VRM Mortgage Services announced that for the third consecutive year, it is the recipient of multiple awards bestowed by DiversityBusiness.com. Now in its 16th year, Diversitybusiness.com has been identifying the nation’s most successful entrepreneurs in a variety of categories and continues to recognize VRM as one of the country’s top African-American, diversity-owned and privately held businesses.
“This is the third consecutive year we’ve been honored by DiversityBusiness. The recognition from these awards renews our efforts to strive for even greater excellence as company,” said Keith Murray, president and CEO of VRM Mortgage Services. “More importantly, I believe it is also a result of our efforts in our industry. In this past year we’ve contributed a number or diversity & inclusion initiatives including introducing a new self-assessment tool for our industry to advance this cause as a whole.”
In 2015, VRM’s training division VRM University (VRMU) introduced its Diversity & Inclusion Self-Assessment toolkit to provide a free alternative for financial service businesses to benchmark, document and report their compliance with the proposed standards mandated by section 342 of the Dodd Frank Act. Additionally, VRM’s leadership serves on multiple industry boards for diversity & inclusion including the American Mortgage Diversity Council (AMDC), the NAWRB's Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council (NDILC) and Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Strategic Diversity Committee and continues to be a strong supporter of the industry’s diverse real estate organizations through both grant programs and specialized training opportunities through VRM University.
DiversityBusiness, which produces the annual lists, provides business news and information, research, data collection and other services to advance business best practices through diversity. The “Top Businesses” are determined by a selection committee which evaluates the eligibilityfor all submissions in each award category. The “Top Businesses in America” program is sponsored by major brands which include Northrop Grumman, Apple, United States Postal Service, Wal-Mart, Colgate, Raytheon, Hilton, and Time Warner among others.