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Submitted By
Name: MOHIT KUMAR
Roll No: PGFA1233
SUBMITTED TO: Dr. Ritika Gugnani
Declaration
I hereby declare that the On Job Training Report entitled "American Housing Mortgage
Market is an authentic record of my own report as a part of my role in the organization from
26th December, 2013 to 28th Feb, 2014 for the award of degree of PGDM (Post Graduate
Diploma in Management), Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida under the guidance of Dr.
Ritika Gugnani.
Mohit Kumar
Date: 31/03/2014
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PGFA1233
Acknowledgement
A fruitful work is incomplete without paying a word of thanks to all the people who are
directly or indirectly involved in its completion. So I would like to thank my mentor Mr. Ravi
Joya for guiding me through my on the job report.
I would like to thank my faculty mentor Dr. Ritika Gugnani (Faculty JIM, Noida), for guiding
me to complete this project.
I would like to thank a lot to all the staff of XL Dynamics because working with them is just
like a fun and I am learning a lot of things from them.
Mohit Kumar
PGFA1233
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Table of Contents
Declaration ................................................................................................................ ii
Acknowledgement ................................................................................................... iii
Chapter-1 ....................................................................................................................5
Company Description ................................................................................................5
Chapter-2 ..................................................................................................................16
Job Description ........................................................................................................16
Chapter-3 ..................................................................................................................25
Analysis of the Job Done .........................................................................................25
Chapter-4 ..................................................................................................................27
Learning Outcomes ..................................................................................................27
Chapter-5 ..................................................................................................................29
Suggestions and Recommendations.........................................................................29
Bibliography.............................................................................................................30
Chapter-1
Company Description
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. (a part of SWMC or Sun West Mortgage Company) is a private
corporation and is headquartered in Cerritos; CA. XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. was founded in
the year 1992 and incorporated in the year 1998. XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.'s team, which
consists of professionals with Mortgage Banking experience and strong technical knowledge,
laid the foundation for a revolutionary organization - one that has been designed by Mortgage
Bankers for Mortgage Bankers. XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd., India started operations in 2002
with its wholly owned office located in Mumbai. XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. India provides an
end-to-end solution to the Mortgage Industry to all our clients, from loan processing through
secondary market portfolio management. Our web-based loan origination and servicing systems
is one of the most advanced technology platforms in the industry. Our technology platform has
been fully developed in house and is fully customizable, secure, scalable and reliable.
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd., India conforms to international standards to foster an efficient and
contemporary work environment. XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd., India is a customized blend of
onshore and offshore capabilities. These are tailored and coordinated to meet clients' specific
business goals while ensuring that the right resources and skills are available at desired locations.
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.'s implementation and delivery model leverages capacity,
capabilities, and competencies across geographies to achieve optimal customer satisfaction.
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. - The Platform for Today - The Pathway to Tomorrow
LOCATION
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. is located in the planned satellite township of Mumbai, Navi
Mumbai, at Millennium Business Park. Millennium Business Park (MBP) is a government
owned IT Park and is one of the biggest industrial hubs in the Navi Mumbai Area.
Millennium Business Park is located in the suburb of Mahape. This is located near Ghansoli
Railway station on the Thane - Vashi Railway on the Harbor route of Mumbai.
Millennium Business Park (MBP) is well connected to Thane, Kalyan, Vashi, Panvel and other
Mumbai suburbs. The closest railway station to Mahape is Ghansoli.
SERVICES
XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. provides end-to-end solutions to the US Mortgage Banking
Industry. Following are the services offered by XL Dynamics(a) IT solutions to the Mortgage Industry with its cutting-edge Loan Origination Technology;
(b) Operational Support to Mortgage Industry Brokers, Lenders, Servicers and Investors;
(c) Expert analysis and risk assessment of complex financial products;
(d) Execution of complex trades in the capital markets;
(e) Trading and hedging strategy and support;
(f) Financial accounting services;
(g) Regulatory compliance and audit services;
(h) Quality Control services and
(i) Securitization of loan instruments.
FUNCTIONS
1. Pre-Risk Analysis
2. Risk Analysis Quality Control
3. Hedging Analysis
4. Collateral Security Instruments Review and Approval
5. Documents Preparation
6. Funding Audit & Process QC
7. Loan Boarding
8. Loan File Coordination
9. Loan File Coordination Quality Control
10. Loan Settlement Analysis and Quality Control
11. Servicing Quality Control
12. Secondary Market
13. Broker Approval and Support
14. Shipping Support
Pre-Risk Analysis
The Pre-Risk Analysis Team assesses the risk associated with complex financial products being
offered to customers by the client by comparing the information in the system with the loan
documents submitted by the client. They analyze documents such as property title reports,
appraisals, income and asset statements, etc. They provide the Risk Analysis Team a summary of
their findings at the client's location in US. This helps the clients to make a better credit decision.
Hedging Analysis
Hedging Review Team assists the Capital Markets team in managing the financial risk in the
company's mortgage originations. The team performs the daily audits of the locked pipeline to
ensure only active loans are hedged for the financial risk and the sales reporting to the hedging
vendor.
Documents Preparation
The document preparation team ensures that accurate loan data is entered in the document
preparation software, by ensuring the Borrower and Property information is accurate. They
update the fees in the system match the Settlement Statement and ensure all other data in the
Document Preparation software does not have any clerical errors. They prepare packages that
need to be sent for attorney approval whenever necessary.
Loan Boarding
The Loan Boarding department at XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. ensures that loans are accurately
set up into the ERP systems of our clients by thoroughly reviewing the loan files submitted.
After accurately entering the Loan Information in the ERP system, certain important compliance
verifications are done to ensure the loan was originated in compliance and may be submitted for
approval.
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The Loan Settlement Analysis and Quality Control Function at XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.
ensure that the Closing Agent or Attorney has disbursed funds received from the Client as per the
Settlement Statement. This involves reviewing the Settlement Statement prepared by the Closing
Agent or Attorney and verifying all fees charged. If non- allowable fees are found, these are
recommended to the Funding Team in the US to request a refund from the service provider.
Secondary Market
This team studies the secondary market and prepares the competitive daily rate sheets for clients
and is also responsible for locking the interest rate for lenders and its affiliated clients in the ERP
system. This is done through thorough analysis of secondary market where mortgages are bought
and sold and preparing competitive rate sheets as per the market fluctuation in timely manner
and distributing the updated rate sheets to the client and client's affiliates. They publish the
updated rate sheets in timely manner to client's website whenever there is any change in the
market and integrating the updated rate sheet in the ERP systems to ensure that the most recent
and updated rates are available to the client and client's affiliate..
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perform Annual review and the recertification requests and send them to the Broker Company.
They also facilitate User ID Creation / Deletion of Ids.
Shipping Support
The shipping support Team is responsible for the verification of the loan documents as per the
investor requirement, preparing the document packages and sending them to US Shipping Team
in US which will be further sent to the investors.
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Pronounced as heckum). In this loan borrowers remain title holders of home while benefitting
from the equity in their home. From loan calculator we can estimate how much mortgage you
may be able to obtain through a Reverse Mortgage.
Wholesale Lending
Company is an FHA, VA and USDA approved full service mortgage banker in business since
1980. With a fully automated, totally integrated, and internet-based system (SunSoft) to carry out
all lending functions, SWMC's technology empowers its clients with up-to-the-minute status on
their loans at anytime from anywhere through the internet. SWMC is an approved FHLMC,
FNMA, GNMA, HUD, and VA lender. It is also an approved HUD Reverse Mortgage
Lender/Servicer. It offers a wide range of jumbo and conventional loan products.
Correspondent Lending
Company is an FHA and VA approved full service mortgage banker. It is also an approved HUD
Reverse Mortgage Lender/Servicer. It offers correspondent customers a complete range of
mortgage products including jumbo and conventional loan products that satisfy the demands of
hard-to-win customers and face of a fiercely competitive mortgage market. Correspondent
Lending Program is built around the belief that customer service is vitally important to success in
the secondary market. If you're not receiving the attention and response times you deserve from
your current investors, you should experience what our lenders have come to expect:
A. Personalized service
B. Operational Support (Outsource services to us)
C. Accessible staff
D. Fast funding
E. A commitment to technology
F. Consistent & aggressive pricing on the products you need the most
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Chapter-2
Job Description
COMPANY: XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.
POSITION: Pre-underwriter
TEAM: Pre-Underwriting
To verify income used to qualify the borrower for the mortgage is stable.
To verify two year income history of the borrower.
To detect employment gap.
To analyze the future trend of income.
To verify that income documents are within SWMC guidelines and follows
HUD guidelines.
To verify and validate source of income: business income, rental income,
pension income or social security income.
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Automated underwriting:
Fanie Mae and Freddie Mac are the two largest companies that purchase mortgages
from other lenders in the United States. Many lenders will underwrite their files
according to their guidelines, but to ensure the eligibility to be purchased by
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, underwriters will utilize what is called automated
underwriting. This is a tool available to lenders to provide recommendations on the
risk of a loan and borrower and it provides the amount of documentation needed to
verify the risk.
It is important to remember that the approval and feedback is subject to the
underwriter's review. It is also the responsibility of the underwriter to evaluate the
aspects of the loan that is beyond the scope of automated underwriting. In short, it
is the underwriter that approves the loan, not the automated underwriting.
On the other hand, automated underwriting has streamlined the mortgage process
by providing analysis of credit and loan terms in minutes rather than days. For
borrowers it reduces the amount of documentation needed and may even require no
documentation of employment, income, assets or even value of the property.
Automated underwriting tailors the amount of necessary documentation in
proportion to the risk of the loan.
Approval decisions:
After reviewing all aspects of the loan, it is up to the underwriter to assess the risk
of the loan as a whole. Each borrower and each loan is unique and many borrowers
may not fit every guideline. However, certain aspects of the loan may compensate
for the lack in other areas. For an example, the risk of high LTVs can be offset by
the presence of a large amount of assets. Low LTVs can offset the fact that the
borrower has a high debt to income ratio and excellent credit can overcome the
lack of assets.
In addition to compensating factors, there is a concept known as layering of risk.
For an example, if the property is a high rise condo, occupied as an investment,
with a high LTV and a borrower who is self-employed, the cumulative effect of all
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Income documents:
W2 Form
The form that an employer must send to an employee and the IRS at the end of the
year. The W-2 form reports an employee's annual wages and the amount of taxes
withheld from his or her paycheck.
Every employer engaged in a trade or business who pays remuneration, including
noncash payments of $600 or more for the year (all amounts if any income, social
security, or Medicare tax was withheld) for services performed by an employee
must file a Form W-2 for each employee (even if the employee is related to the
employer) from whom:
Income, social security, or Medicare tax was withheld. Income tax would have
been withheld if the employee had claimed no more than one withholding
allowance or had not claimed exemption from withholding on Form W-4,
Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate.
1040 Form
The standard Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form that individuals uses to file their
annual income tax returns. The form contains sections that require taxpayers to
disclose their financial income status for the year in order to ascertain whether
additional taxes are owed or whether the taxpayer is due for a tax refund. 1040
forms
need
to
be
filed
with
the
IRS
by
April
15.
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Pay stub
A pay stub or paystub is a document that an employee receives as a notice that the
direct deposit transaction has gone through. It is a piece of paper that is given to an
employee with each paycheck and that shows the amount of money that the
employee earned and the amount that was removed for taxes, insurance costs, etc
Tax transcripts
A tax return transcript shows most line items from your tax return (Form 1040,
1040A or 1040EZ) as it was originally filed, including any accompanying forms
and schedules. In most cases, your transcript includes all the information a lender
or government agency needs. It does not show any changes you, your
representative or we made after you filed. Ask your financial institution to be sure
a return transcript will meet their requirements. The tax return transcript is
generally available for the current and past three years.
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W2 Transcripts
1. Wage and income transcripts show earnings reported to IRS by payers.
Income documents are derived from information returns, including, but not
limited to:
W-2 Series Forms
Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements
2. This transcript is ordered when the taxpayer wants income documentation.
Some reasons may include, but are not limited to:
Answer a notice
File their tax return
Personal record of income
Employment verification
3. The information displayed on the wage and income transcript contains, but
is not limited to::Wage and salary income, Federal income tax withholding,
Mortgage interest paid, Distributions from retirement income, Gross
proceeds from stock/bond transactions, Gross income from non-employee
compensation, Interest income and Dividend income.
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conditions and for these checklists and conditions there are documents which needed to be there
to fill checklist and resolve condition. If correct documents are not provided by broker, loan
cannot be processed further so as a pre-underwriter I need to find out that which document is not
present in loan file and the provided documents are fulfilling the HUD, FHA and SWMC
guidelines. Below are the major roles and responsibilities which are performed by me
1. We have to timely check that the timely response was sent to the Relationship Managers or
UW RMs to call Clients and inform them about discrepancy and shortcoming in loan file and ask
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2. To make sure that risk is mitigated before the preparation of loan documents.
3. To remain in contact with the UW RMs and broker/client till the loan not cleared to close.
4. To make sure information is flowing through each department in the company for the loan.
5. To push the loan toward the funding as soon as possible.
6. To make sure broker/client is providing documents that are needed for closing the loan.
7. To make sure RMs is regularly calling broker/clients and borrower for the documents.
8. To follow up the mails regularly to keep ourselves updated.
9. To make sure loan is being properly handed over to docs drawing department after submitting
to prior to Doc or PTD requested.
10. When the loan is cleared for close then we ensure that the process checklists are filled
correctly by UW-RMs with respect to the data in the system and loan documents uploaded in
the file storage which is called Broker Inbox or BI.
11. To make sure loan is being dispatched for borrower to sign as soon as possible so that loans
queue could be effectively handled by ARM team for better quality and satisfactory service of
borrowers.
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Chapter-3
Analysis of the Job Done
The job done by me as a financial analyst in XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. is totally different
from the financial analyst of the other finance companies. It is because XL Dynamics India Pvt.
Ltd. is in mortgage industry so I as a financial analyst do more of compliance analysis over here.
I use to work on test loan files because I am still in training.
Working as a pre-underwriter in the company for two months I have learned and understand many
things which built a firm base for me to go further in the company.
Below are the few points which I have done and come to know
Purchase loans
Refinance loans
FHA loans
Conventional loans
USDA
2. Turnaround time on loan to get fully executed depend upon the origination type of loan, because
everything get changed as per the origination type. Following are the origination types of loan
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W** Warehouse loans (The loan is originated by Other lenders and sold to us)
3. We work at night, so we use o interact with U.S staff, Broker/client and borrowers.
4. I come to know how to mitigate and reduce risk by using appropriate underwriting techniques and
conditions which are being imposed on loans for mandatory checkpoints to close the loan.
5. I come to know how to identify borrowers credibility whether the borrower would be able to pay
regularly installments or not and if not then how we ask for more legal documents (e.g. bank
statements, any liens if have, other credits) to verify whether the borrower would be able to pay in
the future.
6. If as a result of my fault or delay in the loan process broker cancels the loan with company this
would result as loss for the company as well as for me as it would definitely impact the overall
growth of mine.
7. Even a small mistake could result in a big loss for the company .So I could say it a more technical
and risky job.
8. We decide when to sell the loans as MBS or mortgage based security to big banks like WELLS
FARGO.
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Chapter-4
Learning Outcomes
As I have mentioned earlier that the job done by me as a financial analyst in XL Dynamics India
Pvt. Ltd. is totally different from the financial analyst of the other finance companies and I have
also mentioned that XL Dynamics is in mortgage industry. So I learned a totally new concept
over here. During these two months on the job, I have learned lot of things, which are related to
mortgage industry. Following are the points that I have learned on job are
Learned about AML- Anti Money Laundering and passed Anti Money Laundering quiz
which is a compulsory requirement for working in XL Dynamics or any US finance
company.
SunSoft
Financial(Mortgage) Calculator
MOL
Applied concept of U.S Mortgage basics on test loans which I had learned from the initial
training assessment for 10 days. Basics learned in training helped me to apply the right
concept to review the loans in easier way.
I come to know that how the U.S mortgage industry works. What the different types of loans
and loan programs are there in the U.S.
I learned how to add conditions and resolve/ waive them. It means how to resolve particular
issue with the use of documents which is provided by the broker/client.
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Leaned to work on the documents which is sent by the broker at night and with knowledge of
expertise learned how and where those documents should be processed or used to resolve
condition.
I prepared myself to work in night. For some days it was unbearable to awake at night and
work efficiently but now I do not find any difficult to remain active during night shift.
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I learned to remain efficient and active during the 9 hours to 11 hours shift.
Chapter-5
Suggestions and Recommendations
After working in XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd. or I should say SWMC (Because it is the parent
company and all the operations are controlled by it) for 2 months, there are some suggestions
which I would like to give to the company. Following are the suggestions1. Training duration of new comers is very short (10-12 days only) but content which they
deliver in the training is very big. It should be at least three weeks long so that new comers get
enough time to understand the concept.
2. Conditions should be grouped into different groups as per origination types so that each of the
issue of different loan products could be handled separately and executed quickly and efficiently.
3. There are so many issues in the SunSoft software of the company. Sometimes it works
properly but sometime it does not work which result in data loss. Some time it works very slow.
This issue needs to be fixed as soon as possible so the work could be handled efficiently and
quickly.
4. There should be more coordination of work between the teams. As I found that because of
other teams loan get stuck for few days. If this problem is resolved then speed of the processing
of the loan could be enhanced.
5. In spite of using Libra Office which is very slow, they should use MS Office package because
it is easy, fast, reliable and convenient and we are familiar with it also. If they do this then the
speed of reviewing documents could be improved,
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Bibliography
1. http://www.firstresearch.com/Industry-Research/Mortgage-Banking.html
2. https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42995.pdf
3. http://www.swmc.com/swmc/
4. http://www.xldynamics.com/
5. http://www.xldynamics.co.in/
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