UDAAP is a Principle-Based Law, Avoid Dealing With it in a Rule-Based Way for Compliance

Mortgage Feb 13, 2017

The UDAAP law is driven by principles. Lenders need to embrace the spirit of the law to ensure compliance, rather than fall foul by dealing with it in a rule-based way. While technical regulations governing mortgage servicing, has often been a big challenge for mortgage servicers, complying with UDAAP – or unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices has always…

How Lenders Can Gain Competitive Advantage in 2016

Mortgage Lender Jan 22, 2017

Although regulatory pressures are some of the most important ones facing the entire mortgage industry today, lenders surveyed in a recent project by National Mortgage News are focusing their attention away from defense focused compliance goals, into opportunities to improve their competitive advantage in the marketplace instead. Although regulatory compliance is still a key issue for lenders across the country,…

Moving Beyond Traditional Outsourcing Benefits

Mortgage Dec 24, 2016

Dating back to 1980s the concept “outsourcing” came from the American Glossary “outside resourcing”. In it’s true sense, it referred to finding resources outside the organization for certain tasks that are either existing pain points of the organization or soon to be. Over the last two decades this concept has been very popular in businesses across the world and outsourcing…