GHR Systems Inc., Wayne, Pa., has announced the acquisition of Berkeley, Calif.-based Loansoft, which provides retail loan origination software to four of the top 10 U.S. residential mortgage lenders, including Chase and Washington Mutual.The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GHR is best known for its widely used decisioning system and its products serving the wholesale transaction. Both companies operate on Microsoft-based platforms. The merged entity has 300 employees that serve a customer base of over 70 lenders, 17,000 loan officers, and 25,000 brokers. Loansoft said it will continue to operate from its current California location and that both entities will offer current product lines as licensed or hosted applications.
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