Ellie Mae, a provider of on-demand software solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry, announced that it has integrated its proprietary Encompass Flood Service into its Total Quality Loan (TQL) program to provide mortgage lenders with the accurate, efficient and consistent ordering of required flood certifications from one centralized tool as part of their Encompass mortgage management solution.
TQL enables lenders to confirm quality in their loan origination processes by auto-reviewing against industry and investor-defined standards; transforming the loan review process into an “exception-based” process; and providing a digital vault for all verifications, documentation and images to capture the steps taken to promote quality and compliance.
Using Encompass Flood Service, lenders can now order basic and life-of-loan flood certifications directly from the TQL tool without leaving the loan file or logging into another provider’s website.
Encompass Flood Service now automatically populates more than a dozen key data elements, as documented in the flood certificate, and returns the certification to the borrower’s electronic loan file. The program can also transfer both the data and certification, along with additional required documentation, directly to an investor. With the new integration, lenders now have the capability to order related/refinance determinations — a cost-effective solution when a second record is needed for piggyback loans.
Additionally, Encompass Flood Service provides special property determinations for non-resident dwellings that may fall into special flood hazard areas, and also provides life-of-loan determinations for portfolio lenders that service their loans in-house.
“One of the top reasons that clients tell us their loans contain suspense conditions is due to missing flood certifications. Our Total Quality Loan program’s best practice workflow now directly addresses this issue by incorporating the ordering of flood services,” said Jonathan Corr, president and chief operating officer of Ellie Mae. “Encompass Flood Service is a logical expansion of our TQL services that also include automated income verification, compliance checks, fraud detection and collateral risk reviews. Together these services help assure loan quality and drive cost and inefficiency out of the process.”