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Free Webinar on upcoming challenges and how to Adapt

Tuesday, December 17, 2013
2:00 p.m. EST – 3:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. PST — 12:00 p.m. PST)
No cost to register.

Join us for a webinar presentation which frames the changes about to affect your agency, and provides ways you can adapt right now.

Moderators:

Rick Diamond, Vice President of I.T., Agency Operations, WFG National Title Insurance Company

Charles Cain, SVP, Agency, Midwest, WFG National Title Insurance Company

What your agency did to be successful in the past will likely not be enough to succeed in 2014 and beyond.  Regulatory changes, market shifts and new client demands all mean that title agents will have to reconsider the way they do business…and soon.   On December 17, join us to consider some of the new challenges emerging for title agents as well as two real solutions available to WFG agents. 
  • How does your agency ensure data security as will be required by the CFPB and your lending clients?  To what extent does your e-mail need to be encrypted?  Is your firewall adequate?  How secure is your network, and is that secure enough?
  • Will your methods for ensuring data integrity—especially where inaccurate data could negatively affect closing tolerance–meet the standards required by your lenders?
  • How does an agent undertake the very real operational changes that will be required by lenders, underwriters and enforcement agencies while maintaining his or her margins?
  • Are your settlement, closing and even recording procedures in line with new consumer protection requirements?
 
This is a free webinar open to title agents, settlement services professionals, real estate attorneys and industry executives who take their operations practices and compliance strategies seriously.   Expect future seminars on topics of interest to you from WFG National Title Insurance Company, a partner and trusted resource for title agents nationwide.

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The Title Advisor series is a webinar series provided as a complimentary resource for agents and partners of WFG National Title Insurance Company.  Each month, WFG will provide top experts to discuss subjects of relevance for title agents and settlement services providers:

  • Growth Strategies:  Revenue streams, product strategy, marketing and sales
  • Market Trends:  Big picture overview of the industry and market strategy
  • Compliance Trends:  Legislative, regulatory and litigation updates and tools for compliance
  • Production and Ops Practices:  Technology, streamlining efficiencies, general operations and strategies for improving production and delivery of product
  • Title 101:  Basic training for entry and mid-level title professionals.
  • Town Hall:  Tell us what’s on your mind. How can we be of service, and what issues can we help you face?
 
To learn more about WFG National Title, or to learn about future installments of The Title Advisor Series, go to www.WFGNationalTitle.com.
Title Insurance Issues

Echoworx Corporation Announces Partnership with Cloudstar to Provide OneWorld Email Encryption Solutions to Cloudstar Customers – Yahoo Finance

From Yahoo finance

TORONTO, ONTARIO–Marketwired – Nov 7, 2013 – Echoworx Corporation www.echoworx.com, the leading provider of email encryption and managed encryption solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Cloudstar http://mycloudstar.com, a national provider of best practice, compliance and advanced technology systems for the Land Title Insurance industry, to provide email encryption solutions to Cloudstar customers leveraging the OneWorld Email Encryption platform. Following the integration of Echoworx OneWorld, Cloudstar will begin offering encryption solutions to their customers before the end of Q4 Calendar Year 2013.

via Echoworx Corporation Announces Partnership with Cloudstar to Provide OneWorld Email Encryption Solutions to Cloudstar Customers – Yahoo Finance.

Continuing Education, Title Insurance Issues

Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act

Estimated Length: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cost: $75.00 (USD)
Credits: 4
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This course is a comprehensive discussion of the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act and the new regulations promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A detail history of RESPA and other legislation that has led us to where we are today are included. The course covers servicing, escrow accounting, Notice of Error, Requeist for Informatin, Forced Placed Insurance, Loss Mitigation, Affiliated Business Arrangements, and Solicitation. It includes detailed sections on the new Loan Estimate and the new Closing Disclosure.

Expert

Vince DanziVince Danzi

Vincent G. Danzi graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in History in 1995 and earned his law degree in 2000 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  Prior to law school, he was a Licensure Investigator for the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.  Since law school, he has worked in the title insurance and settlement services industry.  He serves as General Counsel for Equity Settlement Services, Inc., a national title and settlement services provider, which offers a wide range of services across a thirty-five state footprint.  Outside this role, his practice includes business legal representation, consulting, and serving in an of-counsel and outside expert capacity on RESPA and other compliance and title insurance issues.  In accord with his enduring devotion to computer programming, he is also a database application and user interface developer.  He lectures, writes, and otherwise contributes to the publications and seminars of such organizations as The New York State Land Title Association, the Title Appraisal Vendor Management Association, October Research, The New York State and Suffolk County Bar Associations, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of October Research’s The Legal Description, the nation’s leading legislative and legal analysis newsletter for the title insurance and settlement services industry.  Mr. Danzi was a featured speaker at the 2011 National Settlement Services & Compliance Summit in Cleveland, Ohio, at which he spoke on best practices for the title insurance industry

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