GRAPEVINE, Texas–“Thanks to your hard work, millions of people are safe in their dream of homeownership,” said Owen Lee, 2026 MBA chair-elect and CEO of Success Mortgage Partners at the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference and Expo.
Category: News and Trends
Clever Offers: 85% of Homeowners Faced Unexpected Repair Costs Last Year
About 85% of homeowners spent money on an unplanned home repair last year, according to a new report from Clever Offers, St. Louis.
Industry Briefs, February 18, 2026
Industry news from ICE, WFG, Outamation, Mortgage Bankers Association, The Mortgage Collaborative, Planet Insurance Agency and Goosehead Insurance.
Honoring Former MBA Chairman Herbert B. Tasker, CMB
Former MBA Chairman Herbert B. Tasker, CMB, passed away on January 30, 2026. The Mortgage Bankers Association and his many friends and colleagues remember him fondly.
MBA Statement on Fed Vice Chair Michelle Bowman’s Speech on Proposals to Revitalize Mortgage Lending
MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released a statement on Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman’s speech titled, “Revitalizing Bank Mortgage Lending, One Step with Basel,” in Orlando, Fla.
MBA Sends Letter Regarding Changes to ANS for H.R. 6047
The Mortgage Bankers Association sent a letter to the leadership of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs regarding the amendment in the nature of a substitute for H.R. 6047, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026.
Chart of the Week: Mortgage Delinquency Rate by Loan Type
According to MBA’s National Delinquency Survey, mortgage delinquencies increased across all three major loan types–Conventional, FHA, and VA–in the last three months of the year.
Advocacy Update: Broeksmit Testifies on the Secondary Mortgage Market; House Passes Bipartisan Housing Package; MBA Warns Against VA Funding Fee Increases
This week’s top legislative and policy news from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Reinventing the Mortgage Data Core: Why Agentic AI Will Stall Without a Data Foundry
Longtime MBA NewsLink contributor Mark Dangelo argues that the next era of mortgage competitiveness will be determined by whether institutions reinvent their data core through a data foundry model.
Are Data Centers a Bubble? What About AI?
SAN DIEGO–Those were questions that multiple panelists attempted to parse Feb. 10 at the Mortgage Bankers Association Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.