Welcome to the MBA Annual Convention & Expo

The Mortgage Bankers Association is bringing the most anticipated industry event of the year directly to you. Join us online for the MBA Annual Convention & Expo 2020 and connect whenever you want, from wherever you want.

Under One Big ‘Virtual’ Roof: Get Ready to Immerse in MBA Annual20

For those planning MBA meetings, and especially its Annual Convention & Expo—the association’s flagship event—the pandemic has forced a rethinking in how attendees could attend, sans travel, meeting in person and sitting in a dark room wondering when you can step outside and take a look around.

5 Tips to Make the Most of MBA Live

While MBA Meetings staff scramble behind the scenes to bring you an incredible 3D experience, there are also steps you can take to ensure you’ll make the most of your time at this year’s MBA Annual:

Equality, Equity and Fairness for All: Meet MBA 2021 Chair Susan Stewart

There’s been progress in recent years, but it’s still unusual to see women in leadership positions in mortgage banking. But change is happening, and happening fast, thanks to trailblazers like Susan Stewart, CEO of SWBC Mortgage Corp., San Antonio, Texas, who is also the Mortgage Bankers Association’s incoming chair for 2021.

MBA Annual20 Begins Today

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s first-ever virtual Annual Convention & Expo kicks off this morning, Oct. 19 and runs through Wednesday, Oct. 21.

MISMO Approves Reference Model 3.4

MISMO®, the mortgage industry’s standards organization, today announced that its widely adopted MISMO 3.4 Reference Model has been upgraded to “Recommendation” status. This status is the highest possible maturity level that can be bestowed on a MISMO standard.

Rachael Sokolowski and Rick Triola: Impediments to Interstate Commerce Eliminated by Passage of The Secure Notarization Act

What ever happened to Senate Bill 3533, the Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2020 (the “SECURE Act”), bipartisan legislation to authorize and establish minimum standards for electronic and remote notarizations (RON), which was introduced in mid-March? We assert that this question would be on more lips and in more headlines had not nearly every state in the Union either adopted its own version of the law or enacted pandemic-necessitated workarounds.