Empire Equity Group is rolling out a brand new loan origination system from Ellie Mae that it hopes will scare up unrealized efficiencies and enhance compliance efforts. Ellie Mae’s Encompass Anywhere is a Web hosted system and will connect the full service lender’s six offices in California, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina and New Jersey. Empire is also parent to 1st Metropolitan Mortgage, a national brokerage with 270 branches. About 80 percent of the broker’s branches