The Importance of Having a Mobile-Friendly Platform Usage of mobile-friendly banking and financial tech continues to increase At the time of a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 68% of adults in the US owned a smartphone. This figure was a steep rise from the 35% of adults that had a smartphone in 2011, just four years earlier. Tablet …
Floify and FormFree Partner To Deliver Secure Automated Asset Verification to Mortgage Industry
Floify and FormFree Partner To Deliver Secure Automated Asset Verification to Mortgage Industry Partnership protects and improves the security of financial data shared between lenders and borrowers BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 14, 2016 —Floify and FormFree today announced a partnership that integrates FormFree’s AccountChek™ asset verification solution with Floify’s mortgage automation technology platform. The partnership enables Floify’s lenders to request, analyze …
What If Fannie and Freddie Do Get Privatized Again?
What If Fannie and Freddie Do Get Privatized Again? Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Trump’s Treasury nominee, caused quite a stir recently when he said in an interview that privatizing the government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be “on the top-10 list of things” that the administration would seek to get done. By the end of trading that day, the …
How Secure Is Your Loan Document Management Strategy?
How Secure Is Your Loan Document Management Strategy?When it comes to your borrowers’ personal documents, you owe it to them to ensure that their privacy is intact and their information is secure. An effective loan document management strategy that utilizes encryption technologies widely available today can accomplish these goals and provide other production benefits for you and your team as …
The next generation of borrowers will demand a digital mortgage experience
The next generation of borrowers will demand a digital mortgage experienceThere is a shift underway in the mortgage industry towards the adoption of technologies that give borrowers a digital mortgage experience and that create efficiencies and cost savings in loan production for lenders. This shift was a central theme at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual conference last month as speakers and panelists …
What Do Top Loan Officers Look for in a Mortgage Company?
What Do Top Loan Officers Look for in a Mortgage Company?The greatest differentiator between mortgage companies is how well they recruit and retain superior talent. Research from the STRATMOR Group has shown that the top 20% of loan officers account for 57% of total loan volume, with the top 40% of originators bringing in 80% of total loan volume. A …
Fannie and Freddie Adding Automated Validation to Flagship AUS Systems
Fannie and Freddie Adding Automated Validation to Flagship AUS Systems GSE’s integrating income and asset validation to help reduce origination costs The mortgage industry was set abuzz on Monday when the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both announced sweeping changes to their automated underwriting systems, including an automated appraisal valuation tool. Somewhat of an undercard to the appraisal news …
1003 Application – Why Every Loan Originator Needs Mortgage Application Software
1003 Application – Why Every Loan Originator Needs Mortgage Application SoftwareOnline lead generation is now a critical component of a loan officer’s pipeline. When a potential prospect finds your local business listing, website, Zillow/Trulia profile, social media profile, etc., and decide to apply for a loan with you, you’re going to want to have an online 1003 application that makes …
Automate the Gathering and Verification of Borrower Loan Docs
Automate the Gathering and Verification of Borrower Loan Docs Floify enhances the mortgage process for loan officers and homebuyers with automated verification of incomes and assets Floify, a leading mortgage automation technology platform, announced the release of new automated verification features that accelerate the time-consuming and manual mortgage process of collecting and verifying borrower loan documents. Floify’s automated asset verification feature allows borrowers …
Automating the Mortgage Document Collection Process
Automating the Mortgage Document Collection ProcessFast, pain-free mortgage document collection Streamlining the lending process by automating the mortgage document collection process is a technological breakthrough that more and more borrowers are looking for when they choose their lender. Nonbanks like Quicken Loans (Rocket Mortgage) have already begun capitalizing on the efficiencies and loan file accuracy that these automations provide. Even Guaranteed Rate, …