Manage pipeline risk with greater confidence.

Combine real-time hedge analytics, proven capital markets practices, and trading desk expertise to help your team manage pipeline risk with greater visibility and confidence.

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Hedge Analytics

HEDGE ANALYTICS, EXPLAINED

What does mortgage hedge analytics software do?

What does mortgage hedge analytics software do?

Mortgage hedge analytics software helps lenders monitor pipeline exposure, model changing risk positions, evaluate hedge coverage, and understand how production and loan sale activity may affect their net position.

What does Optimal Blue Hedge Analytics do?

Optimal Blue Hedge Analytics combines real-time pipeline information, modeling, hedge-position analysis, execution data, and trading desk services to help lenders monitor and manage mortgage pipeline risk.

Maintain effective hedge position

REAL-TIME RISK MANAGEMENT

MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE HEDGE POSITION

Leverage our live environment and real-time information to help maintain an effective hedge position through seamless, two-way integrations with:

  • Our PPE solution
  • Our loan trading solution
  • Freddie Mac
  • Fannie Mae
  • All market aggregators
  • TBA securities pricing
  • Leading loan origination systems
Model your risk position and production

WHAT-IF SCENARIOS

MODEL YOUR RISK POSITION & PRODUCTION

Use live modeling and Optimal Blue Shock Analysis tools to compare your current hedge position with modeled scenarios and:

  • Maintain accurate intraday hedge posture
  • Manage net open position throughout day
  • Preview results of lifting/adding coverage
  • Anticipate the impact of loan sales
  • Visualize effects of new production
Real-time integration and data scrubbing

AUTOMATED COMMITTING

REAL-TIME INTEGRATION & DATA SCRUBBING

Optimal Blue data-scrubbing capabilities provide early warning of loan-level issues that can affect investor eligibility, helping teams automatically commit eligible loans.

Exceptions are highlighted as they happen in real time, helping teams identify issues before execution.

Maximize gains on every sale

KNOW YOUR TRUE BESTX™

MAXIMIZE GAINS ON EVERY SALE

With live bulk bid pricing integrated into the system and compared to all other available executions – including best efforts – you can identify the execution designed to help maximize your gain on sale. Our TRUE BESTX functionality helps lenders compare available executions to support more informed loan sale decisions.

On-demand executive reporting

VISIBILITY & TRANSPARENCY

ON-DEMAND EXECUTIVE REPORTING

Leadership teams need comprehensive reporting, but in today’s fast-paced mortgage market, they need real-time, granular reporting as well.

Give leadership teams on-demand access to managerial and accounting data, including executive summaries of gains and losses, detailed net hedge position reports, and more.

Turn Secondary marketing into a profit center

"Optimal Blue does the committing and hedging for us, allowing us to leverage their analytical knowledge and expertise while simultaneously eliminating our risk. They do such a fantastic job for us as a company and have enabled us to become more profitable."

ENHANCEMENTS

MAXIMIZE THE POWER OF YOUR HEDGE SOLUTION

PERSONALIZED SERVICE OPTIONS

Leverage the talent of our team and yours in the way that best suits your company – today and tomorrow.

  • Full-Service: Outsource your hedge operation to our experts
  • Hybrid: Combine the expertise of your team and ours
  • Self-Service: Leverage our leading technology with your team
VALUATION OF MORTGAGE SERVICING RIGHTS

Quickly calculate and understand the accurate valuations based on current market conditions.

  • Accurately and easily value your servicing book
  • Leverage MSR valuations for quarterly call reports
  • Create audit-proof financial insights quickly
  • Improve financial forecasting and decision-making
BEST EFFORTS MARK-TO-MARKET

Leverage the Optimal Blue PPE to create accurate marks for internal compliance and regulators alike.

  • Accurately mark best efforts locks to current market
  • Receive your marks on an interim and month-end basis
  • Configure marks to current market or locked investor
  • Generate summary and loan-level reporting
  • Replace hours of manual work with minutes of automation

AUTOMATE YOUR SECONDARY MARKETING

Connect secondary marketing automation and data to improve accuracy, support profitability, streamline workflows, and give teams greater visibility across execution.

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