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Dan Savickas is vice president of policy and government affairs at Taxpayers Protection Alliance.

Joe Carufe is a CAS evangelist and co-founder of Good Measure, a fast-growing cloud bookkeeping firm known for its people-first culture and operational rigor. With over a decade scaling CAS practices and onboarding 500+ firms at Karbon, he helps accounting leaders design modern, flexible firms that attract top talent and deliver high-impact client outcomes.

President Trump and his administration have begun to scrap new mortgage lending guidelines that made it easier for home buyers and sellers to dispute property appraisals, finding that homes owned by racial minorities are routinely valued lower than comparable homes with white owners. But despite the promised regulatory relief, many mortgage lenders say the regulatory changes will not impact their lending practices.

Aleisha Donald is a partner consultant at Xero.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

Cassidy, whose experience is in multifamily, is currently HUD principal deputy assistant secretary, running the government insurer on an acting basis.

The bank is working through a list of legal issues it inherited when it bought Credit Suisse in early 2023.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office last week criticizing a probe into the bureau's funding request for 2025, insisting that acting CFPB Director Russell Vought has "sole discretion'' to determine funding and staffing levels.

Alessio Alionço is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a leading process management and AI platform. Brazilian-born Alionco is a high-impact global leader and has grown Pipefy from its founding in 2015 to a company with hundreds of customers worldwide. Pipefy delivers a business process automation platform that improves productivity and efficiency, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams in insurance.

The legislation will prohibit credit companies from consumer's data to third-party lenders in what advocates say is a win for consumer privacy.

Alternative asset manager Canyon Partners is committing $250 million to buy new mortgage bonds created by A&D Mortgage LLC, a partnership that will help the mortgage finance company substantially increase the pace of its bond sales. 

US Treasuries, coming off their best day so far this year on Friday, held onto most of the move to start a week featuring a heavy slate of note and bond auctions.

Joseph Gormley has been nominated as Ginnie Mae's first permanent president since May 2024, with industry leaders praising his housing finance expertise.

The lender said it would pay $500 for each referral from a North Carolina brokerage that it signed a co-marketing agreement with, according to new lawsuits.

More powerful storms and pricier building costs are behind the increases in premiums, said the report's authors.

Amy is the chief people officer for Lucet. She leads a team of HR professionals and provides business partnerships to drive people strategy, talent acquisition and management, learning and engagement, and total rewards. She is also an executive sponsor of the Lucet Impact & Responsibility Council.

The 35% levy on Canadian goods does not include any carve outs for lumber or building supplies, with their costs already rising, Cotality's Selma Hepp said.

The Senate bill would make forbearance available to homeowners directly impacted by extreme-weather events, including 2025 California wildfire victims.