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United Wholesale Mortgage's new rule, which forbids brokers from doing deals with two competitors, has brought extra attention to its smaller rival.

Carla McCall, CPA, CGMA, is managing partner of AAFCPAs, a 240-person CPA and consulting firm based in New England. She was named one of 2020’s "Most Powerful Women in the Accounting Profession" by the American Institute of CPAs, and was also honored as part of Accounting Today’s Managing Partner Elite List.

The acquisition, which has a $500 million enterprise value, will extend the technology vendor’s capabilities beyond the point of sale into the stubbornly manual electronic closing process.

The UWM ultimatum cuts at the very foundation of why the brokerage channel exists, writes Jack Yoest of Catholic University's Busch School of Business.

Patrick Morrell is the cofounder and chief revenue officer at Anduin, an AI-based billing platform. A veteran sales and marketing leader and technology company founder, he began his career in sales at CEB (now Gartner). He then joined Three Ships, where he led content development and later business development, and then joined Skookum (now Method) where he led inside sales and strategic partnerships as the company scaled (later acquired by GlobalLogic). Sealed Air Corporation then recruited him to build and manage the enterprise's first inside sales team and manage a nine-figure portfolio of commodity products. Morrell then founded and eventually sold a direct-to-consumer ecommerce business, and then cofounded Digitize.AI, a fintech company focused on the health care industry, where he ran sales and marketing. After exiting Digitize.AI (acquired by Waystar), he cofounded Anduin. An avid runner, reader, and basketball fan, he lives in North Carolina with his wife Clay and two children.

Jack Yoest is a consultant and assistant professor of Practice in Leadership & Management at The Catholic University of America in The Busch School of Business, in Washington, D.C.

Henry Cisneros is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and equity owner of Siebert Williams Shank & Co. LLC.

Suzanne Shank is President, CEO and equity owner of Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC.

Economists see two quarter-point hikes in 2023. But they also expect the U.S. central bank’s own forecast will show the median Fed official projecting rates staying on hold near zero throughout that year.