The Mortgage Bankers Association’s popular three-part virtual series, Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color, concludes on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with “Together We Rise.”

The Mortgage Bankers Association is accepting nominations for the MBA NewsLink 2020 Tech All-Star Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 29.

President-Elect Joe Biden on Monday nominated Rohit Chopra, who worked closely with Elizabeth Warren in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the wake of the Great Recession, to serve as the Bureau’s next Director.

Haven Realty Capital, El Segundo, Calif., acquired 60-home dedicated rental community Ashwood Place in Naperville, Ill., for $18.5 million.

Brian D. Pannell, Chief eServices Executive with DocMagic, Torrance, Calif., examines key changes the mortgage industry has seen over the past year.

There was more to 2020 for lenders than profit. What was actually going on was a new model being put to the test.

David Upbin is Vice President of Education Operations and Programming & MBA Strategy with the Mortgage Bankers Association. He joined MBA in 2013 and is responsible for financial management, operations, delivery and programming of MBA Education’s suite of training products and events.

With congressional majorities now settled and the Biden-Harris Inauguration Day looming, on Thursday the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency released an amendment to the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements governing the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Importantly, the revisions do not call for the premature release of the GSEs from conservatorship, heeding the concerns MBA had raised in recent weeks about potential market disruptions from a rushed exit.