The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced the availability of Catalyst Partner Environment, a new application programming interface (API) platform designed to streamline digital interactions and improve the efficiency of FHA’s loan origination processes.

Starting April 14, loan origination system (LOS) providers and mortgagees that develop their own LOS platforms can begin testing the Catalyst Case Binder Business-to-Government (B2G) API in the FHA Catalyst Partner Environment.

Mortgagees interested in accessing the partner environment can send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Request for Partner Environment Access – FHA Catalyst B2G API.” They should indicate if they are an LOS/SaaS provider or a mortgagee with their own LOS (Y/N) and include their company name, contact name and role, email address and phone number. Mortgagees with their own LOS must provide their 5-digit FHA Lender ID.

FHA will review all requests and provide access instructions along with a Memorandum of Understanding and Interconnection Security Agreement for signature. Once the documentation is completed, FHA will initiate the integration process.