The world has come to talk about student loans as a trap not to walk into. While you can blame many government policies for why students find it difficult to repay their loans, banks run the risk of increasing their liabilities quite easily due to the rising cost of higher education.
To improve growth opportunities in this segment, lenders need to assess repayment capabilities more carefully. It will help offer customized loans to the maximum extent possible.
Mortgage Technology for Better Student Loans
The best approach for lenders is a combination of automation, big data, and customer service apps, which allow them to come up with granular details on students, so that the “right loans” are actually designed holistically based on an accurate finding of the student’s professional potential.
Students with unique capabilities and needs will be suitable for specific loans, so that they can find a way to good income and repay easily.
If banks were to extend their underwriting capabilities beyond collaterals and university ranks, they must look into everything from past academic scores, community level details, the market for their skills, to aptitude scores. It will help increase the customer base and faith in the lending brand.
Challenges with legacy systems
Legacy systems may have been reliable, but cannot do two things. They have data storage limitations, and even if they were to develop a temporary storage mechanism for real-time data, they cannot help the management improve on the historic component of real-time analysis efficiently.
The task of identifying liabilities accurately has always been a challenge with the limitations of data. Expanding the data set to include a large number of parameters can be cumbersome if you depend on field agents, analysts, and on-premise systems.
Early adopters of big-data technology bypassed those problems with cloud. Automated analytics and integrated platforms helped drive insights for the management to come up with cost-effective, accurate identification of liabilities, case by case.
Attracting the right students for loans
Mobile advertising is in. It brings targeting activities closer to the individual. With a vast amount of data processed automatically, banks can send offers of just the right loans to the very students who need them and are likely to benefit.
This makes your brand a more reliable one, as more and more students get to feel that you exist. Accurate targeting also helps achieve faster time to market for the loans.
Implementing mortgage software
Financial institutions are in need of technology which will allow cost-effective underwriting and accurate targeting.
The software implementation is often perceived to be a replacement of the overall system and does not up extending to a better tactical approach. Retaining legacy applications can be useful, as their capabilities are only as good as your data.
Transitioning the entire system to the latest breed of loan servicing platforms can be an effective breakthrough for saving value.
Using data adaptors and enterprise-level mobile integration, you can effectively keep your officers available, provide information to help them in real-time decisions and develop a portfolio on the lines of customized and beneficial student loans.
A variety of suitable options with minimum risk becomes possible to discern. Big-data analytics, combined with a mobile servicing platform, helps students stay aware of their financial options and helps officers take the steps that help ‘word of mouth’.
The new breed of loan-servicing platforms can make the business of student loans less intimidating. Using technology, you can drive your reputation in various niches quite effectively and put an end to the perception that education is really expensive.
The job market may be another factor, but student loans when better customized to save both ends some money, will be welcome.
- Mortgage Technology for Better Student Loans - April 25, 2017