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First American Financial announced that Chief Marketing Officer Chelsea Sumrow was named by HousingWire as a 2026 Marketing Leaders winner, the second consecutive year she has earned the honor. HousingWire’s selection committee selected the 2026 Marketing Leaders award winners, recognizing the most dynamic and influential marketing professionals in the housing industry.
Stewart Title announced that Christy Ekstrand will assume the additional role of the Division President of CenCal Operations for Stewart Title of California. In her expanded leadership role, she oversees the company's teams and offices across Porterville, Visalia, Fresno, Turlock, and the surrounding Central California communities.
Fidelity Reports First-quarter 2026 Results; First American Reports First Quarter 2026 Results; Old Republic Reports First-quarter 2026 Earnings; Stewart Reports Q1 2026 Results
Stewart has announced enhancements to Stewart Virtual Underwriter® (VU), including secure login access, enhanced search functionality, and the introduction of an AI-powered Virtual Underwriter Agent, VU Explorer.
For the fourth quarter First American Financial reported that its Title Insurance and Services segment had a pretax margin of 14.9 percent, or 14.0 percent on an adjusted basis. Commercial revenues of $339 million were up 35 percent compared with last year.
Fidelity National Financial reported its title insurance segment generated $1.2 billion in pretax income in 2025. This compared to $1.1 billion in pretax income in 2024.
According to First American, the service is expected to be offered to existing First American title insurance policy holders later this year. First American announced that is now offering customers a free title monitoring and fraud alert service. The monitoring service is currently available to customers who close their transactions in one of 25 eligible states, including California.
SoftPro has released integrated software solutions to aid compliance with the new Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) new anti-money laundering (AML) rule. Buyer and Seller Collection Forms gather required data across software editions, with secure electronic submission via ClosingsLIVE. Manual reporting is available, with automated portal submission planned.
Stewart announced that it has created a new company, FinCEN Reporting Services (FRS), a dedicated solution designed for compliance with the new FinCEN reporting rules. Stewart states that FRS can be relied upon to guide, manage and file every report.
Old Republic Reports Q4 and Full-year 2025 Financial Results; Stewart Reports Q4 and Full-year 2025 Results
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