Automation’s immense benefits rarely depart from one of its ubiquitous advantages: time-saving. Almost everywhere that automation is applied, chances are high that it deletes the need for manual processing, resulting in saving precious time for an entire organization. It’s safe to say that in the banking industry’s loan origination process, the same advantages can be had with the proper application of automated loan processing.
What’s good is that it doesn’t limit itself to that. On the whole, these loan origination process automation’s benefits coalesce to boost the efficiency of the entire process, thereby saving plenty of resources for the bank. We’ve outlined just how it’s able to achieve this as follows.
What’s Keeping Banks from Doing Optimal Loan Origination?
The very word “process” entails adherence to strict step-by-step protocol. Lending, commercial or otherwise, always requires careful deliberation of factors such as doing background checks on customers, gauging creditworthiness, verification processes, and a lot of manual data entry work. This typically applies to most banks at present, at least, for those that still stick to traditional processes of loan origination.
There’s also the perennial risk of sensitive data being compromised to renegade past employees as well as the basic risk of errors. More or less, these factors continue to hound the banking industry, to the point that they suffer big losses, usually through dissatisfied customers and wasted time, in the long run as a result.
There’s also the sheer, innate complexity of loans as a whole to consider. This is especially true if we’re talking about lending done for commercial purposes. Imagine managing thousands of data on multiple spreadsheets daily. The amount of data entry involved could make anyone’s head spin. And it’s actually still being done to this day by a lot of banks!
How Automation Greatly Reduce the Burden of Loan Origination
Simply put, automation tackles these problems head-on by reducing the time and effort required to complete the entire loan origination process. It streamlines and shortens the entire process by introducing solutions to these respective challenges. Our solutions at Bautomate, for example, are able to do so through more or less the following features and benefits
Data entry, extraction, and management wouldn’t require the usual manual effort involved.
After all, our solution directly takes care of all the data requirements for you. With its intelligent data capture tool able to extract the required data, whether it’s for verification or background checking, without the need for human intervention as much as possible. In turn, it proceeds to fulfill the data entry as well, allowing banks to not only save money on employees but be ensured of an error-free process at the same time.
Greater cost savings in the long term.
Speaking of saving money, automation’s economical benefits aren’t actually limited to the obvious reduction of labor costs. After all, banks typically still rely on paper forms when verifying customers or even when dispensing information within the workforce or to the clients. Our software functions entirely without the need for paper mediums.
Accuracy is maintained all throughout.
Accuracy of data when validating clients can make or break loan origination from the get-go. Faulty approvals may not be entirely unavoidable, but our solution lends itself to greatly mitigating it thanks in part to our integration of AI-enabled OCR validation.
Ensure a more satisfactory customer experience.
After all, who wouldn’t want to be able to have their loans approved in as few days as possible? The time value of money will always be a lingering factor to consider here, and obviously, any bank that’s able to provide people with the funding they need on a timely basis will inevitably become a preference by many.
Our solution also opens up plenty of opportunities for the bank to offer a more personalized experience to their customers, thanks to the accurate data Bautomate compiles over time.
Seamless integration in any kind of bank setting.
Most automation-based solutions come in the form of a single software. Ours come as a comprehensive platform that can impart equally all-encompassing advantages to banks. It eliminates the need for expert and skilled resources while managing to be user-friendly at the same time.
Most banks and their employees familiarize themselves with our solutions in record time. All the while, we maintain your compliance with financial regulations, which we understand tend to change over time through new directives.
Conclusion
It’s one thing to say that a solution can streamline a fundamental part of your industry, and it’s another to actually be able to show concrete results and pave pathways to growth.
We believe that automation solutions if done properly belong in the latter. It may not be able to completely eliminate some time-consuming steps involved in loan originating. However, the fact that no other viable solution can boast of cutting the same amount of time makes automation the most practical choice. The stats and the satisfied feedback from the banking industry worldwide do well to prove it.
