- Sep 16-17, 2025|San Diego, CA
ALTA, MBA and CHEP trade groups make new appointments, Sagent welcomes cybersecurity executive and Ocrolus adds mortgage tech expert for new business unit.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook said in a speech Friday that the market's response to recent volatility shows resilience, but more study is needed about the financial stability implications of business relationships between banks and nonbanks.
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The top female loan originator in the mortgage industry logged $186.5 million in dollar volume over the course of 2024.
May 23 -
Rapidly rising tuition and housing costs both contributed to lower homeownership rates and a more than twofold surge in student debt in under 15 years.
May 23 -
The top five lenders had an average mortgage origination volume of more than $43 billion at the end of Q1.
May 23 -
The 14.3% rate for deals withdrawn in any April is the highest level other than in Covid-impacted 2020, as homebuyers reexamine the market, Redfin said.
May 22
Only 20% of the Top Producers in the National Mortgage News survey were under 40, while almost half were between 41 and 50, and 30% even older.
Those who raced ahead of the pack of loan originators last year went the distance by offering exceptional customer service, catering to niche pockets of demand in the market.
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Funding for Volo Loans, which assists U.S. homebuyers in Costa Rica, comes after recent polling showed a significant share of Americans open to moving abroad.
June 5 -
Wall Street is cranking up the bond machine as US homeowners, finding that buying a new house is out of reach since mortgage rates started climbing in 2022, are instead getting home equity loans and sprucing up their current properties.
June 5 -
The Senate voted to confirm Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman's nomination to be the vice chair for supervision at the central bank in a 48-46 party-line vote.
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The first-of-its-kind growth restriction established a new precedent for how regulators can address a broken bank culture. With scant information about why the cap was lifted, the action provides little clarity on what Wells did right — or what the Fed did wrong.
June 4 -
Industry representatives indicated changes to the requirements that give servicers more leeway would be helpful to more moderate-sized companies in particular.
June 4