Strategy

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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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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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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Verification of Assets

Verification of Assets (VOA) and Why It Matters

In the modern mortgage market, particularly post-2008, one of the most crucial aspects of designing and executing a successful product is risk assessment. Gone are the days of borrowers’ cozy relationship with loan officers or bank executives acting...

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How Verification of Employment (VOE) Works for Today's Mortgage Lenders

Following the financial crisis of 2008, U.S. policymakers developed new laws and regulations meant to prevent another economic disaster. One of the more consequential laws passed by Congress was the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act...

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Stewart Strengthens Data and Analytics, Platform-as-a-Service Capabilities by Announcing its Intent to Acquire Informative Research

Informative Research serves more than 3,000 customers across the United States and offers a wide range of mission critical solutions through its proprietary platform to streamline the loan cycle.

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trended credit data

Beyond Trended Data: Target Marketing for Your Future Customers

Trended data is a powerful tool: just ask Fannie Mae, who has been using it to improve lending risk assessment. But you can use trended data to uncover the consumers who are almost ready to be your customers and start warming them up as leads.

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data security

4 Security Questions You Should Ask Your Data Provider

With most employees in the country still working from home, lenders have an even greater a responsibility to ensure the security of consumer data throughout their entire supply chain, including information supplied by data vendors.

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