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Bank Technology News August 2008 Glen Fest	Taking a Close Look at Net Leads Lead IQ, from Sparkroom, is targeting mortgage companies with a hosted analytics toolset and consultant services that aim to give lenders a sharper look on lead channels, including those from the Internet.
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Bank Technology News January 2007 John Adams	Lead Generation: Family First Finds Tailor-Made Sales Prospects A Chicago mortgage lender is utilizing a new "e-Bay-style" online exchange for mortgage leads that lets institutions set the time and place for bidding on leads.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2007 Emil Lee	Shedding Some Light on Subprime Lenders An interview with the CEO of a website that provides marketing leads to mortgage companies offers a peek into the subprime world and where that market is headed. Investors, take note.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Phil Britt	Show Me the Money Mortgage lenders are investing in technologies to increase process efficiencies and enable better targeting of loan prospects, according to industry analysts.
Bank Systems & Technology November 26, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Lending Tech Vendor Space to See Realignment As lenders find themselves in the throes of the credit crunch, the ill effects are trickling down to the lending technology vendors, ushering in a realignment in the space.
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The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 John Rosevear	Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history.
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Bank Systems & Technology April 1, 2005 Cynthia Ramsaran	Echoes of the Mortgage Boom With more institutions vying for the business of fewer customers, it's more important than ever for mortgage players seeking to grow revenues to improve service by offering new and differentiated mortgage products, such as Web-based offerings.
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Bank Technology News April 2006 John Adams	Online Mortgage Delivery: Fannie And Freddie Await An E-boom GSE execs say innovation at all stages of the lending process and pressure from the waning refi boom spell imminent growth in the Web-enabled mortgage secondary market.
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National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig	Encore Performance? Mortgage bankers are hoping that 2006 will be a repeat performance of 2005 -- a phenomenal year for commercial and multifamily mortgage originations. But whether those expectations materialize depends largely on interest rates.
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Justin Hibbard	The Fed Eyes Subprime Loans Battles over lending to low-income, often minority, home buyers used to be about access to credit. Now they're about access to affordable credit. If new lending data hints at unfair pricing, lenders may have to take a good, hard look at their methods.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Kingsley Greenland	Why Liquidity Should Help You Sleep Better There is no crystal ball that can predict the next lending squeeze, or if one will even occur. What is certain however, is that greater liquidity in the secondary market for commercial real estate loans is an important safety valve for the entire industry.
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