Parker will be responsible for defining and executing the vision and direction of the company's product portfolio to rapidly grow sales, customer engagement and retention. He will also be responsible for designing new solutions for the industry's current challenges while positioning LoanLogics for the market's future demands.

As an approved Fannie Mae technology vendor, LoanLogics has built a seamless interface to Fannie Mae's EarlyCheck application that enables lenders to run EarlyCheck during the audit process, view the warnings and edits in the response, and correct loan data errors in the loan file. This new integration helps to assure all loan data is accurate and complete when delivered to Fannie Mae.

PenFed, a federal credit union with 1.7 million members and $23.5 billion in assets, chose LoanLogics to help them increase their capacity for growth in their correspondent lending business, according to Ben Sizemore, PenFed's senior vice president of mortgage transformation. By automating a substantial number of tasks and streamlining loan deliveries, Sizemore expects LoanHD will enable a significant expansion of the credit union's monthly loan volume as their business grows.

The LoanHD Investor Module automates every step in an investor’s loan acquisition workflow from initial loan pricing, creation and management of commitments all the way through locking, hedging loan funding and onboarding.

LoanLogics’ LoanHD platform provides automation for every step in the loan acquisition process – from initial seller application review to loan funding and servicing onboarding – and overcomes the challenges that stem from a traditionally manual and fragmented correspondent loan purchase workflow. With the capabilities of LoanHD, investors ensure the loans they are buying are high quality, compliant, and accurately priced, while sellers experience rapid turnaround for funding and enhanced availability of warehouse lines. Additionally, both parties gain value by finding and curing defects before loans are purchased.

Summit Funding, a national, purchase-focused lender, began using LoanLogics' technology in 2017. Prior to that, the company had been using a third party provider for post-close quality control. But Summit was looking for more robust, granular reporting, as well as a broader approach to QC, rather than simply a focus on compliance.

Planet Home Lending began using LoanLogics' technology at the beginning of 2017, and has since tripled its acquisition of correspondent loans, from roughly 300 loans per month to over 1000 loans per month. With the help of LoanLogics’ technology, Planet Home Lending also significantly reduced loan file review time from three to seven days at the beginning of 2017 to currently only 24-48 hours.

The Women of Influence program honors the significant contributions of women to both mortgage banking and real estate.

In an industry long known for resisting change, Guard is recognized for her leadership in helping lenders leverage automation and artificial intelligence technology to tackle record-high loan origination costs and meet investor demand for error-free loans.

Hall, 34, has worked for LoanLogics since 2009. He was recognized for helping clients "get the most out of their technology investment with LoanLogics and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their audit teams," HousingWire said. "He also supports clients who outsource QC to LoanLogics, working with them to optimize the process and help them understand the technology."

As part of the partnership, TMS will acquire LoanLogics’ non-core MSR consulting products and re-brand LoanLogics’ MarketLogics newsletter, which informs readers on technical, interest rate, volatility and yield spread outlooks for the mortgage industry. Les Parker, who oversaw MarketLogics and led LoanLogics’ industry relations and consulting efforts, will join TMS as its Managing Director. He will continue working closely with LoanLogics.

LoanLogics was recognized for its core product, the LoanHD^® loan quality platform, one of the most widely used enterprise technology platforms in the mortgage industry. LoanHD enables real-time, highly automated mortgage quality control and provides significant productivity lift as compared to manual internal audits, other technologies or third-party audit services.

"This year is shaping up as a year of volatility for the residential mortgage industry, with originations plunging as interest rates rise in response to $1 trillion reductions in asset purchases by central banks," says industry analyst and blogger Les Parker, CMB, who is senior vice president of industry relations and consulting at LoanLogics

Brian Fitzpatrick, CEO and former president of LoanLogics, will focus more of his time and energy on strategy, revenue growth, new clients, new products and continuing to improve customer satisfaction. As the CEO, Fitzpatrick is also LoanLogics' "chief culture officer" and will be responsible for ensuring the organization remains faithful to its values during a time of rapid growth.