Mortgage Bankers Association Vice Chair Kristy Fercho testified Friday before a House subcommittee on the real estate finance industry’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying mortgage servicers adapted to changing customer needs quickly and asking Congress to give the industry additional flexibility to address evolving market conditions.
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From our cave to yours, welcome to the new week.
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Welcome to our new dystopian reality: life as we know it has been suspended indefinitely.
House Committee Asks Regulators, Financial Institutions to Report on Coronavirus Actions
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., sent a letter to Administration officials, regulators and financial services organizations (including MBA President and CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, and credit reporting agencies expressing concerns about risks related to the coronavirus pandemic and steps they are taking to prevent Americans and the financial system from being harmed.
MBA Updates Coronavirus Resource Center; House Committee Asks MBA for Input on COVID-19 Consumer Protections; MBA Coronavirus Webinar Today
It seems the only thing moving faster than COVID-19 itself—now classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization—is news about the coronavirus. Here is a quick update from the Mortgage Bankers Association:
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger appears before the Senate Banking Committee this Tuesday, Mar. 10 to deliver The Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress.
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It’s only March, but there’s already a Word of the Year: “Coronavirus.”
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SAN DIEGO–For the Mortgage Bankers Association, the action shifts from New Orleans following last week’s Independent Mortgage Bankers Conference, to the west coast for the MBA annual Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo.
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The impeachment trial of President Trump continues in the Senate for a second week, a spectacle that has captured the attention of Washington, as well as people across the country and around the world.
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The past four years have been anything but “normal” in Washington, D.C.–if there’s even such a thing as “normal.” But with an impending impeachment trial hanging over the Senate, things could get even weirder.