“COVID-19 put risk management, quality assurance and fraud prevention at the forefront of real estate finance. From the moment the pandemic hit, you were called into action to an unprecedented extent. Not only did you quickly adopt new standards and practices, but you also did so at a time of record-breaking volume.” --MBA President & CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, opening the MBA Risk Management, QA and Fraud Prevention Summit on Tuesday.

Consumer confidence took another hit in September, The Conference Board reported Tuesday, as the lingering Delta variant and concerns over the economy interrupted momentum sent the index to a seven-month low.

You’d think that when analyzing wildfire risk, California would be at the top. But a CoreLogic analysis of additional factors, such as reconstruction resources and economic recovery potential, found that Idaho and Wyoming are the states at most risk.