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What is IR Verification Platform

What is the IR Verification Platform?

Why Are Employment Verifications (VOE) and Income Verifications Necessary? Following the 2008 financial crisis, Congress enacted a host of new measures designed to ensure that the worst excesses of the 2000s were not repeated. One of the reforms,...

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Validate Borrower Assets, Income, and Employment using a single VOA report

In the latest "Stewart in the Studio" episode, Craig Leabig discusses Fannie Mae's recent announcement about single-source validation. This announcement is revolutionary for Desktop Underwriter leaders who can now verify income and employment using...

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Unlocking the Power of Bank Transaction Data

How to validate income and employment with Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter using AccountChek's asset report In today's mortgage market, lenders face many challenges, including balancing the need for quick verification of borrower eligibility...

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Navigating Mortgage Servicing: Insights from Industry Experts

Listen to an enlightening discussion featuring Rich Kuegler, SVP, Director of Client Success at Stewart Lender Services, Shannon Santos, EVP of Data Solutions at Informative Research Data Solutions, and Matt Jenkins, VP of Valuation Services at...

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Dark Matter and Informative Research team up to help lenders improve pull-through for borrowers who have a history of consecutive rent payments

New workflow in the Empower LOS makes it easier for mortgage lenders to consider rent payments when qualifying first-time homebuyers Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter), an innovative new leader in mortgage technology backed by time-tested loan...

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Shawn Jobe talks credit score modernization & bi-merge credit reports

In the latest episode of "Stewart in the Studio," Shawn Jobe discusses changes in credit score reporting and industry implementation updates. During the episode, he meets up with Marvin Stone to talk about the latest summit at MISMO, a standard...

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12 days of Stewart with Shannon Santos IRDS

"Informative Research primarily focuses on the mortgage lending sector, with a particular emphasis on consumer data that is essential for generating mortgage loans seamlessly. The development of our data solutions was based on our commitment to...

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How Forbearance Impacts Mortgage Loans

What Does Forbearance Mean for the Mortgage Industry As we’ve all seen recently, regulators and the GSEs are focused on creating policies and guidance to help borrowers impacted by COVID-19 while maintaining liquidity. Unfortunately, a growing...

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LendingQB Integration Better than Ever

Our latest integration enhancements with LendingQB now provides enhanced functionality for the SoftQual solution and has added Tax-Return and Social Security Verification services that are now available through the platform.

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