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Gary Coffey is the chief technology officer at Spectrum.Life  and has over 15 years' experience in technology and has worked in many sectors ranging from Healthtech, Fintech, gaming, AdTech, media, digital advertising, manufacturing and banking. He returned to Ireland in 2022 after living in Berlin for eight years, working in companies such as Bombardier and most recently in the media & gaming sector for Media Games Invest and Gamigo, where he held a leadership position as group chief technical officer. Gary uses his expertise in all areas of technology and business – from product development, data, M&A, commercial transformation, content & design and has a passion for building motivated & energetic technology teams.  

Harriet Christie is chief operating officer of Mirrorweb, a communications archiving solution based in Manchester, U.K.

After graduating from the University of Sheffield in 2010, she entered the tourism sector, starting as an accounts executive at LateRooms.com, earning the title of global accounts manager within three years. She occupied this role for a further five years before joining MirrorWeb.

Doxo plans to fight the FTC complaint, which focuses broadly on consumer finance, but there are signs of confusion about the company's role in mortgages too.

Members of the LGBTQ community were most likely to have experienced housing bias, according to a Zillow survey, which also found many people don't recognize how fair lending laws could help.

Senior executives making over $151,000 would still be subject to such clauses should the rule go into effect this year.

Christopher J. Gallo and his aide, Mehmet A. Elmas, allegedly withheld information in mortgage applications, hiding that borrowers were purchasing second home properties.

Dr. Sangeeta Chhabra, co-founder and director of Ace Cloud Hosting, is a leader and innovative entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. She has positioned the company as a leading global provider of IT and managed cloud services, celebrated for its QuickBooks hosting tailored for the accounting sector, as well as its Managed Security Services and Public Cloud offerings for SMBs and enterprises. Under her leadership, Ace Cloud was honored as the Best Outsourced Technology Provider at the CPA Practice Advisor Readers' Choice Awards 2023, among other accolades. Beyond her professional successes, Dr. Chhabra is a passionate advocate for women's empowerment and is committed to fostering an inclusive environment at Ace Cloud.

Karen Monks is a Principal Analyst in Celent's North American insurance practice. She brings a broad range of insurance and consulting experience to her work; she has worked as a management consultant to and within insurance carriers and other financial services companies for over 25 years.

Karen's focus is life insurance technology and trends. Her research concentrates on life, all aspects of life insurance processing including illustrations, eApplications and eSignature, new business and underwriting systems, policy administration systems, claims systems, and digital enablement technologies. Her consulting experience at Celent includes new business and underwriting system selections, policy administration system selections, distribution management system selections, vendor product strategy reviews, a life claims system benchmarking project, eApplication and automated underwriting cost analyses, plus several small life insurance technology analyses. Karen led Celent's Knowledge Management team for seven years. The KMC supports Celent's vendor assessments across all practices and helps manage vendor data on Celent's online platform, VendorMatch. She helped build out Celent's VendorMatch Digital Services Platform.

Mortgage rates rose 7 basis points this week, Freddie Mac said, and more increases are likely following a weaker than expected gross domestic product report.

Independent mortgage bankers lost the most money ever on every loan originated last year due to higher rates and lower volumes, an industry trade group said.