MBA NewsLink talked with Maurice Jourdain-Earl, Managing Director of ComplianceTech, McLean, Va., a provider of software and services to enable fair and responsible lending compliance. He is a noted speaker and writer on HMDA and fair lending practices and has appeared frequently at MBA events and sits on MBA’s member-led Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee.

LRES Corp., Orange, Calif., named Tina Suihkonen as Senior Director of Commercial Services. She will lead LRES’ commercial default services division and provide nationwide commercial trustee and foreclosure services.

MISMO®, the mortgage industry's standards organization, is seeking industry participants to collaborate on a new initiative to facilitate servicing transfers.

Pulte Homes, Atlanta, purchased an 11-acre former office park between San Francisco and Silicon Valley for $106 million.

In the last five years, lenders have made great strides with significant investments in best-in-class borrower experiences, navigating a plethora of new digital tools, all while adeptly navigating the ups and downs of the market. In my experience, unfortunately, most initiatives to cut costs and improve quality are short-lived or merely incremental. What I have found over my 25 years in this industry is that transformational growth only occurs when senior leadership commits itself to reevaluating their entire operating model.

(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.)

two years ago, mortgage industry advisory firm STRATMOR Group published data illuminating just how important it is for loan officers to attend their closings. We live in a very different world than we did two years ago, and while the nature of closings may have changed in 2020, the impact of the closing on the overall borrower experience has not.

Last Thursday MBA asked HUD to withhold publication of its final disparate impact rule and to bring the housing, lending and civil rights communities together for renewed discussions about how to address the wide housing and wealth gaps faced by communities of color.