group served as financial advisor to Freedom Mortgage and Zuckerman Gore Brandeis & Crossman LLP served as legal counsel. Automating Mortgage Insurance National Mortgage Insurance Corporation (National MI), a subsidiary of NMI Holdings, Inc., is now integrated with the Blue Sage Digital Lending Platform, a browser-based, end-to-end mortgage platform built in the cloud. e integration enables lenders to obtain immediate and accurate National MI rate quotes and order delegated mortgage insurance without ever leaving Blue Sage. e integration brings National MI's real- time, risk-based mortgage insurance pricing to Blue Sage, an Emeryville, New Jersey- based comprehensive platform that handles all mortgage channels—retail, wholesale, correspondent, and consumer direct. "National MI is very pleased to join forces with Blue Sage," said Mike Dirrane, Chief Sales Officer and Senior Managing Director with National MI. "Lenders can now see National MI's rate and choose the quote that is best for them. Having access to our Rate GPS risk-based pricing through the Blue Sage platform will save lenders time and streamline the origination process." e integration leverages Blue Sage's application programming interfaces (APIs), which enable seamless interoperability between third-party technology providers. Blue Sage also tracks and updates data changes throughout the loan file in real time, so if new data requires mortgage insurance to be reordered or repriced, it happens automatically. "National MI's products and groundbreaking risk-based pricing technology make them a perfect partner for us," said Joe Langner, CEO of Blue Sage. "One of the many distinctive aspects to this direct, system-to-system integration is that Blue Sage automatically alerts users if changes in the loan file require mortgage insurance to be reordered or repriced. is type of rules- based process automation is unique among mortgage platforms because only Blue Sage was built with today's modern technology." Improving Mortgage Insurance Accuracy Blue Sage, developers of the browser- based lending technology designed to provide borrowers with a digital mortgage experience, and Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), a private mortgage insurer, announced the availability of MGIC's mortgage insurance rate quotes and delegated MI service ordering through the Blue Sage Digital Lending Platform. rough this technology integration, loan originators can select MI products and order MGIC rate quotes or delegated MI without leaving the platform, improving the speed and accuracy of ordering MGIC MI. is partnership with MGIC is another step forward in the Wisconsin-based Blue Sage's vision to provide an end-to-end, cloud- based digital mortgage experience capable of handling any business channel, from retail to wholesale, correspondent and even consumer direct. e integration was made possible through Blue Sage's unique application programming interfaces (APIs), which provide seamless interoperability between the platform and third-party systems. 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