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Are Your Borrower Calls Compliant With the New TCPA Ruling?

When was the last time you reviewed your borrower communication practices? As technology options continue to expand, so follows oversight. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991, created to address increasing telemarketing practices...

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What’s Your Plan for Foreclosure Prevention?

Don’t be deluded by ongoing reports of decreasing delinquency and foreclosure. As is often the case, it depends on which numbers you’re watching....

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CFPB Proposes Automation To Reduce Consumer Friction

What does the CFPB’s recent initiative to curate mortgage products and assist homeowners have to do with mortgage servicing? More than you think....

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Can Servicers Rise to the Latest Challenges?

What’s next on the mortgage horizon? Lenders are feeling the pinch as interest rates make an uphill trek. On a broader scale, foreclosure activity...

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Should Servicers Be Worried About the CFPB's Key Observations?

The industry is migrating from forbearance to foreclosure, and mortgage servicers are seeing another change in the makeup of their default servicing...

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How Do Servicers Outpace Rising Foreclosure Activity With Mounting Oversight?

Have you seen the latest foreclosure stats? The picture they paint isn’t a pretty one. The June 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows an increase...

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Solutions to 5 Key Observations in the Latest CFPB Response Metrics Report

Not all servicers are alike, whether it’s size, portfolio composition, delinquency rates, or other criteria. Despite these disparities, the CFPB is...

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A Storm is Coming. Is Your Servicing Organization Ready?

Correction, the title should read 19 storms are coming. At least that’s the prediction released last month by Colorado State University. The Atlantic...

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How to Reduce Administrative Burden in Times of High Nursing Turnover

Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers have quit their jobs during the pandemic, with nursing being hit hardest. As evidenced in the Morning Consult Study,...

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As Foreclosure Moratoria Expire, Are You Managing Uncertainty With Seamless Servicing?

We’ve just passed the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 foreclosure moratoria and are quickly rounding the corner on the first quarter of 2022. Where...

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How Servicers Can Simplify the Shifting of Borrowers Out of Forbearance

The latest numbers reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association illustrate the volatility that remains in forbearance volume for servicers. As of...

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How to Accelerate Your Mortgage Servicing Efforts with Seamless Servicing

Are you ready to put 2021 behind you? Mortgage servicers continue to try to keep up as their segment of the business is inundated by pandemic...

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How to Mitigate the Possibility of Consent Orders with Modern Automation

Servicing institutions are well aware of the need to stay out in front of agency scrutiny, examinations, and of course consent orders. But what...

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How is Your Mortgage Servicing Shop Holding Up Under Unrelenting Pressure?

Exhausted by change? Every company, mortgage-based or otherwise, is experiencing a shift in automation as an essential part of business. The timing...

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Technology-enabled OSCE

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Paper OSCEs in a Digital World: What Are You Missing?

In the healthcare industry, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a cornerstone assessment method that evaluates the student...

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How the Pandemic Influence is Creating a New Perspective on Servicing Automation

The mortgage industry, financial services, and FinTech arenas have all received a boost from technology during struggles to provide relief under...

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Automated Workflow

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Automated Workflow - Elevate the Power with Shared Data

Workflow is defined as a systemic distribution of tasks, information, and documents to users or groups for action based on a predefined set of...

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Loss Mitigation

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Do You Have the Right Loss Mitigation Partner for COVID-19?

It is hard to imagine that we are approaching the three-month mark for working under COVID-19. Keeping up with industry change as we continue to...

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customer centric servicing

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Do You Know What the New Decade Holds for Customer-Centric Servicing?

Clarifire recently released its white paper on the current approach to customer-centric servicing and the corresponding key drivers as we head into a...

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Waste Reduction in Healthcare

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The Future of Waste Reduction in Healthcare

So what does reducing waste in healthcare mean? Healthcare waste is defined as time, dollars, and services that do not add value - and can sometimes...

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congestive heart failure readmissions

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How to Curb Rising Readmission Rates

What do you do when the standard approach to readmission reductions isn’t moving the dial on penalties? Your organization has implemented...

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mobile technology

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It’s Time to Bring Mobile Access to Your Servicing Back Office

Today’s customers demand far more than an automated process from their mortgage bank or servicer. As servicers strive to improve overall efficiency...

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preparing nurses for the digital age of healthcare

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Digital Age of Healthcare & Student Education: Filling the Gap

Those involved in healthcare today are well aware the industry has shifted from volume-based to consumer-driven, value-based care, with a significant...

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Healthy work environments

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Promoting Healthy Work Environments Using Evidence Based Practices

For anyone who attended the FONE 2019 Educational Conference, it was evident the focus was promoting healthy work environments using evidence-based...

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Hospital-Acquired Conditions and Infections

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The Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Conditions

Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs) and infections are illnesses or complications that were not present when the patient was admitted to the...

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