December 1, 2022, Santa Ana, Calif.
. Very First American Data & Analytics, a leading national provider of property-centric info, danger management and advanced analytics and a department of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), announced today that Calvin Powell, the division’s chief details officer, has actually been named one of the winners of HousingWire’s 2022 HW Tech Trendsetters. The HW Tech Trendsetters acknowledge the leading item and technology leaders who have been important in bringing innovative tech options to market for real estate market clients.
“Over the past ten years, Calvin has actually contributed in leading the development of our trademarked data extraction innovations that help develop and enhance the industry-leading information assets that power the items and solutions our clients rely on,” stated Robert Karraa, president of First American Data & Analytics. “Calvin has assisted us set the standard for the products and options that are driving digital transformation throughout the home loan financing industry.”
A specialist in information extraction and innovation, Powell was recognized for his role in supervising the development of the division’s industry-leading property and title search platforms, fraud detection services and next-generation AVMs. Under Powell’s leadership, First American Data & Analytics has actually secured 21 data and technology patents, consisting of several for its advanced optical character acknowledgment technology, which powers the business’s CovenantGuard ™and FlexSearch ® platforms. CovenantGuard is a first-of-its-kind workflow item that is helping California counties determine and edit the prejudiced covenants in county-recorded real estate documents, as needed by a new state law. FlexSearch is an ingenious residential or commercial property data online search engine that quickly searches the division’s home and ownership dataset that consists of more than 7.5 billion document images and recovers the associated file images.
“The HW Tech Trendsetters award provides us the opportunity to highlight the names and faces
behind the tech companies that are transforming the real estate economy,” said Sarah Wheeler, editor-in-chief at HousingWire. “These innovators are important to the exceptional efficiency of their home loan and property customers and have, yet once again, surpassed all expectations by tackling some of real estate’s most pushing concerns.”
About Very First American Data & Analytics
First American Data & Analytics, a division of Very first American Financial Corporation, is a nationwide company of property-centric details, danger management and advanced analytics. First American preserves and curates the market’s largest home and ownership dataset that consists of more than 7.5 billion document images. Its major platforms and products consist of: DataTree ®, FraudGuard ®, RegsData ®, First American TaxSource ™ and ACI ®. Discover more about how First American Data & Analytics powers the real estate, home mortgage and title and settlement services markets with sophisticated decisioning solutions at www.FirstAmDNA.com.
About Very first American
Very First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is a leading provider of title, settlement and risk options for real estate transactions. With its mix of financial strength and stability constructed over 130 years, innovative proprietary technologies, and unrivaled data assets, the company is leading the digital change of its market. Very first American also provides information products to the title market and other third parties; evaluation product or services; mortgage subservicing; home service warranty items; banking, trust and wealth management services; and other related services and products. With overall profits of $9.2 billion in 2021, the business uses its product or services directly and through its agents throughout the United States and abroad. In 2022, First American was called among the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Great Location to Work ® and Fortune publication for the seventh successive year. More information about the business can be found at www.firstam.com.