More than 40% of annual U.S. mortgage originations are processed using Ellie Mae software. That gives Ellie Mae insight into trends such as borrowers’ credit profiles and changing underwriting standards.
Ellie Mae will allow ICE to expand its own mortgage-servicing business. In 2017, Sprecher said the mortgage market needed a complete overhaul to shift from a paper-based transaction system to an electronic method. “It’s so obvious to us that the market is going to become more electronified,” Sprecher said at the time. In 2016, ICE gained a majority stake in Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., or MERS, which documents the ownership and resale of about half of U.S. home loans.