Lender Processing Services (LPS: 26.54 -0.23%) said it completed the first electronically signed and submitted loan modification through the Home Affordable Modification Program. LPS provides a suite of mortgage technology and real estate services, which includes the development of ClosingStream 2.0. The servicer, which was not identified by LPS, electronically created modification documents to a borrower through the Web-based tool. The borrower then reviewed, signed and returned the documents to the servicer in four hours. According to LPS, the manual process can take as long as two weeks, an estimation far below the experience at some servicing shops and the Treasury’s [...]