Black Knight (company)

Black Knight

Black Knight headquarters
Type	Financial services
Traded as	NYSE: BKI Russell 1000 Component
Founded	Florida, USA October 27th, 2014[1]
Headquarters	601 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Key people	William P. Foley II, Executive Chairman Anthony Jabbour, CEO Anthony Orefice, EVP and COO Kirk T Larsen, EVP and CFO Shelley Leonard, EVP and CPO
Website	www.blackknightinc.com

Black Knight, Inc., formerly known as Black Knight Financial 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. On October 2, 2017, upon the completion of a distribution by Fidelity National Financial of its equity interest in Black Knight Financial Services, Inc., the company rebranded as simply Black Knight (NYSE: BKI).

History

LPS logo

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. Its servicing solutions include LoanSphere MSP, a mortgage 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, previously employing approximately 8,000 professionals.^[11]

On October 2, 2017, upon the completion of a distribution by Fidelity National Financial of its equity interest in Black Knight Financial Services, Inc., the company rebranded as simply Black Knight^[12] and began trading under the NYSE symbol BKI (NYSE: BKI). In August 2018, Black Knight launched LoanSphere Actionable Intelligence Platform to provide lenders with actionable intelligence.^[13][14]

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