There’s a meeting that happens in almost every organization. Someone presents the revenue figure. Someone else has a different one. A third person pulls up a spreadsheet. Twenty minutes later, the actual agenda hasn’t started yet. The room has a trust problem. When sales, finance, ops, and marketing each run their own reporting, they don’t […]
Spreadsheets aren’t free. They feel free. Your team already knows how to use them, the process is familiar, and the reports do eventually get done. But the bill shows up in places that don’t make it onto any dashboard. It shows up in time. Hours spent pulling data from disconnected systems, cleaning it, cross-checking it, […]
What is Quality Control in Mortgage Operations? Key Components of Effective Quality Control Best Practices for Implementing Quality Control Benefits of Quality Control in Mortgage Operations
The Fed’s July statement was the shortest in recent memory. That brevity is the story. At the July 28-29 meeting, the FOMC held the federal funds rate steady at 3.50%-3.75%. Economic activity is expanding at a solid pace, the Committee said, with strong productivity growth and job gains keeping pace with the workforce. Inflation remains […]
How lenders are using intelligent automation, cleaner data, and human expertise to scale smarter As 2025 draws to a close and the industry looks ahead to 2026, it’s clear that the past year marked a turning point for mortgage technology. Margin pressure, heightened regulatory expectations, unpredictable volume, and rising borrower demands for speed and transparency […]
Project management in the mortgage industry is often highly complex and requires that teams, processes, compliance experts, and technology work together effectively for execution excellence. A project’s success can be attributed to a range of factors from exceptional and organized project leadership and detailed planning through project methodology and cross-team collaboration. Since the COVID-19 virus […]
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the average net cost to originate a mortgage (all loan types) in the fourth quarter 2018 was $8,611. Imagine, only six years earlier in 2013, the cost to originate a loan was closer to $5,000. There is no single reason for this astronomical increase, but industry economists cite low […]
