The purchase would make it easier for borrowers and lenders to agree mortgages, while helping homeowners lower their monthly payments and lessening the likelihood of default, ICE said. Sprecher added that Black Knight fitted into his company’s long-term strategy of turning old-line financial services into lucrative high-tech operations. “ICE’s simple mission has been to make analogue and opaque financial transactions more digital and transparent,” he said.

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