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David Lazowski, president of national recruiting and growth, talks about Fairway's aim of being an end-to-end provider through its Home.com website.

At Home Preservation Workshops, Wells Fargo home retention specialists have met one-on-one with more than 24,000 customers facing mortgage payment challenges

Mortgage Technology magazine presented its 12th annual Mortgage Technology Awards on Oct. 9

The discussion in a number of panel sessions at the Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in New York on May 6 through 9, was if, let alone when, private capital would return to the industry. In the exhibit hall, much of the vendor focus was on technology and compliance which would ease that transition. Nary a wholesaler or correspondent aggregator was exhibiting.

The message at the 2012 Regional Conference of Mortgage Bankers Associations in Atlantic City from many of the speakers at the first residential lending general session and at a roundtable hosted by National Mortgage News/Origination News was there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the future direction of the industry. And that is because it is waiting on a definition of what will constitute a qualified mortgage. Yet, attendees at the show were upbeat that the worse times are behind them.

Members of the industry gathered at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Mortgage Servicing Conference in Orlando, Fla., expressed concern about the uncertain future of the mortgage industry during a roundtable discussion with Mortgage Servicing News editors.

The New England Mortgage Expo took place on January 13, 2012 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, in Connecticut. Frank Abagnale of the movie "Catch Me If You Can" was there.

In the May issue of Origination News, we published our annual ranking of the mortgage industries leading originators by volume. There is also a listing of top originators by units. Christopher Vincent Hussain repeated as the No. 1 originator.

Market insiders at the SourceMedia Mortgage Servicing Conference in Dallas set down with Mortgage Servicing News editors to talk about a wide variety of issues that concern the industry. Topics included the foreclosure bulge, the shadow inventory, and others. Participants think that servicing may never “go back to normal” and instead must invent a new normal for itself. And since the mortgage industry overall is changing, that new normalcy in the mortgage servicing niche is still pretty difficult to define.The business, one roundtable participant said, has gone from a crisis of credit to a crisis in confidence that shows little sign of being resolved yet.

Executives from mortgage technology developer Ellie Mae rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, signaling the opening of the trading day on Feb. 4, 2013.