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Get More Leads This Year
It’s that time of year again: planning your marketing spend and projecting sales for the upcoming quarters. The challenge, however, is that there’s too much conflicting information out there. Do you...
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Cyber Attacks: Protecting Your Business
You can Download this article as a PDF HERE The frequency of online attacks against U.S. business continues to increase, along with the cost of defending against those attacks and mitigating any...
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Borrowers And The CFPB Requirements
Download This Article As A PDF HERE The Consumer Federal Protection Agency has as its primary purpose protecting the consumer from high risk and unfair practices in consumer lending. In other words...
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Change The Way You Think
Download This Article As A PDF HERE Organizations are facing a multitude of challenges forcing them into making more decisions, and faster, every day. The ability to recognize complex situations and...
View ArticleFeed The Factory
According to conventional wisdom, creating a mortgage loan is like a manufacturing process, with loans progressing along an assembly line that starts with origination and ends with delivery. But the...
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CRM Alone Is No Longer Enough
You Can Download This Article as A PDF HERE Roller coaster interest rates … expanding rules and regulations … heightened competition for borrowers … declining origination volumes … rising costs to meet...
View ArticleChase Moves To Automate QM Compliance
Good automation is improving the mortgage process each and every day. For example, Chase just recently announced that it will accept the LoanScoreCard Abridged Funding Request Form starting April 1,...
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Your Next Competitive Advantage
You Can Download This Article As A PDF HERE My last three articles focused on how design thinking enables you to look at innovation from a new perspective. Now let’s add a new dimension-creativity. In...
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Don’t Sit Back
You Can Download This Article As A PDF HERE You know what they say: quitters never win. Sure, the compliance burden is increasing. Sure refinances are decreasing. Sure the cost to originate is...
View ArticleWhat’s In A Name?
With competition heating up, companies need every advantage. Believe it or not, that starts with coming up with the best name for your new company or a newer name for some existing companies. For...
View ArticleLenders Need To Be Better Marketers
How do you conquer the purchase market? You have to reach more borrowers, plain and simple. And if you can’t do that well on your own, that’s where technology can help. For example, mortgage Returns...
View ArticleTechnology Can Promote Compliance
Technology can certainly promote compliance. For example, WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG National Title)agents are now using the company’s Compliance Management System (CMS), an electronic...
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Executive Spotlight: Becky Pratt of Altisource Origination Services
The mortgage industry has always operated under compliance regulations, but in the past couple of years the level of regulatory oversight has become more onerous. For a better understanding of how the...
View ArticleLights! Camera! Lawsky?
If you’ve been paying attention to the financial news lately, you have probably seen the name Benjamin Lawsky turning up with somewhat rabid frequency. Lawsky is New York State’s first Superintendent...
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Simplifying The Closing Process
You Can Download This Entire Article As A PDF HERE In April, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report titled Mortgage Closings Today that summarizes the key challenges...
View ArticleAn Interesting New Product
I like to report on new products so you know what’s out there to help you improve your process. So, today I want to inform you that Mortgage Returns has introduced a post-close survey product as a part...
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How Would You Grade Yourself?
Despite advances in data, analytics, and technology, only 26% of marketers are capable of determining their impact on their business, according to the latest joint VisionEdge Marketing (VEM) and ITSMA...
View Article5 Reasons To Steer Clear of “Custom” Solutions
We talk with lenders and AMCs every day who have invested significant time and expense in building customized software tools. Unfortunately, these projects commonly fail so it’s important to understand...
View ArticleA BIG Confirmed LOS Acquisition
Rumors about technology acquisitions are floating around a lot these days. I hear most of them. My policy has always been not to report on a rumored acquisition until the deal has been closed. Rumors...
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Can Traditional Mortgage Technology Provider Address “E”?
You Can Download This Entire Article As A PDF HERE The residential real estate finance industry has struggled with ‘e’ for years. Efforts to move from paper introduced microfilm, microfiche, imaging,...
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