Five Reasons for Doing a HMDA Scrub

Five Reasons for Doing a HMDA Scrub

With only a few months left before your March 1 filing, now is a good time to plan the year-end HMDA scrub. The point of a HMDA Scrub is to compare specific data in the loan application register (LAR) to loan origination source systems (LOS) or physical loan...

What is a Low Denial Rate Really Telling You?

Here’s an observation worth considering: A low denial rate irrespective of prohibited bases does not in itself ensure that denial disparities by prohibited bases will disappear.  In fact, that low denial rate could be a warning that other issues exist, and if the...