Broker and correspondent onboarding

How do we collect and check a broker's or correspondent's licensing, agreements, insurance and financials before they can submit loans?

Run onboarding as a checklist the counterparty fills through a link. Callvu classifies the counterparty type (a broker, a non-delegated or delegated correspondent) and its states, lists the requirements (the company and branch NMLS licenses in each state, the individual originators' licenses, the agreement and its addenda, the errors and omissions and fidelity coverage, the financial statements and net worth, the quality control plan, the ownership and background information, the regulatory history), collects each through the counterparty's link with reading and checks (the NMLS Consumer Access record, the coverage limits, the net worth test), routes the approval to the third-party originator manager in the Decision Desk, and writes the approved counterparty with its states and limits to the loan origination system so loans can be submitted.

In scopeComplex: multi-party handoffsCallvu moves: chase and verify, decide, write back

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Last updated November 7, 2026.

The problem today

The broker submitted loans in a state where their license had lapsed, and the lender found out from the state examiner.

Today, without Callvu

A wholesale lender signs a new broker. The package arrives by email: a license screenshot, an unsigned agreement, a certificate of insurance for last year, financials from two years ago. The account executive, who wants the volume, marks it complete. Loans arrive from a state the broker is not licensed in; the originator on the file is not on NMLS; the lender owns the compliance exposure.

The SAFE Act and the state licensing laws require every mortgage loan originator and company to be licensed or registered through NMLS in each state where they originate; the lender's own policy and the investors' third-party originator rules require the agreement, the coverage, the financial strength, the quality control plan and the background checks. Each requirement is a document with a check, and the checks are on public records and on the document's content.

Onboarding is where the lender decides what it will own, and it should be a gate, not a sales step.

How it runs

From the requestto the system of record.

An account executive or the counterparty requests onboarding. Callvu opens the case with the counterparty type and states.

Broker or correspondent: Provides the licenses, the agreement, the insurance, the financials, the quality control plan and the ownership information through a link.
Account executive: Sponsors the relationship and sees the checklist's status.
Third-party originator manager: Approves in the Decision Desk with the checks.
Callvu: Classifies, lists, chases, checks, routes and writes.

Classify and list the requirements
The counterparty type (broker, non-delegated correspondent, delegated correspondent), the states requested and the products classify the requirements: the company and branch licenses or registrations in each state, the individual originators' licenses, the agreement and the addenda for the products, the errors and omissions and fidelity coverage with minimum limits, the audited or reviewed financials and the net worth and liquidity tests, the quality control plan, the ownership and the background and regulatory history, the sanctions and exclusion list checks.
Chase and verify
Each item is requested through the counterparty's link, read and checked: the licenses against the NMLS Consumer Access record (status, states, the company's sponsored originators), the coverage against the limits and the lender as certificate holder, the financials against the tests, the agreement signed by an authorized officer, the owners and principals against the sanctions, exclusion and regulatory action lists; the checklist shows what is outstanding.
Decide
The third-party originator manager approves in the Decision Desk with the checklist and each check's result, and only the allowed outcomes: approve for the states and products the checks support, approve with conditions, or decline with reasons; a state without a verified license is excluded by rule.
Write back
The approved counterparty with its states, products, limits, delegation and the recertification date is written to the loan origination system and the counterparty management record, the originators are enabled by NMLS identifier, and the loan intake process accepts submissions only within the approved scope.

Where it ends: The counterparty was approved on verified licenses, documents and tests, for the states and products the checks support, and the loan origination system enforces that scope. The Decision Trace shows each check and the approval; the Audit Trace shows the documents, the public record checks and the write. The systems named here stay the system of record; Callvu writes to them and keeps the trace.

Runtime enforcement

What is enforcedwhile the work runs.

The regulations preloaded in Callvu Studio and the bank's own policies, applied as steps that run, not lines in a binder. A step that breaks a rule does not run, so a completed run was compliant.

Regulations

SAFE Act (12 USC 5101 to 5116) and Regulation H (12 CFR 1008): Every individual who takes a residential mortgage loan application or offers or negotiates terms must be licensed by the state through NMLS (or registered, for employees of depository institutions), and the state licensing laws require mortgage brokers and lenders to hold a company license in each state where they do business; a lender accepting loans from an unlicensed originator or company bears the regulatory and investor exposure.
NMLS licensing and the state licensing laws: Each company, branch and originator has an NMLS unique identifier with a public Consumer Access record showing the license status by state, the sponsorship and the regulatory actions; licenses renew annually with continuing education; the check reads the record at onboarding and recertification.
Investor third-party originator requirements (Fannie Mae Selling Guide A3-3-01, Freddie Mac Seller Guide 3101, FHA Handbook 4000.1 I.A.3 for sponsored originators) and the lender's policy: The investors require the lender to approve and monitor its third-party originators, with written agreements, financial strength and coverage, quality control and the exclusion list checks; the lender's policy sets the limits and the tests.

Company policies

No counterparty submits a loan in a state or product outside its verified, approved scope; the loan origination system enforces it.
Licenses are checked against the NMLS record, never a screenshot.
Coverage and financial tests are applied by the process on the documents' content.
The loan origination system and the counterparty record hold the approval and the recertification date.

Controls

Requirements classification by type and states.
Document link with reading and checks.
NMLS Consumer Access, sanctions and exclusion checks.
Coverage, financial and net worth tests.
Decision Desk approval with scope.
Loan origination system write with scope enforcement and recertification date.

Clocks and deadlines

Onboarding: The lender's service level, with the account executive and the counterparty seeing the checklist's status.
Coverage and license expirations: Tracked from the documents, with the recertification process opening before them.
Recertification: Annually, through the recertification process.

Documents and checks

The requirements list
Each document as received and checked
The public record check results
The approval with scope
The loan origination system record

In the Decision Trace

Each check and its result.
The approval, its scope and the person.

In the Audit Trace

Each upload with time.
Each public record check with time.
The write.

The handoff

Between the front doorand the back office.

The front door

The counterparty through its link; the account executive sees the status.

The back office

The third-party originator manager approves on a checklist with verified checks; the loan origination system enforces the scope.

The Decision Desk

The checklist goes to the third-party originator manager in the Decision Desk with each check's result and only approve for the verified scope, approve with conditions, or decline with reasons.

Proof

In scope.Proof at scale, not one process at a time.

The kind of process Callvu runs in production for customers in this industry. Ask for a reference on this exact process. The results below are the industry's published proof; each claim code links to its record on agents.callvu.com.

Bank Leumi runs its home lending workflows on Callvu.

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Community Bank of Mississippi runs TRID loans on Callvu.

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More than 1,000 processes are live across Callvu customers.

Across Callvu customers

Questions

What buyers ask next,answered plainly.

What is collected?

The company, branch and originator licenses, the agreement and addenda, the errors and omissions and fidelity coverage, the financials, the quality control plan and the ownership and background information, through the counterparty's link.

How are licenses verified?

Against the NMLS Consumer Access record for the company, each branch and each originator, by state; a state without a verified license is excluded from the scope.

What does approval enable?

Submissions only within the approved states, products and limits, enforced by the loan origination system, with the recertification date set.

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