Global Debt Registry Response to Arizona Senate Passing Legislation Requiring Full Chain of Title Documentation on Mortgages

Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) March 14, 2011

On February 22nd the Arizona State Senate passed SB 1249 requiring lenders that did not originate a loan to produce the full chain of title for all prior beneficiaries or risk the foreclosure sale being voided and award of attorney fees and damages. The bill passed the Republican-dominated Senate by an overwhelming margin of 28-2. The bill is now in the House where it is expected to pass despite opposition from the states banking industry. The legislation, if passed into law, would become the first in the country requiring lenders to prove they have the right to foreclose by providing a complete list of any previous owners of the mortgage, or chain-of-title documentation on the debt.

In 2006, Global Debt Registry (GDR) recognized the serious weaknesses in consumer data management practices, and began development on a new technology platform that would ensure the integrity of managed and traded data, track account-level chain of title, and provide a turnkey portfolio and document-management repository. Today, the Company offers a fully developed and proven solution that addresses many of the issues facing the mortgage finance and servicing industry today.

“It is crucial for lenders, legislators, and consumers to understand that a solution to the issues that created this crisis already exists,” said Mark Parsells Executive Chairman of GDR. “Our system provides a single source for management of all data and documentation for Issuers, servicing entities, debt buyers, sellers, legal collection firms, regulators, judges, industry participants, and consumers. We are the only turnkey provider of chain of title, data integrity, and media-management services globally, and we stand ready to provide leadership in the recovery of the lending markets and a return to the fundamentals of law.”

Bruce Gilmore, President and CIO added, Our patent-pending technologies are in use by more than 60 accounts-receivable clients and servicing entities in all 50 states. The system can be easily customized to provide titling, data integrity, and media-management services for any asset class and industry. Users can easily transmit and receive data and documents while meeting the most stringent regulatory and industry data protection requirements.

Lawmakers in other states including New York, Oregon, and Virginia have proposed legislation similar to the Arizona bill. Attorneys General of all 50 states are collectively investigating the mortgage servicing industry. GDR offers its knowledge and expertise to those seeking a proven, carefully measured solution to the issues facing the debt industry today.

For more information about Global Debt Registry contact Greg Ousley, CEO, at 866-660-2341, ceo(at)globaldebtregistry(dot)com, or visit http://www.globaldebtregistry.com.

About Global Debt Registry

Global Debt Registry delivers significant consumer protections as well as measurable ROI benefits to all participants in the Accounts Receivable Industry by providing the nations only proven, patent-pending AR titling solution. GDRs customizable platform provides a comprehensive Data Integrity, Chain of Title, and Turnkey Media Management solution. GDR maintains the integrity of traded data and documentation (validates debt); maintains accurate ownership (account-level chain of title); and provides automated access for media lifecycle management. The Company offers a customizable platform both in the performing and non-performing Securitization and ARM industry markets.

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Global Debt Registry Responds to 60-Minutes Segment on the Failure of Documentation in Mortgage Backed Securities — A Solution Exists

Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) April 11, 2011

Global Debt Registry (GDR) has a solution to fix the documentation issues raised in the broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS, Sunday, April 3, 2011. GDRs patent pending solution is designed to facilitate both legally rebuilding existing faulty mortgage titles that have been securitized and to properly record all such assignments for past and future transactions. Our solution will give peace of mind to investors, regulators, consumers, and bank participants. Once broadly implemented, GDRs solution will:

1) inject integrity and transparency into the management and validation process for the recording and multiple assignments of mortgages that occur(red) during the origination and securitization process;

2) flood county governments with recording and assignment fees by managing required filings of all past and present MERS assignments as well as new filings at a time when every county needs new sources of revenue;

3) will solve the banking industrys problem surrounding proof of ownership on securitized mortgage documents; and

4) be the catalyst to revive the private sector global securitization market providing desperately needed liquidity to the economy.

Global Debt Registry is uniquely positioned to solve the problem surrounding the inability to identify the owners of mortgages that have been or will be securitized in the future, said Mark Parsells, Executive Chairman of GDR and former senior banking executive at Citigroup, Bank One and American Express. The industry wants to do the right thing to protect consumers as well as the assets entrusted to them by shareholders of their respective companies they just havent had a solution that will accomplish both of those goals until now.

GDRs solution is clean and simple. The Company provides a central repository in which all mortgage originators can register mortgages that are marked to be securitized. Then, as the mortgage begins its journey through the securitization process, GDR will ensure that each transfer is properly recorded and assigned in the appropriate counties. Each county will be paid the fees that are required by the purchaser. GDR will house the electronic records of each transfer in our highly scalable and secure database. This will ensure that each and every mortgage that is securitized will be transferred properly with the appropriate assignee and showing that each time the mortgage traded hands that it is in the appropriate county records and that all required government service fees have been paid.

In 2006, Global Debt Registry (GDR) began development of a new enterprise platform built to track ownership, ensure traded data validity, and centralize document management for account and portfolio level transactions on consumer debt. Since then, GDR introduced its new platform to the consumer receivables industry and now supports more than sixty debt buying and servicing companies in all fifty states. GDR offers a new standard for tracking debt ownership with superior data recording and documentation management capabilities compared to existing systems.

In January of 2011, the company received a provisional patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office on technologies in its most recent platform Release GDR 5.1. GDR is on VISAs Customer Information Security Program List of Compliant Service Providers. Visas Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are the banking industrys highest standards for protecting confidential consumer Personally Identifiable information (PII).

Weve delivered a revolutionary data- and document-management platform with unmatched security and scalabilityeffectively redefining the standards for tracking and managing securitization transactions in the global financial services industry, said Greg Ousley, CEO of Global Debt Registry. Our patent-pending technology delivers integrity to the issuing/originating, servicing, and selling of debt/securities, including tracking mortgage ownership, servicing rights, and related key data and documentation.

The most widely used system for tracking assignments/ownership and servicing rights of mortgages was introduced in 1996 requiring users to participate in little more than an electronic handshake with minimal oversight. The huge growth in demand for mortgage-backed securities created time pressures that led to weak and faulty documentation highlighted in the 60-Minutes piece. GDR recognizes that weakness and designed a system with numerous real-time quality assurance points to ensure transactional integrity, transparency, and protections for all parties. While millions of legacy mortgages and their supporting documentation are destined for the courts in the months and years ahead, 100 percent of GDRs registered mortgages will be managed under the financial industrys most stringent data security requirements in a process proven to meet the federal rules of evidence, including strict adherence to the Pooling and Service Agreement requirements and verification of legally required filings with county recorders.

GDR offers its services to all those seeking a proven, carefully measured solution to the issues facing the securitization industry today. For more information about Global Debt Registry please visit http://www.globaldebtregistry.com or contact Denis Concannon, Public Relations at 781.413.0002, dconcannon@globaldebtregistry.com.

Additional Information

For an on line video of the mortgageownership segment broadcast by 60-Minutes, visit CBS News at 60-Minutes. For additional comment regarding the segment, visit CBS News on line at 60-Minutes Overtime.

For a free white paper by Attorney Daniel J. Langin summarizing the flaws in the securitization process that led to the halting of foreclosure cases throughout the country, please visit White Paper 2 – Securitization. In this second paper in a series, Attorney Langin looks closely at securities litigation in MBS, potential tax and trust law violations, and pending legislation with argument for the creation of a new standard for documenting assignment and authenticating ownership of mortgage accounts in securitizations.

About Global Debt Registry

Global Debt Registry was founded in 1996 and is backed by a $ 5 Billion private equity fund. GDRs customizable, patent pending platform provides a comprehensive Data Integrity, Chain of Title, and Turnkey Media Management solution to the Mortgage and Accounts Receivable Industries. Our mission is to deliver significant consumer protections as well as measurable ROI benefits to all of our clients.

About Attorney Daniel J. Langin

Daniel J. Langin is the principle of Langin Law Firm, LLC with more than 22 years of experience in private and corporate practice. Experience includes positions as General Counsel of two technology companies (GeoAccess and INSUREtrust.com), Global IT Law Manager for USF&G and St. Paul Insurance Companies, and several years as a trial lawyer. He has spoken and published on issues of technology and commercial law and policy in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel, and has been quoted by CNN, USA Today, CIO, Computerworld, Boardwatch, and the Boston Business Journal. He is a former member of the Aspen Institutes Internet Policy Project. For more information, see http://www.langinlaw.com or contact Daniel at (913) 661-2430 or dlangin(at)langinlaw(dot)com.

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