Mortgage Acronyms
What’s in a DB Number?
Who’s Who?
Tools of the Trade
Potpourri
100

LTV

What is Loan to Value?

100

364 or 225

What is Loan Number?

100

They assist borrowers with the loan application process

Who are Loan Officers?

100

The Empire Strikes Back or The Structured Query Language

What is SQL pronounced “sequel”?

100

ODS, CDM, KDD, EDW

What are databases?

200

WAC

What is Weighted Average Coupon?

200
2 or 2134

What is Loan Amount?

200

They assess a borrower’s finances and the risk to extend a loan

Who are Underwritters?

200

A superior program with rows and columns 

What is MS Excel?

200

Mulder’s or MLA’s bailiwick

What are the “X-Files”?

300

FICO

What is Fair Isaac Corporation?

300

14 or 359

What is Property State?

300
Helpful group that’s not IT

Who is the ASK Desk?

300

Datatrac, Encompass, Empower

What are Loan Origination Systems (“LOS”)?

300

A pitcher’s asset or a type of mortgage

What is an ARM?

400

HMDA

What is the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act?

400

3142 or 12

What is Application Date?

400

They do the work no one else wants to do

Who is Mortgage Lending Analytics (“MLA”)?

400

The bane of our existence

What is Motivity?

400

A “dead pledge”

What is a mortgage?

500

QM

What is Qualified Mortgage?

500

1401 OR 32506

What is Loan Program?

500

EVP of MLD

Who is Greg Austin?

500

A poison or a cure

What is alcohol?

500

TRID Document or Musical Media

What is a CD?