Ms. Griffin’s Goal is to Help Correspondents Lead their Markets with

Innovative Non-Agency Products

N.C. — March 30, 2021 — Non-agency lender Deephaven today announced the appointment of Shelly Griffin as Senior Vice President of Client Development. Ms. Griffin’s goal is to help Deephaven’s correspondent partners improve loan volume and borrower satisfaction by making it easy and efficient to originate non-agency products.

She brings 20 years of multifaceted mortgage industry experience to her role, including secondary marketing, operations, training, underwriting and sales. Previously, she served as Vice President of Client Development and Director of Client Risk Management at Deephaven.

“Shelly embodies Deephaven’s vision of an evolving mortgage industry, aligning itself to a broad range of homebuyers, from first time purchasers to investors and entrepreneurs,” said John Keratsis, CEO and President. “We are excited to have someone with her strong experience and bold outlook on our senior leadership team.”

“I am thrilled to harness our ingenuity and market responsiveness to help our partners compete more effectively,” said Ms. Griffin. “Deephaven’s ability to provide a diverse range of products and price points through multiple delivery channels gives correspondents an advantage in their markets.”

March 3rd, 2021 Cherry Hill, N.J. – An annual joint survey program developed and published by National Mortgage News and Best Companies Group was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best employers in the U.S. mortgage industry. This year’s list included 50 companies.  National Mortgage News honored all the winners and revealed the final rankings in a special report published in March, 2021 and EMM Loans made the list!

“The companies that are a part of this year’s ranking have demonstrated exemplary support for their teams during an unprecedented year of upheaval,” said Heidi Patalano, editor-in-chief of National Mortgage News at Arizent. “They’ve been nimble in adapting to circumstances surrounding the pandemic while origination demand exploded. Each of this year’s honorees should be proud of their accomplishments during these challenging times.” Companies from across the United States entered a two-part survey process to determine the National Mortgage News’ Best Mortgage Companies to Work for. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems, and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Best Companies Group managed the overall registration and survey process, analyzed the data, and determined the final rankings.

EMM Loans, an $11 Billion+ residential lender, has been recognized as one of the Best Mortgage Companies to Work For. “We consistently work to identify the best ways to invest in our employees. Whether it be ways to improve communications, technology, better training, offering advancement opportunities or better business processes, we want to do whatever we can to create a culture that helps our employees be the best they can be.” said EMM Loans President, Kevin Crichton. “It gives us quantitative and qualitative feedback from our employees that serves as a scorecard on how well we are doing”. The study shows that EMM Loans is firing on all cylinders. All aspects of the company received high marks. Employees at EMM loans had an over a 90% satisfaction rating in categories such as Leadership and Planning, Corporate Culture and Communications, Role Satisfaction, Work Environment, Relationships with Supervisor, Training/Development and finally, Overall Engagement. “What was important” said Mr. Crichton “was that we received strong marks across the board. No matter what the tenure, employee age, gender, job role or department our employees felt we were giving them the things they need to both succeed and enjoy what they are doing. We still have so much more to do to build a truly successful and rewarding culture, this recognition shows us we are heading down the right path and I am proud of our people and honored that we made the list.”

About emmloans: EMM Loans LLC - Lender NMLS 2926. Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Employer. www.emmloans.com is a private, direct-endorsed lender serving clients nationwide. Company is headquartered at: 3 Executive Campus, Suite 520 - Cherry Hill, NJ 08002. Verified business registered with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) Registry:  www.nmlsconsumeraccess.com About Best Companies to Work for, visit www.bestmortgagecompaniestoworkfor.com

Integration enables mortgage lenders to instantly research realtor and originatorproduction statistics within the CRM platform.

SEAL BEACH, Calif. – OptifiNow announced today that they have integrated with Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a provider of powerful real estate market intelligence and analytics technology. The integration allows OptifiNow's mortgage CRM and marketing platform to connect with MMI, providing users with instant access to a sprawling database of realtor and loan originator production data.

MMI is a resource that aggregates up-to-date production statistics and other information on licensed realtors and loan originators nationwide. The data provided by MMI offers unique insight into the capabilities of real estate and mortgage professionals.

"Mobility Market Intelligence provides lenders with critical data on realtors and originators that drive valuable, revenue generating partnerships," said Ben Teerlink, CEO of MMI. "Mortgage lenders can utilize our data to find high quality realtor partners or identify top producing originators for recruitment. The integration with OptifiNow makes it even easier to take action on our data by creating powerful sales and marketing campaigns aimed at mortgage professionals in our database."

OptifiNow's integration provides quick and convenient access to MMI data within their CRM platform. With one click, users can pull up comprehensive statistics on realtors and originators. Dynamic features of MMI are also accessible through the integration, such as tracking realtors for new listings or building instant co-branded flyers and microsites.

"We use MMI and OptifiNow to help us quickly identify quality candidates for our recruiting team," said Chris Knowlton, CTO of Inlanta Mortgage, a nationwide lender based in Wisconsin. "Finding the right loan officer to target used to be like a needle in a haystack. OptifiNow and MMI made it easy for our recruiters to pull up data on any licensed loan officer and immediately determine whether a candidate is worth investing in. It saves our recruiters a tremendous amount of time."

"Our integration with MMI provides a tremendous advantage for mortgage lenders," said OptifiNow founder and CEO John McGee. "We focused on making sure MMI data is right at our user's fingertips without having to leave our platform or login to another system. We are very proud to be partners with MMI and give our mortgage lending clients access to this valuable resource. We feel it gives them a distinct competitive advantage."