Systems
Flow of a Loan
Security/Fraud
Abbreviations
Encompass Navigation
100

The system is what we use to communicate to coworkers.

What is TEAMs?

100

This individual is responsible for taking the loan application. Either via sending the borrower a link or completing the application on behalf of the borrower.

What is a Loan Officer?

100

The fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

What is phishing?

100

CTC

What is Clear to Close?

100

Alerts show as this color in Encompass.

What is red?

200

The Disclosure department must send the Disclosure package to the borrower in this number of days from a full loan application being taken.

What is three days?

200

This individual is responsible for contacting the borrower and obtaining any needed borrower documents for the transaction and fulfilling underwriting conditions from the underwriting approval.

What is a Processor?

200

This report can be found on Equity Zone and is filled out when you believe there is legitimate fraud occurring with a loan file.

What is the SAR (Suspicious Activity Report)?

200

LTV

What is Loan to Value?

200

Loans in Encompass are grouped together in different views that are called this name. This will show all loans that are allocated to a certain processor or type of view.

What is a Pipeline?

300

This disclosure signifies that the borrower is allowing the lender to request documents on their behalf (such as HOI, VOE, etc.).

What is a signed borrower cert and authorization?

300

This is the first stage in the loan process that a PSS member will begin to assist with ordering third party items (such as title work, appraisal, etc.)

What is Order All?

300

This type of fraud is defined as the misrepresentation or omission of the applicant’s intended occupancy of the home.

What is Occupancy Fraud?

300

EMD

What is Earnest Money Deposit?

300

This color of loan indicates that the loan has been withdrawn by the loan officer.

What is a pink loan?

400

This form is seen in both VA and FHA disclosures and allows the borrower to remove themselves from the loan contract if the home they are purchasing is appraised at a lower value than what the seller is selling it for.

What is an Amendatory Clause or Escape Clause?

400

This individual is responsible for wiring the funds to the title company at the time of the loan closing.

What is Accounting?

400

This individual is who you notify if you believe you have a legitimate case of fraud.

What is the compliance officer?

400

REO

What is Real Estate Owned?

400

This color of loan indicates that the loan is convention and needs AUS to be ran on it.

What is a purple loan?

500

This form gives us the authority to request a transcript of the borrower's tax returns. We use this form to verify there is no form of fraud in the application and to verify that tax returns provided to us were what was actually filed with the IRS. 

What is the 4506-C form?

500

This department is the last department to touch the loan file and conduct their review.

What is the Quality Control department?

500

80% of fraud losses come from the 20% of reported fraud in this category.

What is Fraud for Profit?

500

SFR

What is Single Family Residence?

500

This represents the different phases of the loan process. Once a team member finishes one it moves the loan to the next phase of the process.

What is a Milestone?

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