Melville, N.Y.-based American Brokers Conduit has launched a website that offers mortgage brokers a new set of tools and resources that allow them to manage the loan process online from locking to pipeline status.In addition, marketing materials can be individually customized for brokers to use for customer retention purposes, the company said. ABC, the wholesale division of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., a mortgage real estate investment trust, is the 13th-largest mortgage wholesaler lender in the nation. At the end of the first quarter, ABC had a network of over 8,000 wholesale brokers, an increase of over 40% since the end of the fourth quarter and up from 2,839 brokers at the beginning of 2004. The new website can be found at http://www.abconduit.com.
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