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Lender Uses AUS To Ensure Consistency
Central Pacific Bank, a leading residential mortgage lender in Hawaii and the primary subsidiary of Central Pacific Financial Corp., has implemented LoanScorecard’s Custom AUS as its automated...
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Lender Looks To Drive A Better Consumer Experience
Ohio-based mortgage banker, Concord Mortgage Group, a division of NOIC, Inc., in partnership with Blend, a Silicon Valley-based technology firm, has released the Ready App, offering borrowers an...
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Customer Experience Is For More Than Just Borrowers
How can mortgage lenders be more successful? For years, the focus was on lowering costs and squeezing out as much efficiency from the staff as possible. While those are still key factors to a lender’s...
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The Fight Of The Century
In 1975 the “fight of the century” took place in Manila. Known as the “Thrilla in Manila”, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali took to the boxing ring to determine once and for all who was the heavyweight...
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Integration Streamlines The Title Process
Premium Title, a national provider of title and escrow services, has launched an integration with LendingQB’s end-to-end, browser-based loan origination system (LOS). The integration can help provide...
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STRATMOR Reflects On The M&A Market
STRATMOR Group took an in-depth look at characteristics that maximize seller value in mortgage banking merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. As Senior Partner and M&A specialist Jeff Babcock...
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‘Speak Human’ In A Content-Crowded World
“Blah…Blah…Blah…” This is what most consumers hear when exposed to marketing messages no matter the medium through which it’s delivered. Today’s consumer demands more than catchy slogans and slick ad...
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The AI Age Is Here
Artificial intelligence has gained prominence recently due, in part, to big data, or the increase in speed, size, and variety of data that businesses are now collecting. Artificial intelligence, or...
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Combat Proliferating Pessimism
It is sad but true: Americans are becoming overwhelmingly pessimistic. And, there is no shortage of studies to prove it. Reported data shows that that a paltry six percent of Americans think the world...
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Homes Are Gaining Equity Again
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Year-End 2016 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that as of the end of 2016 there were 5.4 million (5,408,323) U.S. properties seriously underwater...
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Get Your Message Across
There’s a lot of noise in the mortgage industry. So, in order to be effective you have to know how to get your message across. In the article “9 Ways to be a Positive Communicator” by Jon Gordon, he...
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Partnership Provides Mobile Loyalty And Payments To Underbanked
Sionic Mobile and Customer Engagement Technologies (CET) have launched a partnership to provide mobile loyalty and instant universal rewards to the underbanked. PaySwag, amobile app by CET that works...
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The AI Era Is Here – Pt. 2
In the latest issue for Fortune, Erin Griffith examines the investment trends in AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology and poses the question: is AI an overhyped fad or a revolution? She writes,...
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The Real Customer Experience
How can mortgage lenders be more successful? For years, the focus was on lowering costs and squeezing out as much efficiency from the staff as possible. While those are still key factors to a lender’s...
View ArticleAddressing Risk
Addressing risks identified as a threat to the achievement of the company’s goals is typically the responsibility of risk management. Options for minimizing or eliminating these risks include...
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We Need To Get It Right This Time
I remember the late 1990s when everyone wanted to do an eClosing pilot. Everyone thought that eMortgages would blow up and go mainstream faster than you can imagine. Well, here we are over 15 years...
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The Next Real Estate Boom
A new white paper titled “Landlord Land” done by ATTOM Data Solutions and Clear Capital analyzes the “who” behind the recent real estate boom that has seen home prices reach near all-time highs...
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Collateral Valuation: 10 Ways To Prepare For The Busy Season
Appraisal turn times are longer and fees are higher in many areas of the country, and we’ve just barely begun the Spring buying season. Many lenders are scrambling to make sure they’re ready for an...
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Reaching Borrowers
There is always talk about how much the mortgage industry has changed over the last twenty years. Most of it revolves around the flood of new rules and regulations, technology shifts, borrower...
View ArticleWhat Is The CFPB Up To?
STRATMOR Group, a consulting firm that helps mortgage banks build profitable mortgage lending operations, responded today to news that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would move forward with...
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