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Amid the release of Q3 bank earnings, the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors ponders whether efforts from the government-related entities help or hurt the independent mortgage bankers that are taking up a greater and greater share of 1-4 family lending and servicing.
October 20Whalen Global Advisors LLC -
When loan officers have a broad, problem-solving focus — bolstered by diverse services, technologies and consistent attention to detail — their pipelines grow, writes the president of Incenter Lender Services.
October 15Incenter -
Should the Federal Reserve step back into the market and restart their loan purchase activity?
October 6Mountain Lake Consulting -
These business purpose loans are vehicles for a specific type of potential fraud, the reverse occupancy scheme, where someone applying for a non-owner-occupant mortgage actually intends to live in the property.
September 27Mphasis Digital Risk -
The threat of instability from that group is immaterial in comparison to the existential risk created by the U.S. Treasury, argues the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.
September 22Whalen Global Advisors LLC -
Any comprehensive overhaul of the Federal Home Loan Bank System will have to navigate a dense thicket of countervailing regulatory and stakeholder priorities.
September 13Devon Bank -
Following the anniversary of the formation of Community Mortgage Lenders of America, its president recounts the successes of the independent mortgage bank advocacy group.
September 1Developer’s Mortgage Co. -
Demand-driven inflation will continue to be a problem in the U.S. economy until we somehow work through trillions of excess liquidity provided by the Federal Open Market Committee, writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.
August 21Whalen Global Advisors LLC -
The decision from the Federal Housing Finance Agency to allow lenders to review only two credit reports for mortgage applicants will harm homebuyers with less than perfect credit, writes the founder and CEO of Financial Services Innovation Coalition and a certified general appraiser at the Dawson Valuation Group.
August 1Financial Services Innovation Coalition -
Lenders must ensure that compliance and risk management teams are fully staffed and supported at the highest levels of the organization, writes the director of technology product management at Wolters Kluwer.
July 24Wolters Kluwer