In a prior post, we discussed how a frictionless transaction experience increases the likelihood a seller will return to do business with an investor. Now, we turn our focus to the role investors can have helping sellers improve the quality of their loans, which will further strengthen the relationship and foster repeat business between the two parties. Most professionals welcome…
As I work with lenders to solve for the alphabet soup of compliance, TRID and HMDA specifically, I consistently receive questions around the latest rumblings popping up in the news. Recently I’ve been asked about tolerance violations related to the loan estimate (LE) and closing disclosure, as well as increased investor scrutiny on seller HMDA data. I addressed those questions…
Why Regtech is a Necessity for Reducing the Cost of Managing Mortgage Loan Quality This overview of our “Regtech Explained” whitepaper is an invitation to read our latest whitepaper on Regtech. The full whitepaper is free and shows how the mortgage industry has struggled with loan quality for decades and explains that the problem is only getting worse. Even as more…
Many of the industry’s correspondent lenders have assembled a series of incomplete technology systems to perform the various complex functions of closed loan acquisition. This approach was born out of necessity since a complete system that meets the end-to-end needs of correspondent loan acquisition has proven elusive. Rather than spending millions of dollars to build a proprietary system, most correspondent…
Automation provides a wealth of benefit to any manual process, inlcuding speed (file reviews in under 5 minutes), accuracy (99% for data validation) and traceability (audit trail of defects), to name a few. But, in the case of HMDA, lenders are often surprised to find that it brings three unique value-adds to their reporting process. Automation can eliminate “check the…
Instead of a digital experience to manage the flow of data and decisions in situations like a negotiated trade transaction, many investors still rely too heavily on spreadsheets and phone calls. Often, this leaves both buyer and seller equally unsatisfied with the process and turn-time. Correspondent investors who bring together the 3 steps in the negotiation process through a digital…
