DIGITAL MORTGAGES:
8 TRENDS YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO IGNORE
Customer demand for improved speed, ease of use and predictability is driving the digitization of the mortgage industry. AI and supervised machine learning technologies are helping to make this happen. Automated smart document capture is an important element of the shift toward digitization because it increases throughput, improves accuracy, decreases time to close and reduces overhead.
1. Mortgage processing margins are declining and competition is intensifying.
Profit-margin outlooks continue to be negative and lenders are saying that competition from other lenders is the top reason for this. Additional factors include consumer demand, staffing issues, and market trends like shrinking refinance origination volume, rising interest rates and tight inventory.
Source: “Increased competition dampens mortgage lender profit-margin outlook”
2. Customers want more control over the mortgage process.
Self-serve loan origination solutions, like Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans, are in high demand. Not surprisingly, Quicken Loans was named the largest mortgage lender in the nation* for the first time in Q4 of 2017 and again in Q1 of 2018.
Other technologies that are helping create a more efficient mortgage process include electronic notarization, e-notes, blockchains and data-based electronic verifications of borrower information.
Source: National Mortgage News
3. Homeowners are combining online applications and in-person interactions to apply for mortgages.
About 37% of homeowners leveraged the combination of an online application and in-person interaction to apply for their last mortgage.
Source: Ellie Mae
4. Customers want a more efficient and transparent mortgage experience.
In response, lenders are providing customers with more self-service options and advancing their use of data and analytics by widely adopting automation and supervised machine learning capabilities.
“You’re going to see a lot more technology focused on that consumer interaction; designing things from a consumer perspective in both speed and ease of use and predictability.”
-Joe Mellman, Senior Vice President and Mortgage Business Leader, TransUnion
Source: National Mortgage News
5. Loan officers are changing from passive data collectors to active consultants.
“The loan officer role is going to shift from gathering a lot of data and entering things and pushing buttons to really being a consultant to the consumer, and acting upon the information rather than asking about it.”
-Joe Langner, CEO of Loan Origination and System Developer, Blue Sage Solutions
Source: National Mortgage News
6. In this environment, mortgage companies can’t afford to make investments in the wrong technology.
With declining volume, it’s never been more important for lenders to choose wisely when it comes to making technology investments.
7. Computers are helping people make smarter decisions.
“Computers are now able to learn like human beings do… [and] based on certain attributes, the machines are actually starting to learn.”
-Joe Langner, CEO of Loan Origination and System Developer, Blue Sage Solutions
“What AI really means is taking advantage of all this information that’s out there, and having a computer actually be able to learn it. We’re getting to the point where the computers can actually be able to learn things and be able to help us do things that we ourselves may not be able to do as human beings,” he continued.
The mortgage world will witness smarter decisions being made and automated in place of a heavier reliance on human beings to complete the same tasks, with advancements being made “in all sorts of automated processes,” according to Randy Abbey, chief technology officer at TRK Connection.
8. Smart document capture is a key element to the digital mortgage process.
Automated smart document capture is an important element of the shift toward digital mortgages. Using supervised machine learning technology, smart document capture solutions can improve document classification accuracy, increase document throughput, decrease time to close, reduce overhead and improve productivity.
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