By leveraging modern technology, financial institutions have made daily interactions with their customers frictionless and effortless. But there are still high-volume banking activities where greater efficiencies can be achieved. In particular, new lending technology enabled by two key capabilities — cloud and automation — is reshaping loan origination. Cloud delivers the latest loan software capabilities to your desktop. Automation brings a new level of efficiency to the process.
Cloud services allow lenders to implement the latest loan origination software (LOS) without the need for additional on-premise investments in IT infrastructure and operational overhead. Advantages of a cloud strategy include:
- Quick deployment: Since there is no need to fund, purchase, and deploy hardware, a web-based LOS solution is quickly deployed.
- Cloud-based integration: Provides access to data sources for credit, employment, identity, and income verification without the need for costly programming.
- Scalability: Easily accommodates processing, data, and geographic growth as the business expands.
Cloud services put the latest LOS functionality in the hands of lenders at a lower cost than legacy, on-premise software. With quick implementation and software updates as well as integrated access to lending-specific data sources, the cloud is the best choice for lenders looking to improve loan origination productivity.
Automation accelerates lending processes and facilitates consistency in decisions. It allows human expertise to be applied where it is of greatest benefit. In many instances, reserving professional judgment for evaluating a borderline application is the most profitable way to leverage an underwriter’s time and experience.
Automated decision rules hold the greatest potential for reshaping loan origination. They replace the tedium of countless manual decisions and tasks, accelerate the loan origination process, and enable lenders to quickly and consistently evaluate creditworthiness.
Decision rules are easily created and modified by business users. Technical programming expertise is not required. They provide greater flexibility regarding the degree of automation: fully automated, mixed (using both automatic and human reviews of criteria), or completely manual review of criteria, as in the case of borderline thresholds for qualification.
Added benefits of decision rules include auditability (you have a record of what rules were in effect) and a reduction of arbitrary decisions that may characterize certain loan types. Decision rules and the streamlined workflow they drive allow lenders to:
- Process applications more efficiently and consistently
- Automatically reject applications that don’t meet established criteria
- Focus efforts on applications that improve profit
To stay competitive in a challenging climate, lenders must seriously consider implementing cloud-based loan origination software and automated rules decisioning. Lower costs, quick implementation, and frequent updates are key benefits of cloud. Automation, enabled by decision rules, eliminates manual steps to improve process efficiency.
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