Franklin Raines Automated Quotations

The mortgage is the largest obligation that people take on and it's very expensive to get a mortgage and very painful. It's not a fun process. So we've invested quite a bit of money in using the Internet and e-commerce to make it easier. Fannie Mae has become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Last year, we underwrote through automated underwriting and electronically, two and a half million loans, $300 billion of transactions. This year will be over $400 billion. So e-commerce is moving into the mortgage sector and it's going to affect everybody.