U.S. home prices (including distressed sales) increased by 3.7% year-over-year in August, according to CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif.

Jacky Salazar, Director for Commercial/Multifamily Finance at the Mortgage Bankers Association, has been selected to join the Latinas In The Boardroom National Steering Committee.

Jason Wilborn is Operations Delivery Manager with Accenture Credit Services, Rancho Cordova, Calif.

While compliance with CRA regulations continues to be a major priority, financial institutions must recognize the importance of diversity, minority inclusion and support for underserved communities as a critical component of their overarching strategy.

The Residential CMB Online Prep Course is a seven-week instructor-guided web-based course designed to prepare Residential CMB candidates for the written exam. The course is taught by CMB designees and is offered in a blend of self-study and webinar format. A kick-off call plus six additional weekly webinar meetings, held on Friday afternoons, allow for the participants to interact with the instructors and each other.

The “mastery” of data is not about how much you capture, how large your data warehouses or lakes become, or the native cloud provisioning solutions you deploy—it is about creating, sustaining, and utilizing a data supply chain already being deployed by non-traditional lenders.  To think otherwise is akin to “playing chicken” with a freight train—hoping somehow it will veer from its tracks and spare you.