Mortgage Software Solutions Blog

5 Ways a Virtual Desktop System Can Benefit Mortgage Companies

Remote work is a feature of the modern business world that isn’t going away. In fact, research says we are likely to increase our reliance on remote and virtual solutions. For business, the shift has been quickly adopted but financial service providers have been slow to move fully into the cloud.

Topics: mortgage industry virtual desktop

The Benefits of Rapid Onboarding and Offboarding for Mortgage Lenders

The process of onboarding or offboarding in a mortgage lending company is a minefield. In an industry with strict data regulation, financial service providers are under the gun to get their staff in and out of the system as quickly as possible to keep workflow moving and data secure.

Topics: mortgage industry robotic process automation

Five Reasons Mortgage Companies Struggle with Email Signatures

Design

Most mortgage companies rely on individual employees to create their email signature. This results in email signatures that look different depending on the formatting and spacing used. While some employees prefer their name to be in a purple font written in cursive others, prefer a more classic approach. This is a problem as people outside the company who communicate with employees via email have a poor perception of the company. Leaving employees to create a manual email signature may hurt their chances of getting a loan application from a prospective borrower as the borrower may judge that mortgage company based solely on the non-professional, manually created email signature.

Topics: mortgage industry email signature technology

6 Reasons Mortgage Companies Are Moving To The Microsoft Phone System

Security

Topics: mortgage industry phone system

How to Implement Digital Transformation at a Financial Institution

Choosing a new digital direction for your company.

Topics: mortgage industry implementation

5 Ways Mortgage Companies Can Protect Their Office 365 Email

IT administrators can protect their email systems.

Down payment wire fraud affects borrowers and mortgage companies across the country. This scam, aimed specifically at homebuyers, tricks people into sending money to a fraudulent offshore account. CNBC explains that it works because the transfer request comes disguised as the email account of the actual real estate broker working with the homebuyer. The scam relies on the eagerness of the first-time homebuyer and the confusion surrounding closing day, which for most people represents the single largest monetary payment of their lives. When everything about the home buying experience is new, borrowers are unlikely to notice the fake “broker” has requested the down payment money be sent to a new account.

Topics: microsoft office 365 cybersecurity mortgage industry

5 Tips to Boost Onboarding at Banks and Credit Unions

The sooner a new hire is settled, the sooner they can begin their work.

Topics: mortgage industry robotic process automation onboarding rpa

What Are The Real Risks Of Not Encrypting Borrowers' Files?

Without encryption, financial institutions are taking a gamble.

Topics: financial data security encryption cybersecurity security mortgage business mortgage industry data breach

The Newest in Mortgage Compliance Software: The Email Signature

Mortgage companies finally have the capability of email signatures.

For mortgage professionals, a huge concern of daily communications is confidentiality. Nothing is more important than protecting sensitive client data.

Still, some mortgage companies haven’t gotten around to upgrading their software. As software becomes more sophisticated, security and compliance features are becoming standard in the mortgage world.

Topics: mortgage industry Compliance for Mortgage Companies Mortgage Lending Digital Mortgage signatures email signature

New Mortgage RPA Makes Waves in the Mortgage Industry

A new RPA streamlines the process of on-boarding new hires.

On-boarding loan officers is a hassle. There are pitfalls along the way and multiple security-minded platforms to authorize before a new loan officer can begin their work properly.

Topics: MortgageWorkSpace mortgage industry on-boarding