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Category: News and Trends
Jay Coomes: Advance Your Efficiency
Smoother internal processes can lead to happier consumers, increased profitability and reduced costs. Somewhere in your internal processes, you also have efficiencies to gain.
Mark P. Dangelo: 2020—Where Are OUR Attack Points?
In this third and final article on 2020 potential challenges, we find ourselves staring into the glassy lake. The answers on what is important reside not with prescriptive solutions offered, but beneath the surface to ensure that what is undertaken aligns with strategy and the ability of innovations to be found.
Industry Briefs
The Tennessee Mortgage Bankers Association is providing up to $10,000 in college scholarships for 2020, its 60th anniversary year.
Stanley C. Middleman: Are Non-banks Really a Systemic Risk?
The Financial Stability Oversight Council issued its annual report in December where it identified the growth of nonbank mortgage origination and servicing as a risk to the U.S. financial system. But is this really correct?
Industry Briefs
The Tennessee Mortgage Bankers Association is providing up to $10,000 in college scholarships for 2020, its 60th anniversary year.
CoreLogic: October Delinquency Rate Hits 20-Year Low
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., reported 3.7% of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in October, an 0.4 percentage point decline from a year ago.
Stanley C. Middleman: Are Non-banks Really a Systemic Risk?
The Financial Stability Oversight Council issued its annual report in December where it identified the growth of nonbank mortgage origination and servicing as a risk to the U.S. financial system. But is this really correct?
MBA: December Mortgage Credit Availability Decreases by 3.5%
Mortgage credit availability fell in December for the first time in four months, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported this morning.
MBA Chart of the Week: Factors Impacting Commercial Real Estate Finance
Buoyed by low interest rates, strong property markets and rising property values, commercial and multifamily mortgage banking firms anticipate a solid year in 2020, according to MBA’s 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF) Outlook Survey.