Akcelerant, a Malvern, Pa.-based provider of hosted and on-premise solutions to the financial services industry, has entered into a partnership with FirstClose, an Austin, Texas-based aggregator of mortgage settlement services. Under the terms of the partnership, Akcelerant and FirstClose will provide mutual customers the ability to order real estate services from nationally recognized vendors directly from the Akcelerant Framework.
According to the companies, the partnership will create a collection connector to enable service requests for automated valuation models, broker price opinions, full appraisals on appraiser price opinions, title reports, flood certifications and other services in an integrated fashion, at any time over the life cycle of a loan, or many loans, which may be delinquent or not.