How do Desktop Originator and LION work together?

LION provides Desktop Originator lenders and their sponsored originators with access to the Desktop Originator embedded credit retrieval and loan submission services via the LION Web site, www.lioninc.com, and the Desktop Originator Center Web site, www.lioninc.com/desktoporiginator. These Desktop Originator services are available to all MORNETPlus ^® Desktop Originator subscribers. The Desktop Originator services available through LION function exactly the same as the embedded Desktop Originator services available through our loan origination system (LOS) integration partners: Byte?s Qualifier Series, Calyx^® POINT for Windows, Contour?s Loan Handler^TM and Genesis 2000^®.

Why has Fannie Mae provided Internet integration for Desktop Originator?

The increasing popularity and effectiveness of the Internet as a vehicle for electronic communications and commerce have made it an important link between our wholesale mortgage lenders and their third-party origination partners. Enabling our Desktop Originator lenders to receive secure Desktop Originator loan submissions from their sponsored originators via the Internet provides both parties with a powerful new distribution channel and further maximizes the benefit of Desktop Originator in this new channel

What is the Fannie Mae Desktop Originator Center?

The Desktop Originator Center enables lenders to offer their sponsored originators access to Desktop Originator through LION's Web site, www.lioninc.com/desktoporiginator. With this new integration relationship, Desktop Originator lenders can offer originators the benefits of Desktop Originator over the Internet. The Desktop Originator Center also provides general marketing information about Desktop Originator ? including information on product features and benefits, sponsoring lenders, and upcoming training and events.

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