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TORRANCE, Calif., May 16, 2017- DocMagic, Inc., the mortgage industry’s leading provider of document production, automated compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced that it completed North Carolina’s first 100 percent paperless eClosing. The DocMagic-driven eClosing was completed on Friday, May 5th at North State Bank and was carried out in the presence of borrowers Jason and Karen Boccardi, the North Carolina Secretary of State, a closing paralegal, an eNotary, and members of the media who documented the historical event.

Attorneys from the Hunoval Law firm attended via interactive video. The entire eClosing took only about 20 minutes to complete.

DocMagic’s Total eClose™, which contains all the components to facilitate a fully compliant, 100 percent paperless digital closing, served as the single platform that enabled the entire transaction. eNotarization was facilitated by long-time DocMagic strategic partner World Wide Notary (WWN).

DocMagic facilitated four of the five statewide-first eClosings, as well as the CFPB’s eClosing pilot program. The North Carolina eClosing was part of a state sponsored eClosing Pilot Program that was established in 2016 by North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall to create a best practices guide for mortgage lenders seeking the heightened security, speed and efficiency of eClosings.

North State Bank is the only lender in North Carolina, and one of only a handful of lenders nationwide, to have successfully completed a 100 percent paperless eClosing. The eNote was registered on the MERS eRegistry and made available to Mid America Mortgage, the investor in the transaction—within minutes of being executed by the borrowers.

Unlike hybrid systems that still require various documents to be papered-out, DocMagic’s eClosing system enables a 100 percent paperless process—this means that the eClosing requires zero paper from any party whatsoever, including documents requiring notarization.

“There’s a big difference between 100 percent paperless eClosings, and semi-paperless eClosings when it comes to quality, speed, security and efficiency,” stated Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “Together, DocMagic and our partner World Wide Notary provided the most comprehensive, advanced technology solution to enable the safest, highest quality, fastest, most efficient experience—not only for the borrowers, but also for the lender, investor, and every settlement services provider at the closing table.”

“This was our first North Carolina eClosing; it is not our last. We want this to become a regular option for lenders and their customers because of the many advantages eClosing offers versus the slower, traditional paper-based system,” Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall said in a statement.

Secretary of State Marshall has been a leading advocate for modernizing traditional business practices in North Carolina to better compete at the national and international levels.

“We’re proud to have been selected by the state of North Carolina to participate in this historic event and to work with progressive lenders like North State Bank who are moving the industry forward into a faster, safer and more efficient closing process,” said Iannitti. “We’re looking forward to further supporting Secretary of State Marshall’s efforts to elevate the competitiveness of businesses in North Carolina.”

DocMagic’s digital mortgage suite includes all the critical components required to execute a 100% paperless eClosing transaction. The single-source platform creates a highly-efficient, transparent and fully compliant eClosing process that guides users through every step, logs all activities and creates an irrefutable audit trail.

About DocMagic:
DocMagic, Inc. is the leading provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance, eSign, eDelivery and comprehensive eMortgage services for the mortgage industry. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Torrance, Calif., DocMagic, Inc. develops software, mobile apps, processes and web-based systems for the production and delivery of compliant loan document packages. The company’s compliance experts and in-house legal staff consistently monitor legal and regulatory changes at both the federal and state levels to ensure accuracy.

For more information on DocMagic, visit http://www.docmagic.com/.

Integration reduces time from initiating a loan application to receiving disclosures from days or weeks to just minutes

TORRANCE, Calif., May 9, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — DocMagic, Inc., the mortgage industry’s leading provider of document production, automated compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced that it completed an integration with BeSmartee, a leader in mortgage automation technology.
This integration creates a seamless connection between the two technologies, which fulfill the first two major events in the eMortgage process: online borrower application and electronic delivery of disclosures. Via this integration, DocMagic and BeSmartee are enabling borrowers to complete a loan application and receive disclosures in a matter of minutes, rather than the days or weeks that is typical with manual processes. Once the application is complete, disclosures are automatically created and presented to the borrower for electronic signature, with no additional effort by the lender.

“eMortgages offer better speeds, security, quality and accuracy, which translate to a better borrower experience and more efficient, economical operations for the lender,” said Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “This integration further escalates those benefits by allowing two great technologies to operate at their peak collaborative performance.”

BeSmartee connects borrowers and lenders directly with providers that instantly validates the borrower’s income, asset and credit information, such as the IRS, financial institutions, and credit bureaus. The technology’s auto-population feature helps borrowers complete the application in a fraction of the time, while its validation feature provides lenders with vetted information for a faster underwriting process.

DocMagic technology saves time by generating a fully-compliant electronic disclosure package based on the borrower’s information in a matter of minutes, rather than the days it takes with even the fastest manual processes. That package is then instantly presented to the borrower, who can review and execute the documents on-screen, once again reducing a traditionally days-long process to minutes.

“A true eMortgage uses no paper at all. It’s a start-to-finish electronic process that requires collaboration among certain technology providers,” said Iannitti. “DocMagic is proud to be the solution that connects not only those technologies, but also all of the entities that use them, to enable a truly electronic process. It’s great to partner with progressive companies like BeSmartee who are helping to make eMortgages possible.”

“The BeSmartee/DocMagic integration avails a level of speed that the industry hasn’t experienced before but that, as more lenders discover its impact on sales and operations, more borrowers will come to expect,” states Tim Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of BeSmartee. “Together, we’re delivering the type of speed and service that Millennials have come to expect, which is key to securing new business from this coveted group of borrowers.”

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DocMagic, BeSmartee and LendingQB Host Webinar on Digital Lending To Improve Loan Process

Costa Mesa, CA, April 24, 2017 – DocMagic, the mortgage industry’s leading provider of document preparation, automated compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, BeSmartee, a leading online mortgage automation company and LendingQB, a provider of lean lending loan origination technology solutions, will hold a webinar discussing the opportunities and challenges of the “Digital Lending” paradigm on April 26, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PST.

Webinar attendees can expect to hear how the mortgage lending process is being transformed into a pure digital format, and how that impacts borrowers, lenders and institutional investors. Webinar topics will include a discussion of current-day digital lending efforts on the point-of-sale, loan origination, closing and delivery phases of mortgage lending. The three hosts will demonstrate how their systems interact with each other and highlight the critical aspects of data integrity, workflow, exchange and compliance that provides the necessary framework for a pure digital lending process. 

“Digital lending is more than just a mobile loan application,” said Tim Nguyen, President of LendingQB. “The webinar will help broaden people’s perspective on what digital lending is and what its true potential is. Leveraging a data-driven mortgage lending process reduces the risk to investors because it provides the accessibility and transparency they need. To achieve this level of data clarity, it’s important that every participant in the process – the point of sale system, the LOS, the e-Vaulting system – be equipped with the best integrations that can communicate securely and seamlessly throughout the entire loan life cycle.”

“The point-of-sale is key to creating a positive digital experience with the consumer,” said Tim Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of BeSmartee. “But the consumer experience extends beyond a loan application. Lenders need to stay engaged with their borrowers by providing value-added services such as loan status updates, condition tracking, closing disclosures – activities that reach deep into the functionality of the LOS. Seamless integrations between the LOS and POS bridges the gap between consumer experience and a lender’s workflow that not only saves time and money, but ensures data integrity.”

“Lenders need to understand all the components of the eMortgage process so they can avoid costly mistakes,” said Dominic Iannitti, President and CEO of DocMagic, whose Total eClose™ solution seamlessly integrates every component of the closing process. “Digital mortgages require numerous technologies working in tandem. The way they communicate and interact with each other can have a huge impact on the effectiveness—and the cost—of the process.”

For more information and to register for the free webinar, please visit http://info.docmagic.com/digital-lending-webinar.

About DocMagic

DocMagic, Inc. is the leading provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services for the mortgage banking industry. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Torrance, Calif., DocMagic, Inc. develops software, mobile apps, processes and web-based systems for the production and delivery of compliant loan document packages. The company’s compliance experts and in-house legal staff consistently monitor legal and regulatory changes at both the federal and state levels to ensure accuracy. For more information on DocMagic, visit www.docmagic.com.

About BeSmartee

BeSmartee, Inc. has developed a best of breed mortgage origination technology, enabling lenders to compliantly take their borrowers from the initial contact into Underwriting in 20 minutes with a complete application, credit report, income/asset documentation, eSigned/eDelivered disclosures and paid appraisal. Founded in 2008 with headquarters in Huntington Beach, Calif., the BeSmartee, Inc. team has worked on the front and back-end of mortgage originations for over a decade, using their knowledge and experience to shift the paradigm and develop a truly unrivaled experience with an array of tools and features catering to the specific needs of mortgage lenders and their borrowers.

For more information on how BeSmartee's Smart Mortgage can reduce the mortgage process by up to two weeks, visit www.besmartee.com.

About LendingQB

LendingQB is a provider of Lean Lending solutions. The Lean Lending solution consists of a 100 percent web browser-based, end-to-end loan residential mortgage origination system, best of breed integrations with key industry partners and ‘adoptimization’ services that result in faster cycle times and lower costs per loan. For more information, please call 888.285.3912 or visit www.lendingqb.com.

One of the nation’s largest lenders completes its first eClosing as an eWarehouse lender, using DocMagic’s Total eClose™ solution for eWarehouse lending

TORRANCE, Calif., April 21, 2017—DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced that Texas Capital Bank has implemented its Total eClose™ solution. This implementation enables the bank to function as an eWarehouse lender. They can now accept and fund eNotes from its lender customers that want to drastically speed up the process of closing and selling loans.

Total eClose™, DocMagic’s eClosing technology, is a single-source, centralized platform that provides all necessary components to enable a completely paperless digital closing. Texas Capital Bank is a leading provider of warehouse credit facilities to fund mortgage origination and acquisition.

Texas Capital Bank recently funded its first eNote with a key lender client using DocMagic’s eMortgage technology suite. The eNote was instantly delivered to the bank, registered with MERS, and securely stored in DocMagic’s eVault. They completed the entire transaction electronically and transferred the eNote to Fannie Mae in minutes, rather than days.

“DocMagic’s eClosing and eMortgage solutions have provided Texas Capital Bank with the tools necessary to incorporate the funding of eNotes into our everyday operational procedures,” said Donnie Martin, Executive Vice President at Texas Capital Bank. “We believe the digital mortgage revolution and acceptance of eNotes will continue to grow. We are pleased to have partnered with DocMagic to build out the infrastructure needed to support the eNote funding process at the bank, which in turn supports the trend towards digital mortgages.”

“It’s very rewarding to support Texas Capital Bank as they move forward and break ground as an eWarehouse leader,” said Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “In this industry, it’s forward-thinking, tech-savvy organizations like this that thrive, set the pace and reach their goals. They understand the fundamental role that advanced technology plays in their—and the industry’s—progress. We look forward to collaborating further as we help drive true end-to-end eMortgage adoption.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has repeatedly encouraged lenders to implement eClosing technology and operational processes to make obtaining a home loan as easy as possible for borrowers.

North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall wants the state to be a leader in eCommerce. It adopted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act and the Electronic Notarizations Act. All of this was to prepare for the day when the state could institute eClosings.

“We have been working diligently over the past 15 years to build the infrastructure to build electronic commerce,” Director of Electronic Notarization and Notary Enforcement Ozie Stallworth said. “We thought it was a prime time for North Carolina to step forward and lead in this space because we have the legal infrastructure in place to support a full end-to-end eClosing. We looked to our state’s lending institutions to see whether or not they understood and believed that the industry was headed down the road towards eClosings.”

Stallworth determined the financial institutions were eager to move forward. North State Bank Mortgage President J. Kenneth Sykes agreed and said the state’s efforts are cutting edge.

“We believe that eClosings will enhance the customer experience and provide a more secure method of mortgage loan closings,” Sykes said.

Invitations were set out to financial institutions, title agents and technology providers asking them to participate in the pilot. Together the participants began educating each other on what was possible, potential barriers and what the eClosing transaction would look like.

“What we are trying to accomplish through this pilot is the full end-to-end electronic process,” Stallworth said. “Not the hybrid version. We encourage all forms of electronic commerce, whether it’s hybrid or not, but this pilot is focused on incorporating in-person electronic notarization so that the entire process from start to finish can be completely electronic without any paper in the process at all.”

DocMagic Director of eServices Tim Anderson said this pilot is unique because it is one of the first to be officially sponsored by the state.

“This will be a full paperless eClosing, including eNotary and both title and lender documents,” Anderson said. “We not only see this as providing a better consumer education and experience, but for the lenders selling the loan to investors to eliminate the post-closing issues, and if you can do that, investors can fund the loan with certainty and avoid any post-closing trailing doc issues that may hold up funding the loan. Everyone wins.”

eOriginal General Manager of Digital Mortgage Simon Moir agreed. He said the pilot offers an opportunity to bring all the players together in one place to remove the barriers — both real and perceived.

Potential barriers include jurisdictions that aren’t eRecording or still keep all files on paper. Sykes said with any major change of format within the lending industry caution is expected. But Stallworth said there hasn’t been any push back so far.

“The active participants in the pilot are reaching out individually and collectively to various stakeholder groups such as the Realtor association and the State Bar, the Bar association, the bankers association and others, to make sure they are aware and informed of this transformative effort. It is important to have the input of all the stakeholders to ensure that eClosing in North Carolina will be a benefit to all in the state and to the consumers in particular.,” Stallworth said. “We anticipate hearing more of those voices.

“Secretary Marshall has long stressed the importance of making technological advances to ensure that those doing business in North Carolina would be able to compete at the highest levels in an increasingly global marketplace.  This eClosing pilot program is the fruition of the many years of working to construct the statutory framework to support electronic commerce and will potentially be a model for other states to follow.”

TORRANCE, Calif., April 5, 2017— DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, reported a 42 percent increase in revenue for 2016. The company credits its growth to the mortgage industry’s demand for products that enable TRID compliance, eSignatures and eClosings. This is the second consecutive year that DocMagic’s revenue has increased by roughly 40 percent.
“Lenders have been looking for ways to assure TRID compliance since 2015, and DocMagic’s SmartCLOSE™ technology has become the industry’s go-to solution,” said Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “Our user base has grown quickly. A lot of existing DocMagic clients saw the value of SmartCLOSE™ immediately. It has also been an entry point for many of our new lender clients.”

SmartCLOSE™ enables lenders to interface with settlement providers and other relevant parties in a secure portal to share, edit, validate, audit, track and collaborate on documents, data and fees. In the past two years, DocMagic has completed numerous key integrations between lenders using SmartCLOSE™, their loan origination systems, and new settlement service provider systems. More integrations are being developed for 2017.

“The number of eSignatures completed has increased significantly since launching SmartCLOSE™ and Total eClose™,” said Iannitti, referencing activity for eSignSystems, a division of DocMagic that provides digital transaction management and electronic storage systems. “Lenders appreciate that they can stay compliant while gaining the speed and convenience of a digital process.”

DocMagic anticipates its growth will continue in 2017. In February of this year, the company completed a successful pilot that enabled one of the country’s largest warehouse lenders to accept and fund eNotes, a transition that Iannitti expects to become a major industry trend in the next 12 to 18 months.

“It’s very simple — at DocMagic, we’re dedicated to addressing the industry’s needs and demands with the very best solutions on the market,” said Iannitti. “That’s been the foundation of our business since we started, and we’re pleased to say that it remains the formula for our growth today.”

DocMagic’s growth plans include ongoing calibration of its infrastructure. To maintain its standard for high quality and service, the company added staff in nearly all functional areas, including senior software developers, project managers, implementation specialists, technical support representatives, integration staff and business development professionals.

progressinlending.com | And The 2017 Winners Are … //

PROGRESS in Lending Association has named the work done by DocMagic a top innovation. As the mortgage industry slowly embraces the Digital Mortgage, DocMagic launched what was dubbed its “Total eClosing solution,” which enables a comprehensive, true 100% paperless eClosing that automates the entire process — from start to finish. Looking back, DocMagic was brought to the forefront of eClosing technology awareness with its participation in the CFPB’s eClosing pilot in 2014. This vendor was 1 of only 12 firms that was invited by the CFPB to participate. If the industry is going to go digital it will need vendors like DocMagic to lead the way. The Total eClose solution includes the seamless incorporation of its eSignature-enabled SMART Documents, a nationwide eNotary network, MERS eRegistry access, eWarehousing, eNotes, a secure eVault, and secure investor eDelivery — all in a single, comprehensive eClosing platform and completely TRID-compliant. There is absolutely no paper involved at any point, at any time.

TORRANCE, Calif., March 16, 2017—DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced that it was named to National Mortgage Professional (NMP) magazine’s annual ‘Top 100 Mortgage Employers’ list for 2017. This is the second consecutive year that DocMagic has earned placement on the annual list.

Winners were selected using NMP magazine’s proprietary Mortgage Company Employer Score (MECS), which weighs and scores various areas in a company to arrive at the list each year. A polling of NMP subscribers is used with the following criteria: corporate culture; compensation; day-to-day management; internal communications; marketing; training; resources; long-term strategy; ingenuity; speed; technology; and industry participation.

“Employees are the heart and soul of DocMagic—it’s their ingenuity, dedication, and constant commitment to raising the bar that continues to make us one of the mortgage industry’s longstanding category leaders,” stated Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic, Inc. “We are pleased that National Mortgage Professional magazine has recognized the contributions the DocMagic team makes to the industry, and we’re proud to be selected as a Top 100 Mortgage Employer for the second consecutive year.”

NMP is one of the mortgage industry’s leading go-to sources for extensive news coverage for mortgages, origination, compliance, secondary marketing, servicing, settlement, technology, trending, and more.

By Tim Anderson

The days of no pressure are over. Any lender that hasn’t already waded into the ePool had better be ready to jump. With immense regulatory pressure looming, the old method of just doing something is no longer sufficient. It's time for a new tack.

The recent news about the IRS decision is an ex- ample of this. With all the buzz around this news, we’re already hearing from lenders who are interested in a point solution that will allow them to take advantage of this decision for doing business with the IRS. This makes sense because this is front and center in the news, but since these lenders are not considering how this decision impacts the rest of their business, it’s short sighted.

The 4506-T is just one document and while it makes good sense to make the ordering, accepting, processing, filing and storing that document all electronic, what about all the other documents? The e-signature part of this solution can and should be applied elsewhere in the enterprise. When it is extended, it should be done the same way. If it’s good enough for the goose, it’s good for the gander as well.

Seeking a paperless map. Electronic signatures are more than a digital picture of a signature; they are a process, a ceremony. E-sign is a legal process that includes proof that the borrower actually viewed every document, whether there’s a signature or not. Auditors will demand to know if the borrower actually viewed every document. There are also requirements around whether the signature is embedded or an overlay. There are other requirements around how the lender provides the tamper- evident seal. Investors have a lot to say about what is actually involved.

Providing a common and consistent eSigning experience. These processes can vary by vendor, but using different types of e-sign technology across an enterprise can cause problems with investors, to say nothing of confusing borrowers and degrading the consumer’s experience. Remember, from the consumer’s perspective, there are many other documents they would like to sign electronically. If the lender hopes to get consumer adoption, the same tools should be used across the entire process and borrowers should not be asked to sign some documents electronically and others traditionally.

Lenders no longer have the luxury of gently moving into the paperless world. They need to get in soon and they need to take their entire lending process with them. That means that institutions will be seeking solutions that will get all of the paper out. Lacking that, they will seek out partial solutions that already carry within them the map for the future steps that will get them fully electronic.

The very best way to ensure that is to work with a vendor who can take you down that road as fast and as far as you want to go, but in no case slower than the government requires. Choosing a vendor that can only provide a point or piecemeal solution, without a plan for getting to the next step, will put the institution at risk.

An “e”nterprise solution, from application, to closing, to servicing. A good RFP will go a long way toward separating those players who cannot provide a complete solution from those that can. It will also reveal which vendors understand the nuances—from application all the way to closing and loss mitigation—that could impact the lender’s ability to comply with investor and regulatory guidelines. Moving into electronic lending is no longer a simple, cheap or fast implementation. Like everything else in this business, it requires careful consideration.

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This is part one of a two-part article on the industry-wide transition out of paper-based processes to electronic, from application through to closing and servicing. Tim Anderson is the Director of eServices at DocMagic.

Posted with permission from The Mortgage Executive Magazine.

By Tim Anderson

For years a core group of us has been telling the industry that it’s time to get the paper out of our systems. We’ve performed studies that show paper is more expensive, that it takes more time to process, is usually missing pages or signatures, or gets lost. It took the foreclosure crisis to really bring home to the industry the negative implications of lost or incomplete documents. After billions of dollars in settlements to federal regulators and attorneys, it looks like our industry is finally ready to say goodbye to paper forever, or at least a majority of it.

Anyone who has yet to be convinced will get all the persuasion they need when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau implements the Three Business Day Rule for mortgage loan closings. When lenders and their closing agents are forced to deliver a correct settlement statement to the borrower three days before closing, they’ll learn just how difficult it will be to get everything right and on time in a paper world. Taking their businesses fully electronic will be the only way to ensure compliance.
The good news is that the vast majority of lenders are already moving in that direction. In January, the industry got a boost when the IRS announced that it would finally be accepting electronically signed documents for the ordering of 4506-T tax transcript orders. The FHA, one of the very few remaining federal government holdouts, is expected to follow suit later this year.

The worry now is how lenders will go about making that important transition. Pushing the point solution. For much of the past decade or so, electronic lending advocates like myself have been urging lenders to quit worrying about their entire enterprise and just pick a process and take it electronic. By taking out the paper in a piecemeal fashion, lenders would at least be moving in the right direction and selling themselves on the benefits of paperless lending in the process. This tactic worked for a number of reasons.

First, it was inexpensive. When it comes to technology systems, it always costs less, in the short run, to isolate your systems and concentrate on a single process. This kind of razor sharp focus lets technologists create workable solutions more quickly. But if we’ve learned anything from the foreclosure process, it’s that there are no truly unconnected systems in our business (or at least there shouldn’t be). Ultimately, the lower price tag enticed more lenders to dip their toes into the paperless world and this was good news.

Second, when the project is kept tight and focused, it doesn't take long to configure and test a solution. This meant technologists could finalize their work faster on isolated processes and deliver successful pilots to lenders more quickly. In the end, a successful test is the only way to convince an executive to move more deeply into a solution.

The biggest reason that partial solutions were beneficial in the early days is that by getting lenders to experience their business without paper, the benefits that researchers promised proved to be real. It became clear to the industry that it really did make sense to do everything electronically.

This prompted more lenders to take another step into the digital world, and another one after that. Because the industry was under no real pressure to make this shift work, many lenders made a gentle transition toward fully electronic systems and are enjoying the benefits today.

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This is part one of a two-part article on the industry-wide transition out of paper-based processes to electronic, from application through to closing and servicing. Tim Anderson is the Director of eServices at DocMagic.

Posted with permission from The Mortgage Executive Magazine.

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