Ask most lenders their number one headache, and the answer is usually keeping up with compliance changes. Compliance requirements take many forms – ensuring fair lending, accurate reporting on loan activity and maintaining documents that are clear and up-to-date with all federal, state and investor guidelines are just a few of the details that must be managed daily.
In mortgage lending, just following the requirements of regulatory agencies and the law is often not enough.
Faced with ambiguous language and constantly shifting revisions and interpretations of key regulations, many investors adopt a more conservative approach to compliance. This requires lenders looking to sell their loans on the secondary market to not only comply with the law but to also understand and follow the additional standards investors require when purchasing mortgages.
In a previous post, we pointed to the significant increase in consumer lending that we’ve seen over the past 12 months. While mortgage lenders typically don’t pay much attention to these lower balance, non-collateralized personal loans, they represent a promising growth area for financial institutions.
Motor City revved up a different type of engine last week as lenders and vendors roared into Detroit to debate, explore, and test out the latest innovations driving the mortgage industry at the 2018 Mortgage Bankers Association’s Technology Solutions Conference and Expo. Across the many sessions and meetings, three major themes dominated the show: customer experience, digital mortgage, and data security
Any lender seeking a new technology partner has to wade through a river of nearly useless buzzwords. The cloud. AI. eMortgage. Blockchain. End-to-End.
They all have strong business cases, but too many companies just throw the words out there hoping to get their voice heard amongst companies seeking the newest offerings. Without substance, though, these bits of jargon mean nothing.
What does a healthy loan portfolio look like? Much like financial advisors counsel investors to diversify their personal investments, banks and credit unions must follow the same advice. Relying too heavily on one loan product puts the institution at risk and leaves valuable growth opportunities for someone else to grab.
http://blog.docutech.com/enhancing-the-mortgage-process-with-edocumentsSpring is around the corner, and for many homeowners, it’s time to shake off the winter doldrums and freshen up the home. Often, this means tackling a major remodeling project – possibly a new bathroom, updated kitchen or that dream landscaping project. As the economy remains strong, the appetite for remodeling is growing quickly. The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) projects that homeowner spending on improvements and repairs will approach $340 billion in 2018, an increase of 7.5 percent from estimated 2017 spending.
Part Two of a Series on HELOC Lending
As we explored in the previous blog of the series, tappable equity among homeowners is currently at an all-time high. In fact, according to TransUnion, nearly 65 percent of current homeowners are eligible for a home equity line of credit (HELOC), presenting a lucrative business opportunity for lenders looking to expand their service offerings.
For many years, one of the primary benefits touted by advocates of electronic mortgage lending was the concept of moving to a paperless loan process. However, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules that went into effect in 2015, eliminating paper – and its respective costs – is still a challenge for lenders making the move to digital.
