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Volume 23 Issue 43

Monday, March 04, 2024

MBA Advocacy Update: Congress Passes Stopgap Funding Bill to Avert Government Shutdown

This week’s top legislative and policy news from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

MBA Applauds Efforts to Improve Loan Repurchase Requests; Calls for Better Alignment at the GSEs

MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, issued the following statement regarding recent moves by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to address loan repurchase requests:

MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Average UPB of Repurchased/Indemnified Loans

MBA Research recently analyzed repurchase and indemnification volume over a five-year period from the third quarter of 2018 through the third quarter of 2023.

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TOP NATIONAL NEWS

MBA Opposes FHA Program Extention
Signs of Trouble at Regional Banks Reignite Sector Fears
America’s Apartment Buildings Are Getting Bigger and Taller
High Mortgage Rates Leave Biden Searching for Housing Relief
Manhattan Office Market Sees Record-High Availabilities in February
Inside the Greening of a 1930s New York City Building
Can’t Afford to Buy a Home? Here’s a Plan of Action to Make it Work
Despite Drop in Q4 HELOC Lending, Turnaround Possible

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Affordable Housing Insights: Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Solutions March 5
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About the MBA Career Center

Quote: March 4, 2024

"MBA has led the industry over the past two years in a constructive engagement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the GSEs to develop more effective alternatives to a repurchase request when dealing with loan defects on performing loans." --MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, discussing recent moves by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to address loan repurchase requests

Industry Briefs March 5, 2024

Industry news from ACES Quality Management, Matic, Truv, Dark Matter Technologies, Paradatec, LoanLogics, BaseCap Analytics and Calque.

March 04, 2024

Carmine Cacciavillani from Blue Sage Solutions: How a Bridge in the Cloud Creates Endless Opportunities

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One of the most interesting paradoxes is the Mobius strip, a two-dimensional shape made by taking a strip of paper, twisting one end 180 degrees, and taping the ends together, forming one continuous surface.

March 05, 2024

MBA Education Path to Diversity Scholar Profile: Sol Duree

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(One in 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.)

March 04, 2024

People in the News, March 5, 2024

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Personnel news from Fannie Mae, Xactus, Cenlar, Click n' Close and Westcor Land Title Insurance Co.

March 01, 2024

Dan Mugge from Calque: How Proptech Will Guide the Next Generation of Mortgage Lending

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During the dot-com bubble, most tech and internet companies were highly overvalued. Optimism flourished among investors who were too distracted by market trends to question and vet these unrealistic metrics. Sound familiar?

March 01, 2024

MBA Opposes FFB Risk Sharing Program Extension; Calls on HUD to Address High Fees

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MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released a statement on the Biden administration’s recent housing announcements, which include extending indefinitely the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) Risk Sharing program.

March 01, 2024

nCino’s Jay Arneja: The Top 5 eVault Myths Debunked

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It’s uncertain how long it will take mortgage lenders to achieve a fully digital mortgage closing process, but recent innovations are making the path much smoother.

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