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Jersey Shore State Bank, a subsidiary of Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc., was recognized by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) for its 2013 performance. The bank's mortgage services division received a high producer ranking of PHFA loans in Pennsylvania, top lender in PHFA HOMEstead loans, and the top producer of new PHFA construction loans.

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), one of the nation’s largest wholesale lenders, announced the launch of its new ‘Big & Easy Plus’ program designed for jumbo loans that don’t fit the Qualified Mortgage (QM) criteria.

In North Carolina, the mortgage insurance (MI) unit of Genworth announced the launch of a seamless integration between itself and Optimal Blue, the mortgage industry’s largest product and pricing engine (PPE).

CRMnow, a customer relationship management (CRM) firm catering to lenders, announced a new integration between its own Mortgage iQ CRM and the LendingQB loan origination system (LOS) designed to save time and enhance data integrity for mortgage brokers and bankers.

Clear Capital’s quality control platform, ClearQC, has been selected as the technology of choice to validate appraisal data of submissions in Freddie Mac’s Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP), the California-based data and tech provider announced.

Wetzel Trott, Inc., a firm specializing in quality control reviews for residential lenders, has joined the Stewart family of companies.

PCV Murcor, a California-based provider of real estate valuations for the industry’s largest institutions, announced its recent membership in a group aiming to create more standardized, efficient third-party oversight audits.

A Florida bank has seen its residential loan volume grow more than 200 percent since automating its processes through OpenClose’s multi-channel lending automation platform, the origination technology provider announced.

Kroll Factual Data, Inc., a leading provider of credit, risk mitigation, and third-party verification services, announced the addition of several Kroll product integrations into Mortgage Builder Software, Inc.

International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, and MortgageFlex Systems, a mortgage loan software provider, announced the development of a joint ‘lights out’ interface between IDS’ flagship preparation system—idsDoc—and MortgageFlex’s LoanQuest software.