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Demand deposit accounts (DDAs) are evolving. With traditional decisioning software, consumers had wait time involved when opening a demand deposit account--they had to wait to find out if they were approved and if they were they had to wait to start using the account. However, now with new solutions, financial institutions (FIs) can use automated decisioning to open accounts effectively and efficiently and realize profits in the process. Automated decisioning is used to not only analyze consumer data to find out if they are credit-worthy, but is also used to incorporate steps into the decisioning process that enhance the customer experience, builds deeper relationships, and increases profitability for FIs.

Similar to any other kind of business, financial institutions (FIs) are continually striving to stay competitive while decreasing costs, increasing efficiency, and improving their processes. While all three may not be possible to do at one time, lending automation helps institutions capitalize on their already existing strengths. This helps increase profitability so these institutions can be sustainable for the future.

Lending automation can be the decisioning engine, the workflow engine, and integration to vendor networks. Lending automation is used in many ways by FIs including: credit and risk decisioning, enterprise origination, pre-screen, cross-sell, offer optimization and repositories, vendor networking, and risk modeling. Modern lending automation systems can be customized to cater to FI's specific needs and specifications so the solution may incorporate only one of these processes, or it may include all of them.