Ellie Mae, a provider of innovative on-demand software solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry, recently announced that it has launched a new major release of Encompass, its all-in-one mortgage management solution.
Encompass 17.2 enhancements are intended to help lenders of all sizes close more loans, shorten time to close and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Specifically, the new release includes support for 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) collection and reporting changes that expand data capture related to applicants, property and loan features. Additionally, the new release offers secondary marketing enhancements and updates to Encompass Product and Pricing Service.
“With this major release of Encompass, we’re providing the innovative capabilities that enable our banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders to originate and fund mortgages with complete compliance, loan quality and efficiency,” Ellie Mae president and CEO Jonathan Corr said in a press release. “While data collection under the new HMDA begins in January of 2018, this release gives clients support in advance for the new fields to provide greater time to educate, train and prepare.”
Encompass 17.2 enhancements include:
Support for 2018 HMDA Collection and Reporting Changes
Ellie Mae is seeking to take the lead in implementing and delivering solutions for lenders to be in compliance with regulations impacting their business. Encompass 17.2 enables collection of the new data set required for loans with a final disposition in 2018 and beyond in a single system of record. A HMDA LAR (Loan Application Register) compliant with the new guidelines published in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule is featured in the solution, as well as substantial automation to reduce lender processing time and risk in creating their reports. Also included is the optional expanded demographic information addendum.
Ellie Mae has a substantial number of tools and resources available to help clients prepare and train internal teams on the new HMDA reporting changes.
Secondary Marketing Enhancements
Criteria Based Auto-Lock: Encompass 17.2 includes new functionality intended to enable more lock desk controls to mitigate risk and reduce exposure. The new criteria based auto-lock allows for control of which lock scenarios should not be allowed to be auto-locked.
Bulk Pricing for Trade Management: To further enhance support for capital markets, Encompass 17.2 includes enhancements for individual loan pricing on bulk trades for correspondent buyers and sellers. It also supports a weighted average bulk price that can be applied to all loans in the bulk.
Encompass Product and Pricing Service Enhancements
Encompass 17.2 introduces support for additional investor pricing, support for planned unit development (PUD), the ability to identify geography locations using geo-coding and support for VA maximum guarantee to reflect the GSE conforming limits.