Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Wisconsin-based information management company offers new loan servicing software designed around Making Home Affordable

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - (Business Wire) Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today its Loan Servicing Platform, with extensive loan modification and loss mitigation features, is fully compatible with new guidelines from the U.S. Treasury Department on home loan modifications. In fact, from its inception the Fiserv platform was the first loan servicing system that was fully capable of supporting the Making Home Affordable Modification program.

As part of the Obama administration’s initiative, the U.S. Department of the Treasury created the Home Affordable Modification Program (HMP) as part of the Making Home Affordable program. Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were named as the administrators of the HMP. Designed to help as many as three to four million distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure by modifying loans and monthly mortgage payments to an affordable level, the program provides clear and consistent guidelines that the mortgage industry must follow.
The Loan Servicing Platform is an example of Fiserv’s processing services core competency and utilizes integrated default management tools that allow servicers to track and study the loans being modified. With this knowledge, servicers can formulate best-option workout scenarios based on operational business rules while meeting HMP guidelines.

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