Session Description:
In today’s evolving landscape, leveraging agency technologies to enhance the mortgage lending processes is essential. Credit unions leading the charge in adopting agency technologies are establishing new standards for providing an unparalleled mortgage experience to their members. However, knowing where you need to go and understanding how to get there are two different things.
Join Anita Padilla-Fitzgerald, CEO of Take3Tech, and two experts from Fannie Mae — Dayne Harris, Enterprise Go-to-Market & Linda Wilson, Product Manager, for an enlightening discussion in this edition of ACUMA’s Inside Track webinar series. The panelists will delve deeply into ways integrating agency technologies simplifies operations, significantly reduces production costs, and elevates the quality assurance process, thereby enriching the overall member experience.
Key Discussion Topics will include the following:
- How agency technologies can help you outperform your competitors
- Ways that agency technologies can transform your team’s efficiency
- Understanding the difference between automated digital or document retrieval and digital validation
- Recognizing the difference between a pre-qualification and an upfront approval
- Understanding how Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriting Engine can optimize your underwriting process
- Learning how Fannie Mae’s Digital Validation Service works
Fannie Mae also will present its new income calculator for all income types.
This webinar is a must-attend session for credit union sales, underwriting, and processing managers, as well as executives aiming to leverage technology for operational excellence and superior member service. Register now for this opportunity to learn from the industry’s best about transforming your mortgage process through agency technologies.
- This session will be interactive so come with your questions.
- Open to anyone.
- Session will be recorded.
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Anita Padilla-Fitzgerald
CEO, Take3Tech
Anita Padilla-Fitzgerald is the Founder and CEO of three successful companies. She is a 40-year mortgage industry veteran who, at 18 years old, started her career as a mortgage company receptionist and grew from there. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she worked at various companies as a processor, closer, underwriter, Vice President of Operations then onto President/CEO of First City Financial Corp. In 1999, she founded MegaStar Financial Corp, a nationwide mortgage lender and servicer considered one of the top 100 mortgage origination companies in the United States. In 2010, she won the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. In 2023, Inman recognized her as one of the Best in Finance.
Dayne Harris
Enterprise Go-to-Market, Fannie Mae
Dayne facilitates production pilots and product research at Fannie Mae, helping to steward new innovation to market. This work focuses on making the mortgage process more efficient and customer-centric. His team’s goal is to ensure that new Fannie Mae offerings are market-ready, well-supported, and easy to adopt. He brings a background in growth infrastructure development and consulting, with a focus on business-to-business integration and complex sales processes.
Linda Wilson
Product Manager, Fannie Mae
Linda Wilson is a product manager at Fannie Mae with over 40 years of experience in residential mortgage lending, helping originators and servicers with automated decision-making. Specializing in data utilization and rules engines, Linda has used her experience to lead the creation of several innovative Fannie Mae products, including Custom DU, SMDU, DU transformation, and now Income Calculator. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Linda spent 20 years as a lender, with leadership roles in underwriting, delivery, and capital markets. Over the years, her innovative projects have been granted US patents and have enjoyed wide industry adoption. Linda may spend her days in southern New Jersey, but she gets up in the morning because she loves the possibility that her products are helping potential homebuyers. When she’s not at Fannie Mae, Linda loves traveling and cooking.
Take3Tech provides technologies that are simple to learn and quick to understand, all while empowering and educating employees and enhancing the member experience. Take3Tech has incorporated agency technologies that not only streamline the process, but lower cost to produce and assure confidence in quality.