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Using Technology to Assist Homeowners

DigitalIn a new Aspen Grove Solutions [1] white paper, “Digital Borrower Engagement….A Critical Tool for the Post-Forbearance Tidal Wave,” the authors model the impact of COVID-19 on default servicing volumes over the next 18 months or more and discuss how digital, user-friendly engagement with the borrower can help ameliorate the three major challenges servicers will face, including cost control, volume of loans, and compliance & risk. The paper considers how the crisis is a catalyst to digitize Life of Loan services, which will help build loyalty, not just through this crisis, but into the future, enabling a better outcome for all stakeholders.

As Aspen Grove notes, everything in this crisis will happen in a much more compressed time period than the 2008 crisis. According to the white paper, "digital, user-friendly engagement with the borrower offers the only solution that can help manage the forbearance resolution and loss mitigation processes with a high level of quality and consistency, help keep borrowers informed of options, frequently communicate with worried borrowers to reassure them, and feed into backend technology solutions that are designed to move the volume through the pipe all at once without letting borrowers fall through the cracks."

"Call centers and prepared scripts will be unable to handle the number of borrowers emerging from forbearance in the condensed time frame that results directly from the concentrated wave of borrowers entering forbearance," says Aspen Grove. "Hiring and training large call center staffs will prove risky and challenging at best"

With digitization in place, Aspen Grove notes that borrower engagement platforms will enable banks and servicers to extend services they can offer to their borrower customers, and will help build loyalty and engagement not just through this crisis but into the future.

Read Aspen Grove's complete whitepaper here. [2]