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Article | March 04, 2020

How to Keep the Focus on Loan Quality in The Face of Regulatory Change

Expert Perspectives: ARMCO’s Director of Compliance, Kacey Olson

• Importance of Fannie Mae and FHA taxonomies.
• How to best manage loan quality leveraging these taxonomies.
• How to best prepare for HMDA changes

Article | March 02, 2020

2020 HW Tech100 Mortgage winner: ARMCO

by HousingWire staff

ACES Audit Technology expedites turn times, increases reliability and imparts standardization, accountability and auditability in virtually any quality control process. It can be used across departments and silos, regardless of how nuanced the requirements or regulations are. ARMCO consolidated QC for mortgage and consumer lending into one central unit and reduced monthly reports for lenders from eight manually compiled reports to one interactive report.

Conference | March 02, 2020

CBA Live Conference: March 23-25, 2020

ARMCO will be exhibiting at the CBA Live Conference March 23-25, 2020 in San Diego, CA. We'd love to meet with you and discuss your Consumer Lending quality control & compliance goals.

February 27, 2020

ARMCO Enhances ACES IQ with Addition of HMDA Questionnaires

DENVER, Colo., February 27, 2020—ACES Risk Management (ARMCO), the leading provider of enterprise financial risk mitigation solutions, announced today it has added questionnaires related to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) to the ACES Intelligent Questionnaire (ACES IQ) functionality contained within the ACES Audit Technology^TM system. With this set of HMDA-specific questions, ACES users can quickly and easily conduct quality control on their HMDA data before reporting this data to their assigned federal HMDA regulator.

Article | February 18, 2020

The Biggest Hurdles Facing Servicing Quality Control and How to Rise Above it

Expert Perspectives: ARMCO’s EVP of Operations, Sharon Reichhardt

• Perennial quality control issues that mortgage servicers are continuously trying to address.
• How disaster planning impacts servicing qc.
• How servicers can use technology to stay on top of QC.

Press release | January 30, 2020

ARMCO Reports Strong 2019, Eyes Further Growth and Expansion in 2020

DENVER, Colo., January 30, 2020— After a remarkable 2019, ACES Risk Management (ARMCO), the leading provider of enterprise financial risk mitigation solutions, is looking ahead to 2020 for what promises to be an outstanding year. In addition to adding several lenders to its growing roster of clients – including Bay Equity Loans, KWIK Mortgage, The KLR Group and multiple top-25 mortgage companies – ARMCO also achieved a company record in 2019 of one million audits conducted in a single year in its flagship audit platform ACES Audit Technology^TM.

Conference | January 16, 2020

MBA's Servicing Conference: February 23-26, 2020

ARMCO will be exhibiting at the MBA's Servicing Conference February 23-26, 2020 in Orlando, FL. We'd love to meet with you and discuss your servicing quality control goals and how ARMCO can help you reach your fullest potential.

Article | December 20, 2019

Defect Rate For Closed Mortgages Continued to Fall in Q2

By Patrick Barnard - December 20, 2019

The rate of critical defects in closed mortgages dropped to 1.72% of all loans sampled for ARMCO’s second quarter Mortgage QC Trends Report.

Press release | December 19, 2019

Latest ARMCO QC Trends Report Draws Correlation Between Lenders’ Profitability and Adaptability to Market

Denver, CO., Dec. 19, 2019 — ACES Risk Management (ARMCO), the leading provider of enterprise financial risk management solutions, announced the release of the quarterly ARMCO Mortgage QC Trends Report. The latest report covers second quarter (Q2) 2019 and provides loan quality findings for mortgages reviewed by ACES Audit Technology™.

Article | December 19, 2019

Better volume, profits reduce critical defects in mortgage files

By Brad Finkelstein - December 19, 2019

The critical defect rate for closed mortgage loans continued its decline in the second quarter, as lenders benefited from increased loan volume and profitability, an Aces Risk Management study found.

For the first time since the third quarter of 2016, the critical defect rate dropped for two consecutive quarters. Higher volume and profits factor in, providing less incentive for some lenders to cut corners to keep production up.