By: Brian Benson for Tomorrow's Mortgage Executive
Historically, the prime objective of every U.S. mortgage origination operations manager has been to create and maintain a productive operation. Keep the pipeline full, close business, lower the incremental price per loan, remain compliant. The recent “digital explosion” driven both by compliance and consumer demand for a more tangible, technology-driven experience has significantly altered that conversation. It is not enough to be cheaper, quicker, or even necessarily more efficient. To remain competitive and deliver productivity and growth that is sustainable, the modern mortgage operation must provide an elegant, transparent, ever-reliable experience, especially for borrowers, while remaining secure and compliant. To achieve this, lenders must rely on more outside services and service providers than ever before, and engage with them in a way that is, in a word, “smarter”.