Mastercard partners with Fannie Mae for a new single-source mortgage verification service

In partnership with Mastercard Open Banking, with services provided by Finicity, a Mastercard company, Fannie Mae continues to work toward improving access to affordable housing with secure banking-powered technologies, speeding up the application process for lenders and reducing the need for manual document preparation.

In addition to helping lenders validate assets and assess a borrower’s rent payment history and cash flow, Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) validation service gives lenders the power to verify a borrowers’ income and employment information using a single 12-month asset report. This digital enhancement is saving lenders time while enhancing the borrower experience.   

Traditionally, borrowers have been asked to manually collect and share stacks of sensitive income documents with mortgage loan officers, a time-consuming and less secure process that creates inefficiency for both the borrower and the lender. 

DU provides a digital option that simplifies and removes friction from the application process. When applying for a mortgage, borrowers can access Finicity’s user-friendly Connect consent flow to link their bank accounts, enabling their data to be easily shared with the lender.  

With one report from Finicity, DU can help lenders validate a borrower’s asset, income and employment information while simultaneously analyzing cash flow and rent payment history to help approve more potential homeowners.  

All the verifications needed to process a mortgage application can be conducted on the spot, without paperwork.  

Fannie Mae’s latest innovation leverages Mortgage Verification Service (MVS) from Finicity as a leading report supplier to power the verifications needed to process a mortgage application.  

• Fannie Mae’s Digital Verification Solution requires an asset report of 12 months or more to run
• Lenders must request that this feature be turned on

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