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Category: News and Trends
Dealmaker: Capital One Closes Freddie Mac Loans Totaling $79M
Capital One, Bethesda, Md., provided Freddie Mac loans totaling $79.4 million to refinance 18 apartment communities in California and Georgia.
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People in the News Jan. 25, 2021
Greystone, New York, hired Pranika Uppal Sinha as its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Managing Director.
James Deitch, CMB: The Value of Data and Decision Intelligence in 2021 — and Onward
2020 fostered a new type of innovation for lenders to digitize their loan origination processes or improve workflow management and break down the barriers of the status quo. Sophisticated data management, now more than ever, is a non-negotiable means to maintain an edge over competitors.
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“More acute affordability challenges will emerge if inventory stays this tight and home-price growth continues to accelerate. This in turn would be especially challenging for first-time homebuyers, who make up a third of all home sales.”
— Joel Kan, Associate Vice President of Economic and Industry Forecasting with the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Scott Roller: The Ebb and Flow of MSAs in Mortgage
Marketing Services Agreements somewhat remind me of when I’m in a long and slow traffic jam on the interstate, with everyone slowing down to decipher the mystery of what happened and see the first responders doing their thing… unsure of what I might see – tragedy or trivial.
Call for Nominations: MBA NewsLink 2021 Tech All-Star Awards; Deadline Jan. 29
The Mortgage Bankers Association is accepting nominations for the MBA NewsLink 2020 Tech All-Star Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 29.
MBA Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color Continues Feb. 2 with ‘Together We Rise’
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s popular three-part virtual series, Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color, concludes on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with “Together We Rise.”
Brian D. Pannell: Paradigm Shift
Brian D. Pannell, Chief eServices Executive with DocMagic, Torrance, Calif., examines key changes the mortgage industry has seen over the past year.