TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2019—DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced that its Total eClose™ platform is the eClosing leader based on market share, overall satisfaction and lender loyalty in STRATMOR Group’s 2019 Mortgage Technology Insight Study.

“STRATMOR’s study places DocMagic as the eClosing leader, with more than 52.4 percent of the market comprised of banks, credit unions, and independent mortgage bankers,” said Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “We’re thrilled to have our customers rank us so highly in a study by an organization as reliable and respected as STRATMOR.”

DocMagic also led eClosing providers in overall satisfaction ratings and STRATMOR’s coveted Lender Loyalty Score® analysis, which the study states is based on lender satisfaction and intent to continue using the technology.

A second DocMagic technology, the company’s document generation solution, also holds the highest market share in its category. Together, Total eClose and DocMagic’s dynamic document generation can provide lenders with 100 percent paperless eClosings.

According to STRATMOR Group, this year’s study was based on responses from 250 mortgage professionals representing 209 unique lenders. The 2019 survey represents 29 percent of the mortgage market and draws in part upon 2017 HMDA data to maximize accuracy. STRATMOR defines eClosing technology as a system that allows lenders to deliver fully digital and also hybrid eClosings through a central platform. STRATMOR concluded that “eClosing represents a significant ROI opportunity for lenders to automate.”

DocMagic’s Total eClose platform is a comprehensive solution that delivers a completely paperless workflow and seamlessly integrates every component of the closing process. It includes a robust eDocument library with integrated eSign technology; the MISMO Category One SMARTDoc® eNote; eNotary technology for all 50 states; direct connectivity to the MERS® eRegistry; GSE-certified eVault storage for one year; secure and compliant investor delivery; and a complete audit trail for proof of compliance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Persons interested in learning more about the industry’s leading eClosing platform can contact sales@docmagic.com.

About STRATMOR Group:

Founded in 1985, STRATMOR Group has, since inception, focused exclusively on making the mortgage business better for lenders and the borrowers they serve. Today, STRATMOR is a data-driven advisory that guides lenders and vendor clients alike to make smart strategic decisions, solve complex challenges, streamline operations, improve profitability and accelerate growth. For more information, visit https://www.stratmorgroup.com/.

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TORRANCE, Calif., October 16, 2019—DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, announced the launch of its new LoanMagic mobile application. LoanMagic, which is provided free to all DocMagic customers, leverages a powerful backend platform that provides full interoperability with DocMagic solutions, as well as other third party mortgage software.

LoanMagic™ is provided free to customers as part of DocMagic’s strategy to increase adoption of digital lending.

“Bringing mobile functionality to borrowers and enabling lenders to connect with their customers is the end goal of most mobile applications in our industry—but at DocMagic, it is just the beginning,” says Dominic Iannitti, president and CEO of DocMagic. “LoanMagic isn’t an add-on. It’s a fully interoperable technology that fills a critical gap in the digital mortgage process. It is just as powerful as any of our flagship and award-winning technology.”

LoanMagic is an intelligent, intuitive mobile application that provides a quick, easy and transparent way for borrowers to stay fully engaged with their loans—and lenders—throughout the mortgage cycle. Its core functionality includes real-time loan status, document uploads, eSigning, integrated messaging, task management, push notifications and more. LoanMagic leverages DocMagic’s eVault to ensure that every transaction is logged and securely stored, and it uses a “gamified” design that encourages borrower engagement by making the process of fulfilling conditions faster, easier and more entertaining for the borrower.

LoanMagic’s primary differentiator is at its back end, which allows the mobile app to provide an unprecedented level of interoperability with numerous relevant technologies, ranging from DocMagic’s solutions to point-of-sale systems (POS), loan origination systems (LOS), borrower-facing applications, closing solutions, various settlement services technology, document scanning, cloud storage tools and others.

“A truly digital mortgage offers a continuous, fluid experience for everyone. The lender should not be patching holes or bridging gaps,” says Iannitti. “With LoanMagic, there’s no data degradation, no delay, no added steps lenders need to take to make up for the use of a mobile application, like they may have experienced with other mobile applications in the past. LoanMagic feels and acts like an organic part of the technologies it supports. That’s imperative for a truly digital mortgage experience.”

LoanMagic eliminates many of the issues that have traditionally caused delays in the mortgage process. The result is greater transparency and visibility, lower cost to produce loans, assurance of compliance and elimination of surprise issues that create delays at the closing table. DocMagic provides LoanMagic at no additional cost to its customers as part of its mission to increase digital mortgage adoption, broaden collaboration among the numerous disparate entities involved in a mortgage, and advance interoperability between systems across the supply chain.

Learn more about LoanMagic or see a demo by contacting sales@docmagic.com or visiting www.docmagic.com/loanmagic. In addition, DocMagic will offer demonstrations of LoanMagic in booth #407 at the MBA Annual Convention & Expo in Austin, Texas from Oct. 27 - 29.

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Providing borrowers with a simple, streamlined eClosing process is critical in today’s competitive mortgage industry. From a borrower standpoint, eClosings can add convenience and improve the overall customer experience. For lenders themselves, they equal faster funding, greater flexibility, and better loan quality. Additionally, they also allow for quicker delivery to the secondary market.

Brian Pannell on the keys to successful digital implementation

Providing borrowers with a simple, streamlined eClosing process is critical in today’s competitive mortgage industry. From a borrower standpoint, eClosings can add convenience and improve the overall customer experience. For lenders themselves, they equal faster funding, greater flexibility, and better loan quality. Additionally, they also allow for quicker delivery to the secondary market.

Still, enabling eClosing is complex, and it takes the right partners — both up-front and downstream — if you’re going to do it right. HousingWire's Sarah Wheeler sat down with Brian Pannell, senior implementation executive at DocMagic, to find out how lenders are navigating these complexities and how DocMagic can help.

Q: What do lenders need to get started?

Brian: The first step is to have a clear picture of your loan lifecycle. To understand this, you need to know who will be funding your loans, who will service them, and who you’ll eventually sell them to.

If you’re planning to outsource any of these steps in the loan process, then you’ll need to know up-front and early on who those partners will be, as well as what technologies and capabilities they have at their disposal. Ultimately, they’ll need to be an integrated part of your loan system, with the ability to communicate securely, share and access borrower documents, and transfer eNotes securely.

Q: What technologies will I need to begin eClosings?

Brian: The most important technology you’ll need is a comprehensive, start-to-finish eClosing platform. The platform needs to take a loan from initial application, allowing you to upload or digitize existing documents for signature, all the way through the closing process, final notarization, and eventually, storing the loan, registering it with MERS, and delivering it to your secondary investor.

It sounds like a lot, but there are platforms out there can do it. It’s just a matter of finding the right platform, as well as a title company that’s accustomed to working within that platform on a daily basis. Your title company and your technology provider are your all-stars when it comes to your eClosing team. Choose them wisely.

Your eClosing platform should allow for:

Digital delivery of documents - You should be able to upload or integrate your existing documents, as well as auto-recognize and enable e-signature fields on them.
Pre-closing collaboration - The platform should allow consumers to view and sign initial documents and collaborate with their title company, the lender, and their attorney, if necessary.
Fully online closing procedures - Borrowers should be able to eSign their documents and have their closing paperwork notarized in a fully digital landscape. You should also have the ability to scan and digitize wet-signed papers, as well as register the eNote on MERS.
Post-closing wrap-up - Once closing is over, borrowers should be able to access their closing documents remotely. The platform should also allow for storing the loan via eVault and transferring the loan to the secondary market.

Q: What is one of the common hurdles many lenders encounter when implementing eClosing?

Brian: Once you have the technology in place, there are still a few hurdles that can hold up your eClosing efforts. One of these is that eNotary and eRecording services may not be an option, depending on where your borrower is located.

Nearly 2,000 U.S. counties currently support eRecording, covering about 85 percent of the population, but still, there are pockets where this process is not allowed. There are also 15 states that don’t currently allow eNotary services. Keep this in mind as you move to implement your eClosing efforts and as you communicate with borrowers about their digital expectations.

Despite this, we expect the eNote movement to continue growing across the country. Just this year, the industry has originated nearly 40,000 eNote-based loans, accounting for more than $8 billion borrowed. That marks a 200-percent jump in just the last few years. With more counties, states, and lenders entering the space at breakneck speeds, those numbers are poised to grow exponentially in the years to come.

Q. What are some critical implementation requirements organizations often underestimate?

Brian: What is oftentimes overlooked is the unwavering commitment lenders need to have to eClosing adoption. The directive to provide eClosings should come from the C-suite and trickle down to the operational level. When it does, executives, operations and loan officers are all kept on the same page. The motivations for each party may differ but the main goal remains the same.

During successful digital implementations, every key player involved realizes that this is transforming the business process, not just a sales cycle event. Management should also understand that going through the change in processes comes with possible bumps in the road but shifting to new vendor partners will ultimately provide a more efficient and better workflow — resulting in a better borrower experience.

Learn more about DocMagic's seamless and compliant digital platforms for completely paperless eClosings.

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NEXT™ Raises over $3,200 in Less than One Hour for Girls Inc. of Chicago

CHICAGO, August 29, 2019 — NEXT Mortgage Events LLC, creator of NEXT women’s executive mortgage summit, has announced that it raised over $3,200 in personal donations for Girls Inc. of Chicago at the #NEXTSUMMER19 charity cocktail party raffle, held Aug. 26 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at The Gwen Hotel in Chicago.

Each NEXT event features a fundraiser cocktail party benefiting a local charity. Nearly 200 top mortgage executives attended the #NEXTSUMMER19 fundraiser. Raffle prizes were donated by DocMagic, the premier provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage services, Capsilon, a leading provider of mortgage automation software, and The Gwen Hotel in Chicago.  

Girls Inc. of Chicago delivers life-changing programs and experiences that inspire girls to be strong, smart and bold enough to overcome challenges.                                                                                                                        

About NEXT Mortgage Events LLC

In January 2018, NEXT Mortgage Events broke the mortgage industry’s unspoken barriers that limit women’s access to competitive intel and networking-based information exchange, when it introduced NEXT, the mortgage technology summit for women. NEXT is a two-day, tech-focused symposium based on lenders sharing competitive intel with other lending executives. A boutique gathering, each NEXT event is limited to 200 attendees, and targets a select group of decision making executives. Roughly 85-90% of lender attendees hold a title of VP or higher and approximately 85% of attendees are women. NEXT is held twice a year, in winter and summer. For more information visit NEXTMortgageNews.com, follow @NEXTmtgEvents or email info@NEXTmortgageEvents.com.

 

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TORRANCE, Calif., March 29, 2019— DocMagic, Inc., the premier provider of dynamic loan document preparation, automated regulatory compliance and comprehensive eMortgage solutions, announced that HousingWire has honored the company with the HW TECH100™ award for the sixth year in a row.

Since launching the Tech 100 awards in 2014, HousingWire has been recognizing the companies that continue to push the edge of innovation and move markets forward. From startups to technology giants, the award focuses on a wide range of organizations in the U.S. housing economy, spanning real estate, mortgage lending, mortgage servicing and investments.

HousingWire named DocMagic an early winner, crediting the company’s suite of interconnected digital solutions with streamlining communication, collaboration and the compliant exchange of data in real-time throughout the lending process. DocMagic’s solutions benefit entities across the digital mortgage ecosystem, enabling seamless connectivity between borrowers, originators, lenders, warehouse lenders, custodians, settlement providers, investors, servicers, GSEs and other relevant parties.

“Innovation is a core pillar across our organization. It’s important to us that we consistently deliver proven technology solutions that move the mortgage industry towards a paperless digital mortgage process,” says Jonathan Kearns, SVP of technology solutions at DocMagic.

“At the same time, we will always provide our customers with tools to keep them compliant. We believe our proven, single-source, end-to-end digital mortgage solution offer some of the most innovative and impactful technology within the housing industry and we’re thrilled that DocMagic’s ongoing efforts were recognized by HousingWire with a 2019 HW TECH100 award.”

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About DocMagic:

DocMagic, Inc. is the leading provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, compliance, eSign, eDelivery and eMortgage solutions for the mortgage industry. Founded in 1987 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 https://www.docmagic.com/.

About HousingWire:
HousingWire is the nation’s most influential industry news source covering the U.S. housing economy, spanning residential mortgage lending, servicing, investments, and real estate operations. The company’s news, commentary, magazine content, industry directories, and events give more than one million industry professionals each year the insight they need to make better, more informed business decisions. Winner of numerous awards, including a 2012 Eddie Award for national editorial excellence in the B2B Banking/Business/Finance category, HousingWire has been recognized for excellence in journalism by the Society of Business Editors and Writers, the American Society of Business Press Editors, the National Association of Real Estate Editors, and Trade Association Business Publications International. Learn more at https://www.housingwire.com/.