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MISMO Announces 2024 Board of Directors

January 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 16, 2024) – MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced its Board of Directors for 2024.

MISMO Releases 2023 Annual Report at Winter Summit

January 11, 2024

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today released its 2023 Annual Report at its 2024 Winter Summit. The MISMO Annual Report outlines the organization’s progress toward creating essential standards designed to solve key business challenges. View the full report online to learn more about MISMO’s impact, achievements, certifications, growth, and success in 2023.

MISMO Honors Annual Award Recipients at 2024 Winter Summit

January 10, 2024

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, announced the recipients of its MISMO Awards program during a ceremony at its 2024 Winter Summit. The MISMO Awards program recognizes the volunteer contributors for their efforts to advance MISMO standards, increase participation, and support the organization.

MISMO Introduces New Certification Opportunities at 2024 Winter Summit

January 8, 2024

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today introduced new certification opportunities at its 2024 Winter Summit. The new certification offerings include MISMO’s Certified Consultant program, MISMO’s e-Vault System Certification, and MISMO’s SMART Doc® Validation Rules Certifications. These three new certifications bring MISMO’s total industry certification opportunities to eight.

MISMO Calls for Participation in New Work Group Focusing on Fee Modernization and Standardization

January 8, 2024

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced a call for industry professionals to join a new development work group (DWG) that will focus on fee modernization and standardization.

MISMO Publishes eVault Standards and SMART Doc® Validation Rule

November 28, 2023

(November 28, 2023) – MISMO® today announced publication of the new eVault Standards and SMART Doc® Validation Rules documents, which were created to help provide clarity and increase eVault interoperability for all parties in the transaction.

MISMO Publishes New Engineering Guideline for Extending a Standard MISMO XML Schema

November 21, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 21, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced the publication of the new MISMO Engineering Guideline (MEG) for Extending a Standard MISMO XML Schema (MEG 0025).

MISMO Seeks Public Comment on Updated Engineering Guidelines

November 14, 2023

(November 8, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it is seeking public comment on the updated MISMO Engineering Guideline (MEG) 7 . The 30-day public comment period runs through December 8, 2023.

MISMO Releases Four New Closing Dataset Specifications

October 30, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 24, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that the industry standard dataset mapping for several pre-closing and closing datasets , including Fee Sheet, ALTA CPL, ALTA Title Commitment, and Endorsements, have achieved “Candidate Recommendation” status

MISMO Issues Call for Participation in Title and Closing Docs to Data DWG

October 30, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 19, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced a call for industry professionals to join the Title and Closing Docs to Data Development Workgroup (DWG).

MISMO Publishes Version 3.5 Property and Valuation Services Implementation Guide

October 17, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 17, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it has published the Version 3.5 Property and Valuation Services (PaVS) Implementation Guide (iGuide).

MISMO Seeks Public Comment on New Engineering Guideline for Extending a Standard MISMO XML Schema

October 12, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 12, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it is seeking public comment on a new MISMO Engineering Guideline (MEG) for Extending a Standard MISMO XML Schema (MEG 0025). The 30-day public comment period runs through November 9, 2023.

MISMO Releases Standardized Dataset for Efficient Exchange of VA Verification of Benefits Information

October 11, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 5, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that the industry standard dataset mapping for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Verification of VA Benefits (Form 26-8937) has reached “Candidate Recommendation” status, which means it has been thoroughly reviewed by a wide range of organizations and industry participants and is available for use across the industry.

MISMO Seeks Public Comment on eVault Standards and SMART Doc® Validation Rules

October 11, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 10, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it is seeking public comment on the new eVault Standards and SMART Doc® Validation Rules documents created to help provide clarity to eVault interoperability for all parties in a real estate transaction. The 30-day public comment period runs through November 7, 2023.

MISMO Publishes Updated Version 3 XML Reference Model General Information Guide

September 14, 2023

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, announced the publication of the updated Version 3 XML Reference Model General Information Guide.

MISMO Issues Call for Participants to Join New Workgroup Focused on Data Mapping for VA Documents

September 7, 2023

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, is calling for industry professionals to join a new development workgroup focused on creating document dataset specifications to align with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Loan Guaranty Program forms.

MISMO Seeks Public Comment on ESG Reference Material

September 6, 2023

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it is seeking public comment on the new Defining the E and S Reference Guide and the related Data Implementation Considerations Guide.

MISMO Launches Enhanced Closing Instruction Templates and XML Mapping Specification

September 1, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 29, 2023) – MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, published a new set of enhanced work products designed to create a standardized exchange for closing instructions information. The Master and Transactional Closing Instruction templates and XML mapping specification have reached “Candidate Recommendation” status.

MISMO Releases Updated Reference Model Version 3.5 YAML Files

August 31, 2023

MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that an updated set of Reference Model Version 3.5 YAML Files has reached “Candidate Recommendation” status, which means that it has been thoroughly reviewed by a wide range of organizations and industry participants and is available for use across the industry.

MISMO Releases the Consumer Home Equity SMART Doc® Standardized Mapping and Updated Implementation Guide

August 31, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 24, 2023) — MISMO®, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced that it is publishing Version 2.1 of the SMART Doc® 1.02 Standard Mapping and Implementation Guide as final.