Mortgage Software Solutions Blog

With growing concerns over security issues and increasing industry standard upgrades, the benefits of synchronizing data across mortgage and core system platforms couldn't be clearer.

With complex sales that involve a lot of money, it can take weeks to complete the sales cycle. Mortgage loan officers often wait an average of four to five weeks to close on a home. However, new rules have come into effect, as of October 3, 2015, that are making that process even longer.

These days, more and more mortgage companies are beginning to implement a mobile workforce. However, with this newfound mobility comes a number of potential security risks. When mortgage loan officers need to access or enter sensitive information from their mobile devices, they run the risk of exposing that information to security threats.

With Quicken Loans' recent unveiling of real-time loan applications, competition between mortgage companies has reached internet speed. How can mortgage companies, credit unions and banks compete with this online vendor? By using cloud platforms and integrated software to cut down on the chaos of information sprawl and data silos and speed up their loan services.Cloud Platforms

In the fast-paced, competitive environment credit unions and mortgage companies face in the post recession age, technology is essential for great business systems. The right technology systems cut costs and increase quality at the same time through reducing data errors, communication costs and the time necessary to interact with your customers. With so many great options to manage accounting, customer relationships, and more, an interface to your core banking system is an integral part of any technology mix.

These days, savvy businesses everywhere are touting the benefit of real-time analytics, and so should mortgage companies. Real-time analytics help mortgage companies increase efficiency, provide better customer experiences, and gain valuable information about business processes, marketing, customer relations, and more.

Cloud computing can empower the mortgage industry by streamlining processes, reducing errors, and improving efficiency. However, some institutions are still a bit hesitant, when it comes to integrating Cloud computing into their strategies.

Many mortgage companies, especially smaller firms, assume that their business is safe from hackers and other potential cyber attacks, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. Cyber attacks present just as big of a risk to small mortgage businesses as they do to large, and in many cases, the associated risk is actually larger.

In today’s increasingly mobile world, more and more businesses are allowing their employees to use their mobile devices for work, especially when those employees are on the road or working from home. As a result, mobile security is more important than ever for protecting businesses from the threat of an information breach. In fact, despite mounting evidence of growing security threats, many companies still disregard mobile security as a priority. And in the mortgage industry, where your company handles such quantities of private information, ignoring security on mobile devices is a gamble you cannot afford to make.

In today’s highly digital world, much of our business communications take place over email. The mortgage industry, especially, relies on email to communicate with clients, send and receive important documents, and to transmit customer information. However, with email comes a lot of security vulnerabilities that put your mortgage company at risk of contracting malware or having your sensitive communications intercepted by hackers. Email security is vitally important, and it is necessary to establish a strong email security policy that provides proper guidance for your loan officers on how to handle email communications.