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“Higher mortgage rates have pushed refinance activity down more than 80 percent from last year and have contributed to more homebuyers staying on the sidelines. Government loans, which tend to be favored by first-time buyers, bucked this trend and increased over the week, driven mainly by VA and USDA lending activity.”
–Joel Kan, MBA Associate Vice President of Economic and Industry Forecasting.

MBA Education Path to Diversity Scholar Profile: Kim King, AMP

(One of a continuing series of profiles of participants in the MBA Education Path to Diversity (P2D) Scholarship Program, which enables employees from diverse backgrounds to advance their professional growth and career development.)

Rhonda McGill of PerformLine: Mitigating Compliance Risks in the Mortgage Industry

Each quarter, PerformLine hosts a regulatory compliance roundtable for the mortgage industry that gathers mortgage professionals to have open and productive conversations about the challenges they’re facing in the regulatory environment and best practices for ensuring compliance and consumer protection.

Curtis Richins of MCT on the Changing Digital Marketplace

Curtis Richins is President & CEO of Mortgage Capital Trading and Agile Trading Technologies, San Diego. He is experienced in international finance, marketing, risk management and business operations. He has worked extensively in Europe, in addition to his U.S.-based mortgage banking experience.