Registration for the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Annual Convention & Expo, taking place Oct. 17-20 at the San Diego Convention Center, is officially open. Join MBA in San Diego as New York Times best-selling authors Malcolm Gladwell and Brad Meltzer keynote General Sessions on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
Category: News and Trends

Josh Lehr of Total Expert on How Data-Driven Communication Transcends Channels and Drives Lifetime Value
Josh Lehr is Director of Technology Alliances with Total Expert, Minneapolis, a fintech software company that built the first customer experience platform purpose-built for financial institutions.

Sponsored Content from Finastra: Consumers Are Buying, But Are You Providing the Mortgage?
Financial institutions are losing ground in the battle for mortgages. Learn what FIs could do to take back market share.

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“The commercial real estate recovery will be staggered, especially for office and retail due to the continued unpredictability of COVID-19 mutations. However, we believe office tenants will begin to come off the sidelines in the coming months as several tenants who pushed the pause button will need to make a lease decision.”
–Elizabeth Norton, Senior Managing Director of Research Services with Transwestern, Houston.

Tim Anderson of Evolve Mortgage Services: Wide eMortgage Adoption Remains Elusive
Tim Anderson is EVP and Director of eMortgage Strategy for Evolve Mortgage Services, where he is responsible for overseeing deployment of the company’s end-to-end digital closing platform and developing strategic partner relationships.

People in the News August 27 2021
ChainLogix Mortgage Solutions, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., appointed Guadalupe Garcia as National Sales Executive, expanding the company’s West Coast presence.

Joe Camerieri of Mortgage Cadence: How Analytics will Drive Success in Mortgage
Dealing effectively with a fast-changing market is only possible when data analysts can pull real business insight out of big pools of data. Fortunately, we have access to the technologies to help lenders get this job done.

MBA Statement on The Markup’s ‘Flawed Analysis’ of Mortgage Lending
The Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday released the following statement regarding a report by The Markup, an investigative journalism group, on its “flawed analysis” of mortgage lending:

mPowering You: MBA’s Summit for Women in Real Estate Finance Oct. 16
mPowering You, MBA’s Summit for Women in Real Estate Finance, takes place Saturday, Oct. 16 at the San Diego Convention Center just ahead of the MBA Annual Convention & Expo (Oct. 17-20).

Fitch: Homebuilders Unlikely to Sustain Strong Pricing Power
Fitch Ratings, Chicago, said the strong pricing power currently enjoyed by US homebuilders is not likely sustainable through 2022, given declining affordability, weakening consumer confidence, recent moderating demand and expectation that supply-demand dynamics will improve.