Category: News and Trends

Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) Prep Course Starts January 2024

The Residential CMB Online Prep Course is a seven-week instructor-guided web-based course designed to prepare Residential CMB candidates for the written exam. The course is taught by CMB designees and is offered in a blend of self-study and webinar format. A kick-off call plus six additional weekly webinar meetings, held on Friday afternoons, allow for the participants to interact with the instructors and each other.

| By MBA NewsLink Staff

MBA Advocacy Month Wraps Up

Engaging in the political process is a critical component of MBA’s work on behalf of its members. During MBA Advocacy Month in September, MBA hosted various events including #MAAMonday and a MORPAC Speaker Series event with Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis.

| By MBA NewsLink Staff

Quote: Oct. 6, 2023

“The challenging rate environment is a product of many factors and is likely to persist, but these steps by the Fed would help to reassure investors and should provide relief. MBA continues to fight on your behalf with regulators, policymakers on both sides of the aisle, the GSEs, and the Fed.”
–MBA President and CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB

| By MBA NewsLink Staff

Mark P. Dangelo: Playing Chicken with the Data Freight Train

The “mastery” of data is not about how much you capture, how large your data warehouses or lakes become, or the native cloud provisioning solutions you deploy—it is about creating, sustaining, and utilizing a data supply chain already being deployed by non-traditional lenders.  To think otherwise is akin to “playing chicken” with a freight train—hoping somehow it will veer from its tracks and spare you.

| By MBA NewsLink Staff

MBA Advocacy Month Wraps Up

Engaging in the political process is a critical component of MBA’s work on behalf of its members. During MBA Advocacy Month in September, MBA hosted various events including #MAAMonday and a MORPAC Speaker Series event with Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis.

| By MBA NewsLink Staff