Mortgage Industry Trends

Trick or Treat: Don’t Be Fooled by these AI and Machine Learning Urban Legends

A lot has been said about machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) regarding the sweet rewards they will bring to the mortgage industry but understanding the potential can be tricky to navigate. Before we get into dispelling the tricks or treats of some popular urban legends, here are a few quick definitions of AI and machine learning for context. AI…

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Mortgage Data and Doc Processing

Four Common Sources of Doc Processing Errors and How to Overcome Them

Today’s data and doc processing solutions have evolved beyond simplistic OCR solutions to include new machine learning and searching technologies. These new, state of the art technologies, significantly expand the number of documents that can be classified and read, as well as greatly increase the number of data elements that can be extracted using automation.  Machine learning, sophisticated data extraction…

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Mortgage Loan Acquisition

Reduce Risk in Loan Acquisition with the Loan Facts

Few would argue closed loan acquisition is complex. Managing risk against faster turn-times, while trying to maintain relationships with sellers surely keeps many of correspondent investors awake at night.  Go too fast, increase your risk. Go too slow, stress margins and ultimately lose sellers. How can correspondent investors minimize portfolio risk while going for speed? By bringing intelligent, automated data…

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Mortgage Industry Trends

Is Skynet Coming to Mortgage Banking?

“We’re creating software robots to mimic what humans do [in mortgage lending]”, said Mark Davison, a partner at ISG, a technology research and advisory firm specializing in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Mortgage lending is just now moving into the digital age and it appears it may leap right into robotic processing and maybe artificial intelligence.  Are you ready for this?…

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