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Coverage of Day 1 of the MBA Spring Conference & Expo #MBASpring21
So, if 2020 was one of the strangest years on record, is 2021 the “hold my beer” year? Mortgage Bankers Association President & CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, says the real estate finance industry is facing a “very different landscape” fraught with potential difficulties.
In her keynote address Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Spring Conference & Expo, MBA Chair Susan Stewart tapped into the collective frustration and hope of the entire real estate finance industry—and the nation—with a simple sentence.
A lot has happened in the past two years, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria said yesterday at the Mortgage Bankers Association's Spring Conference & Expo.
Ahead of a House Financial Services Committee markup session Tuesday, the Mortgage Bankers Association sent a letter expressing support--and concern--for several bills under the Committee’s consideration.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association and MBA NewsLink honored five industry innovators with its 2021 Tech All-Stars awards this morning during the MBA Spring Conference & Expo.
LoanScorecard’s Managing Director, Raj Parekh, looks at the new rules and what’s in store for non-QM.
Phillips Realty Capital, Bethesda, Md., structured $71.5 million for Element Critical and Safanad Inc.to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio.
The Mortgage Bankers Association recommended the Federal Housing Finance Agency align its actions on climate change and natural disaster risks with a set of core principles to reduce risk.
The finance industry’s march towards transition away from LIBOR index continues as the third quarter approaches. For all the talk of upward revisions to economic growth projections, the market still awaits the first balance sheet commercial mortgage loan based on SOFR index.
Between stay-at-home orders, historical levels of refinance activity and the big increase in forbearance requests, mortgage originators and servicers spent the past year continually creating and re-creating ways to get things done. Here’s some of the things we saw.
The financial services industry as a whole continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by customer expectations, advancements in technology, and heightened competition from incumbents and new entrants. Lenders that seize this opportunity will not only survive, but ultimately thrive well into the future. In contrast, lenders content on simply surviving, taking more of a “wait-and-see” approach, may quickly become irrelevant.
The first article of this series addressed the use of behavioral activities as enabling goals. Their purpose: to help LOs who were struggling to reach the production goals to which you and they had agreed. This follow-up piece looks at management’s additional actions to consistently communicate about those observable activity goals.
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG) Nominating Committee seeks members’ recommendations for individuals to serve on the Board beginning this October in the Investor, Lender, Mortgage Banker and Servicer categories.
