Chris Joles: Collaboration in Risk

Today’s financial services risk managers face two recurring issues. First, our work makes some people feel defensive; and second, we have to analyze complex business lines and correctly identify the right issues to focus upon.

Chris Joles: Collaboration in Risk

Today’s financial services risk managers face two recurring issues. First, our work makes some people feel defensive; and second, we have to analyze complex business lines and correctly identify the right issues to focus upon.

Leading During Turbulent Times (MBA LIVE)

Risk managers face many challenges during this turbulent time, but the mortgage industry has largely been successful in weathering this pandemic, panelists said Wednesday at the MBA Live Risk Management, QA and Fraud Prevention Forum.

Leading During Turbulent Times (MBA LIVE)

Risk managers face many challenges during this turbulent time, but the mortgage industry has largely been successful in weathering this pandemic, panelists said Wednesday at the MBA Live Risk Management, QA and Fraud Prevention Forum.

Tom Lamalfa: May 2020 Survey of Secondary Market Executives

What follows are findings from a survey of senior mortgage executives I conducted in the first half of May. Due to cancelation of MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference, this survey was completed over the phone rather than face to face, as has been the case in the 23 preceding surveys done since 2008.

Tom Lamalfa: May 2020 Survey of Secondary Market Executives

What follows are findings from a survey of senior mortgage executives I conducted in the first half of May. Due to cancelation of MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference, this survey was completed over the phone rather than face to face, as has been the case in the 23 preceding surveys done since 2008.

Tom Lamalfa: May 2020 Survey of Secondary Market Executives

What follows are findings from a survey of senior mortgage executives I conducted in the first half of May. Due to cancelation of MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference, this survey was completed over the phone rather than face to face, as has been the case in the 23 preceding surveys done since 2008. Normally the surveys are conducted at the secondary conference as well as at the MBA Annual Convention every October.

Brent Chandler: Timely Employment Verification Pivotal to Mortgage, Other Consumer Lending Risk Management

Mortgage bankers and consumer lenders of every stripe have their plates full right now, so some may have missed a significant development or not had the bandwidth to consider its implications. One of America’s primary investors in loans to consumers has lost confidence in automated systems used for verifying loan applicants’ current employment status, accelerating an already-in-motion shift in how borrowers’ ability to repay needs to be assessed.

Brent Chandler: Timely Employment Verification Pivotal to Mortgage, Other Consumer Lending Risk Management

Mortgage bankers and consumer lenders of every stripe have their plates full right now, so some may have missed a significant development or not had the bandwidth to consider its implications. One of America’s primary investors in loans to consumers has lost confidence in automated systems used for verifying loan applicants’ current employment status, accelerating an already-in-motion shift in how borrowers’ ability to repay needs to be assessed.