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Nobody was covering this profession as a beat. Five sections, one rule: every number names its source and its date.

Key points

TC Bulletin covers transaction coordination across five beats: compliance, fraud, software, practice and the profession itself.

No dedicated news aggregator for the profession existed before now.

Every figure published carries a named source and a date.

Vendor statistics are always published alongside independent corroboration.

There is trade press for brokers, for mortgage, for title and for proptech investors. There is a great deal of coaching content for transaction coordinators. There was, until today, no publication treating coordination itself as a beat.

That gap is odd given what the job now involves. A coordinator sits at the point where a licensing rule, a contract form, a wire instruction and four software systems all meet, and is usually the first person to notice when any of them changes. The information they need is scattered across state regulators, association legal departments, title trade press and vendor changelogs, and almost none of it is written with them in mind.

What we cover

Compliance: licensing scope and unlicensed-assistant rules, state by state.

Fraud and closing security: wire fraud, business email compromise and the data behind both.

Software Watch: releases, integrations, pricing and ownership across transaction management platforms.

Practice and forms: contract forms, agreement changes and association rulemaking.

The Desk: credentials, pay, associations and how coordinators actually run a book of files.

How we handle numbers

Most fraud statistics in this industry are published by companies selling fraud prevention, and most software comparisons are published by companies selling software. Both can be useful. Neither is neutral.

So: every figure on this site carries the name of the source that produced it and the date it was produced. Vendor data runs with independent corroboration beside it, which for fraud reporting means the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. Where we could not verify something, the story says so rather than smoothing over it.

If a story cannot name where the number came from, it is not ready to run.
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Corrections and contributions

Corrections are published with the date they were made, on the story itself. If something here is wrong, or if a state has published guidance we have missed, the desk wants to hear about it.

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