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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Marvin (Mickey) Goldwasser
Open Solutions Inc.
860.652.3153
mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com
Open Solutions Inc. and Mortgagebot Announce Partnership
-- Leading provider of technology solutions to banks
and credit unions partners with industry-leading, online and
direct-to-consumer loan-origination provider --
Mequon, Wis.
and Glastonbury, Conn., March 27, 2008 — Mequon, Wis.-based
Mortgagebot® LLC and
Glastonbury, Conn.-based Open Solutions, a leading provider of
integrated enabling technologies for financial service providers across
the United States, Canada and international markets, have
announced a strategic referral partnership. Under the
terms of the new referral agreement, Open Solutions will recommend
Mortgagebot’s consumer-direct, Web-based loan origination systems
to its clients and prospects.
This partnership provides Open Solutions’
clients with another option to choose from when looking for Web-based
software tools that can be used to take full advantage of the growing online
mortgage channel. Surveys show that in some market segments, as many as
one-fourth of all lenders are now originating more than half of their
loan volume online 1.
“Open Solutions is
a leader in providing technology solutions to the financial-services
industry,” said Mike Nicastro, Open Solutions SVP and chief
marketing officer. “Our strategic alliance with Mortgagebot
combined with our existing LOS product suite further expands our ability
to meet our clients’ growing need to connect with their mortgage
clients via the Internet. Mortgagebot’s award-winning technology is
cost-effective and easy to use. Plus, Mortgagebot products already enjoy
wide acceptance among our clients — nearly 50 of our Loan
Origination Systems’ (LOS) clients have already implemented
Mortgagebot’s PowerSite solution.”
Mortgagebot PowerSite® is the
industry’s leading solution set for consumer-direct, Internet-based
loan origination, currently automating the mortgage-application process
for over 750 lenders from coast to coast—including one-third of America’s top 100 commercial banks, and nearly half of America’s top 100 savings
institutions and top 100 credit unions. In addition, many of the credit
unions over $100 million that have licensed an Open Solutions
core-processing system, are already Mortgagebot clients.
Mortgagebot’s product
family is a fully configurable, private-labeled solution set that
automates the mortgage application process. The PowerSite product serves
as a lender’s mortgage Web site, taking applications directly from
consumers “24/7/365,” and the PowerSite Pro system enables
loan officers to take applications by phone, in the branch or with a
laptop computer from a remote location. With
both products, Mortgagebot’s award-winning, intelligent
functionality enables borrowers to complete an application, get
pre-approved and receive full disclosures in 20 minutes or less. And
because PowerSite products are deployed over the Internet, there is no PC
software for lenders to install and maintain.
As a result of their
flexibility and scalability, PowerSite products enable lenders to take
mortgage applications throughout the enterprise at every point of sale:
directly from consumers over the Internet, in the branch, through the
call center or from remote locations via laptop PCs.
The new alliance will give Open Solutions’
clients an option to provide their borrowers with the convenience of a
direct-to-consumer mortgage application system. PowerSite’s unique
mortgage application process enables borrowers to complete mortgage
applications that require no follow-up, which means improved lender
efficiency and productivity.
Open Solutions’ LOS clients will also gain
access to proven, automated integration tools that save time and money by
enabling loan data collected by PowerSite to be automatically transferred
to the Sound Mortgage Management System.
Two examples of the Open Solutions/Sound Mortgage
Management System clients who already benefit from Mortgagebot PowerSite
are The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank (Lowell, Mass.) and America’s First Federal Credit Union (Birmingham, Ala).
“Mortgagebot PowerSite enhances our customer
service,” said Helen Hamel, vice president, The Lowell Five Cent
Savings Bank, a mutual savings bank with 13 branches and
assets of more than $680 million. “We have a strong community
presence—and implementing PowerSite with our Open Solutions
application has not only modernized and streamlined our processes, it has
enabled us to better serve our customers. Customers have even told us
that having an online loan application helped them decide to apply with
our bank.”
America’s First
Federal Credit Union is a 17-branch, full-service credit union with $811
million in assets. Shirley Lochamy, vice president of Mortgage Lending, America’s First said, “We use Open Solutions and PowerSite for all of
our loan origination channels: consumer-direct on the Web, in the
branches and through our call center. PowerSite enables our members to
apply for a mortgage at their convenience. Now, instead of giving a
borrower a paper application and asking them to bring it back, we can
lock in a rate and easily complete the application while the borrower is
interested.”
“We’re delighted to form a marketing
alliance with Open Solutions,” said Mortgagebot Chief Marketing
Officer Dan Welbaum; “Especially so in light of the time-saving
integration that PowerSite enjoys with the
Sound Mortgage Management System, and the fact that Open Solutions and
Mortgagebot already share so many joint clients. We’re
pleased to be an Open Solutions’ recommended partner, and we look
forward to collaborating more closely with joint referrals, at trade
shows and in the market.”
About Open Solutions Inc.
Open Solutions Inc.® is a leading provider of
integrated enabling technologies for financial service providers in the United States, Canada and internationally. Open Solutions Inc. offers a fully-featured
strategic information management product platform that integrates core
data processing applications built on a single, centralized Oracle
relational database, with Internet banking, cash management, CRM/business
intelligence, financial accounting and management tools, profitability
tools, wealth management, imaging, digital documents, interactive voice
response, network services, HSAs, payments and loan origination
solutions. Open Solutions’ full suite of products and services
allows banks, thrifts, credit unions and financial services providers in
the United States, Canada and internationally to better compete in
today’s aggressive financial services marketplace, and expand and
tap their trusted financial relationships, client affinity, community
presence and personalized service.
For more information about Open Solutions or its financial
product line, contact Mickey Goldwasser by email at mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com
or by phone at 860.652.3153 or via fax at 860.652.3156. Visit Open
Solutions’ Internet site at www.opensolutions.com.
About
Mortgagebot
Mortgagebot
LLC (www.Mortgagebot.com) is the
industry-leading, Inc. 500 company that provides PowerSite, the
direct-to-consumer, Web-based loan-origination solution set that can be
deployed enterprise-wide. Mortgagebot blends extensive mortgage
experience with leading-edge “software-as-a-service” (SaaS)
technology to create robust, scalable, and affordable Web sites for more
than 750 mortgage lenders nationwide. And with the launch of its
mortgage-shopping Web site, Mortgage Marvel® (www.MortgageMarvel.com),
Mortgagebot has created a revolutionary, easy-to-use way for borrowers to
instantly obtain and compare accurate, low mortgage rates—from
hundreds of lenders—without revealing any personal data.
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1
“Benchmarks 2007: Trends, Analysis, Practices”, by
Mortgagebot LLC. Published by Mortgagebot LLC. (Mequon, Wis.); June 2007.
© 2007 by Mortgagebot LLC.
Mortgagebot, Mortgagebot PowerSite,
and Mortgage Marvel are registered trademarks of Mortgagebot LLC. Open
Solutions Inc. is a registered trademark and Sound
Mortgage Management System is a trademark of Open Solutions Inc.
Other products and/or services are the property of their respective
owners.
Editor’s
Note: The correct usage of the company name, Open
Solutions Inc., is either referring to it as Open Solutions Inc. or Open
Solutions. Open Solutions no longer uses the acronym of OSI to refer to
the company.
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