<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has emerged as a leader in mortgages and lending according to a report released by NelsonHall.<br><br>Andy Efstathiou, Director of Banking BPO research at NelsonHall, said, “TCS’ capabilities in M&L services have been developed with a diversified client portfolio and many consulting engagements where TCS has provided consulting roadmaps to their clients. These experiences and capabilities help position TCS for success in M&L BPO.”<br><br>With the rising costs of increased regulations and an expectation for an end-to-end process transformation approach, mortgage and lending institutions are seeking partners who can provide transformation solutions which allow them to address the challenges and costs of increased regulations and help them to introduce new offerings to market or enter new markets.<br><br>TCS helps clients achieve these goals through its FORE™ simplification methodology, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) framework, TRAPEZE™ solution accelerators, as well as its analytics and cloud based solutions to provide M&L service on a BPaaS basis that gives clients flexibility in buying services to match the cyclical nature of the loan business.<br><br>“TCS is in the forefront of providing a superior customer experience through its offerings and is helping mortgage service providers re-engineer and automate operations to improve processing time, reduce costs, and increase flexibility while adhering to increased regulatory requirements, “said Dinanath Kholkar, Vice President & Global Head of Business Process Services at TCS. “NelsonHall’s positioning TCS as leader is a direct result of our strategy to build IP and domain expertise, certifications, digital offerings, automation and standardization of processes for customers around the globe.”<br><br>NelsonHall’s vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT), is part of its Speed-to-Source initiative, and is a method by which sourcing managers can strategically evaluate vendors at the onset of the screening process. Using a two-axis model, vendors are assessed against their ability to ‘deliver immediate benefit’ to buy-side organizations and meet ‘clients future requirements.’ The latter axis is a pragmatic assessment of the vendor’s ability to take clients through an innovation journey over the lifetime of their next contract. Service providers are divided into four categories: Leaders, High Achievers, Innovators and Major Players.</p>