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Cait Howerton is a financial coach at SmartPath in Atlanta and the 2019 FPA Diversity Scholar.

Matthew de Paula is a freelance writer in New York.

Jitesh Ghai is the senior vice president and general manager, data quality, security & governance, at Informatica.

Joseph L. Breeden, Ph.D., is the chief executive of Prescient Models LLC, a models and analytics consultancy. He has published papers and given lectures on retail lending analytics and economic capital around the world. In April 2010, his book “Reinventing Retail Lending Analytics” was published by Riskbooks. Strategic Analytics, of which Dr. Breeden was a founder, has grown to become an industry power and its software and services are used to analyze over $2 trillion in credit cards, auto, home equity, mortgage and other consumer credit portfolios.

Sam Taussig is head of global policy at Kabbage Inc., an online lender for small businesses.

Blend, a mortgage technology firm that named former Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos its president early this year, has raised $130 million in Series E funding for an expansion.

Because automated valuation models have not been subjected to a stressed housing market, their increased use holds negatives and positives for residential mortgage-backed securities credit quality, a Moody's report said.

Trash and broken furniture cover the stained carpet at the boarded, long-vacant house in Trotwood, Ohio, where paint strips hang like confetti from the ceiling and an awful smell fills the air as soon as Chad Downing unlocks the door.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Eric Blankenstein's past writings disqualify him from working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

For months, Palm Beach County's tepid housing market seemed unaffected by the combination of a booming job market and rock-bottom mortgage rates.