MetaSource will once again exhibit at the Risk Management, QA & Fraud Prevention Forum 2017, which is hosted by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) from September 24-26 in Miami.

Stop by booth #7 to see how we eliminate a wide variety of quality control headaches for mortgage lenders and servicers, so that you can concentrate on your core business.

Make sure you join us for the MetaSource Networking Reception at 6:30pm on Monday, 9/25, at InterContinental Miami's Blue Water Cafe. RVSP HERE TODAY!

Are You Ready for the New URLA?

Starting January 2018, the newly redesigned uniform residential loan application (URLA) – also known as Fannie Mae Form 1003 – will have a cleaner look with more white space and a defined separation of borrower and lender information. It has also been updated so that it is compliant with the new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). However, the new Form 1003 has been specifically designed for electronic forms.

This is great if you've already switched over, but it can also cause information capture headaches for mortgage originators. That's where we come in.

Making the Transition Easy

MetaSource Mortgage can ease the information capture pain in two ways:

1. We'll convert all your paper mortgage applications into electronic form
2. We'll use document scanning and capture technology to automatically extract the vital information

This will not only make data capture quicker, but it will also assure more accuracy than manual data entry.

Flagging Deficiencies

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." – Carl Sandburg

We hear about mortgage file quality control (QC) turn times of 60-90 days from other QC outsourcing providers. Why does it take so long? It's usually because they're having trouble keeping up with volume, but it could be any number of reasons.

Long turn times put you in an uncomfortable position of being out of compliance with the agencies. If your vendor post closed review is at 60+ days, you have ZERO flexibility in any internal process and procedures. We've even seen many lenders recently receiving added scrutiny from HUD, as well as investors, due to unacceptable vendor time frames. 

What if your mortgage QC turn time was 35 days? What would you do with the extra time and lack of stress?

The June issue of Servicing Management features the article Best Practices for Mortgage Boarding, Workflow Automation and Document Management written by Ruth Lee, our Sr. Director of Mortgage Services. Below is an excerpt of the article. Let us know if we can help you with any of the topics discussed.

Article Excerpt

A best practice is a process generally accepted as achieving superior results to alternatives. The key to that sentence is "results," which are subjective depending on your goals. Because the scope of the data and documents relied upon by servicers has blossomed in the last decade into a manually improbable challenge and the margin for error is thin, those goals today are primarily focused on proving compliance. However, business is business, and best practices have to meet the practicality test when weighed against many factors, to include sustainability and cost-effectiveness.

Join us at the Reston Hyatt from June 8-9 to learn the latest about MERS QA and mortgage QC outsourcing services and technology. You will learn about our full suite of MERS quality assurance (QA) auditing services, the latest in servicing quality control (QC) as well as our new lien release service.

Be MERS Audit-Ready All Year Long

MERS QA compliance changes create significant challenges to servicing and sub-servicing members. That is why we've developed a full suite of MERS QA services and technology. These solutions are designed to help every MERS Member become "MERS audit-ready all year long" with impeccable data standards and industry best practices related to the assignment of residential real estate mortgages.

The 2017 Tech100 Recognizes MetaSource's mintrak^2® MERS Quality Assurance Software

For the last four years, Housingwire Magazine has recognized the most innovative technology companies in the industry as part of the HW Tech100. Housingwire covers issues in mortgage finance and real estate, including the technology critical for companies in the housing economy.

For the second year in a row, MetaSource has made the Tech100 for 2017, this time in recognition of our mintrak² MERS QA Software in the "Lending, Servicing" category. We previously won the HW Tech100 2016 for our QLink mortgage QC software.

MetaSource Study Finds 12 of Top 15 QC Issues Were TRID-Related

Salt Lake City—Mortgage lenders found the federal "Know Before You Owe" mortgage disclosure rule—formally known as TRID—to be the source of most of their quality control (QC) headaches in 2016, the first full year of the rule's implementation.

TRID accounted for 12 of the top 15 findings of quality control (QC) issues in 2016, according to a review by MetaSource of thousands of post-close QC audits conducted by the Utah-based third party mortgage compliance service provider.

Recently MERS sent an email to all General Members that are listed as the Servicer on 1,000 or more active MINs. This email notification was sent to inform these companies that beginning with the 2017 MERS® Annual Report, MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. will require that all Third Party Reviewers provide their electronic signature on the eAnnual Report.

Assignments and Lien Releases Expert Adds Depth to MetaSource's Portfolio of Mortgage Services and Solutions

Salt Lake City, Utah – MetaSource, the leading provider of business process management (BPM), workflow, and compliance solutions, today announces the acquisition of Dallas-based Orion Financial Group. This acquisition further strengthens the MetaSource mortgage portfolio of solutions, specifically by expanding and adding depth to its existing lien release offering.

MetaSource was recently approached by a leading provider of clean energy financing for residential, multifamily and commercial properties through the PACE program to explore the possibility of leveraging our outsourcing services. They specifically wanted to utilize our pre-fund quality control (QC) service coupled with our revision services so this would no longer be a bottleneck to their explosive growth.

After taking on their pre-fund QC audits, we've moved on to help them streamline other manual, labor-intensive workflows so they can focus on their core business and leave the processing headaches to us.