Black Knight, Inc.
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 Black Knight Financial Services headquarters | |
| Company type | Financial services |
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| NYSE: BKFS | |
| Founded | Florida, USA October 27th, 2014[1] |
| Headquarters | 601 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Key people | William P. Foley II, Chairman Tom Sanzone, CEO Anthony Orefice, EVP and COO Kirk T Larsen, EVP and CFO Shelley Leonard, EVP and CPO |
| Website | bkfs.com |
Black Knight Financial Services, formerly known as Lender Processing Services, is an American corporation that provides integrated technology, services, data and analytics solutions to the mortgage and real estate industries. On January 3, 2014, Fidelity National Financial acquired Lender Processing Services (LPS) and renamed it to Black Knight Financial Services.
History
The company, then known as LPS, was incorporated in 2007.[2] It once served as the mortgage business segment of Fidelity National Information Services, spinning off in 2008 to become a fully independent, publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LPS[3][4] Jeffery Carbiener, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Fidelity National Information Services at the time of the divide, became the first President and Chief Executive Officer of LPS.
On March 14, 2011, the Company's subsidiary, LPS Mortgage Processing Solutions, Inc., acquired PCLender.com, Inc. (PCLender.com).[5] In May 2012, Constellation Software Inc. acquired the assets of the Local Government Solutions division of the Company.[6] In July 2012, the Company acquired LendingSpace, a provider of mortgage loan origination software solutions.[7]
On October 5, 2011, LPS named Hugh Harris President and CEO. Prior to coming to LPS, Harris served as President of the Financial Services Technology division at Fidelity National Financial and Fidelity National Information Services. Before joining Fidelity National Financial, Harris was President and CEO of HomeSide Lending, Inc., where he was responsible for one of the world's largest full-service mortgage companies.[8]
On January 3, 2014 LPS was renamed Black Knight Financial Services after being acquired by Fidelity National Financial, which was ranked #314 among Fortune 500 Companies in 2015.[9] LPS product offerings support origination, servicing, portfolio retention and default servicing. LPS' servicing solutions include MSP, a loan-servicing platform, which is used to service approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages by dollar volume.[10] The company also provides proprietary data and analytics for the mortgage, real estate and capital markets industries. LPS was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, employing approximately 8,000 professionals, although this number diminished significantly with the vast amount of layoffs occurring within the company after becoming Black Knight.[11]
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- ^ "Fidelity National Information Services' Spin off to be Named Lender Processing Services,". Reuters. February 13, 2008.
- ^ "Fidelity National Information Services' Spin off to be Named Lender Processing Services,..." Reuters. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
- ^ "LPS acquires PCLender to expand reach to small mortgage lenders". housingwire.com.
- ^ "Constellation Software Inc. Acquires Certain Assets of Lender Processing Services LLC". Yahoo Finance. 4 May 2012.
- ^ http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112649955/lps_announces_acquisition_of_lendingspace
- ^ http://www.lpsvcs.com/LPSCorporateInformation/NewsRoom/Pages/20111005.aspx
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