Optimal Blue: Revolutionizing Capital Markets with AI (Sponsored Content)
At Optimal Blue, our commitment to value-driven innovation drives us to embrace the power of AI to continue transforming the capital markets landscape. As we build solutions harnessing AI’s power, our strategy focuses on two key objectives: solving real-world problems for our clients and ensuring these AI tools offer tangible benefits without additional costs.
In the fast-paced mortgage industry, lenders face the constant challenge of managing complex data and making swift, informed decisions to maximize profitability. Through direct engagement with our thousands of clients, Optimal Blue has begun delivering AI capabilities built for secondary-market-specific use cases. We’ve purposely designed generative AI to solve the direct challenges mortgage lenders face and help lenders maximize profitability on every loan transaction.
The AI tools offered in our CompassEdge hedging and loan trading platform – Profitability Assistant, Projections Assistant, and Trade Assistant – all empower lenders to navigate the complexities of the market with unprecedented ease and accuracy. Whether it’s summarizing the key drivers behind profitability, forecasting future pipeline performance, or optimizing hedge strategies, these AI assistants are indispensable assets for housing industry professionals.
Profitability Assistant: Simplifying Complex Data Analysis for the C-Suite
Each day, capital markets professionals spend countless hours analyzing data to relay profitability information to executives. This process can be time-consuming and prone to errors. By leveraging generative AI, Profitability Assistant removes the need for lengthy manual analyses and enables mortgage professionals to make informed decisions quickly. It generates a succinct summary of the top drivers that caused a gain or loss of profitability in a pipeline, including new locks, fallout, loan sales, bulk AOT, and more. Specifically designed for CFOs and other members of a lender’s executive team, these summaries promote greater transparency between secondary and the C-suite. Profitability Assistant saves lenders time and enhances the accuracy of financial reporting, directly impacting the customer’s bottom line.
Projections Assistant: Accurate Forecasting Made Easy
Understanding future pipeline profitability is imperative for strategic planning regardless of market conditions. Recognizing this necessity, Optimal Blue built the AI-powered Projections Assistant to predict the real-time impact of various factors on the risk profile of a hedged mortgage pipeline, including originations, fallout, loan sales, and more. By analyzing historical data and recent position activity, this AI tool provides reliable predictions, streamlines the forecasting process, minimizes human biases, and reduces the reliance on tedious manual research. Projections Assistant automates complex calculations to deliver extremely granular projections for position management. For lenders, this means more accurate and timely insights into future performance, allowing for more effective risk management and strategic decision-making.
Trade Assistant: Optimizing Hedge Effectiveness
In an effort to simplify complex trading decisions, Trade Assistant reduces the guesswork that goes into hedge selection, a process typically requiring an experienced capital markets professional. This AI tool suggests optimal trading strategies based on current market conditions, combining machine learning and generative AI to recommend trades that enhance trading efficiency and effectiveness. With one click, users receive data-driven recommendations for sells, buys, rolls, uneven rolls, and swaps, all aligned with their specific hedge policy. For lenders, this translates to more effective hedging strategies, reduced costs, and, ultimately, maximized profitability.
Real-World Impact and Client Benefits
Designed with secondary marketing managers in mind, the AI assistants in CompassEdge address critical industry needs, helping lenders achieve more with less. All three AI assistants are available to CompassEdge users for no additional fee. These AI tools automate complex tasks and provide actionable insights, allowing lenders to focus on higher-level strategic planning and decision-making, where their influence can be most impactful, rather than getting bogged down in manual analysis.
With rising origination costs, lenders are under pressure to remain profitable in a highly competitive market. The traditional approach of adding more systems to address individual and specific needs has often resulted in data silos and inefficiencies. At Optimal Blue, we believe the solution lies in creating a cohesive technology ecosystem where data flows seamlessly, enabling lenders to make informed decisions quickly and accurately to optimize their competitive advantage in any market dynamics.
—
Optimal Blue effectively bridges the primary and secondary mortgage markets to deliver the industry’s only end-to-end capital markets platform. The company helps lenders of all sizes and scopes maximize profitability and operate efficiently so they can help American borrowers achieve the dream of homeownership. Through innovative technology, a network of interconnectivity, rich data insights, and expertise gathered over more than 20 years, Optimal Blue is an experienced partner that, in any market environment, allows lenders to optimize their advantage from pricing accuracy to margin protection, and every step in between. To learn more, visit OptimalBlue.com.
(Sponsored content includes material submitted independently of the Mortgage Bankers Association and MBA NewsLink and does not connote an MBA endorsement of a specific company, product or service. For more information about sponsored content opportunities, contact Bill Farmakis at bill@jlfarmakis.com or 203/834-8832.)
