Scott Gordon: With Social Media, Bankers Are ‘Behind The Times’
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Scott Gordon is president and CEO of lender Open Mortgage LLC and author of the new book 'Social Media...
Louise Thaxton: What The Mortgage Industry Can Do For Our Warriors
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Military families are more likely to have excessive credit card debt compared to average Americans and have been described...
Suzanne Schakett: Connecting Mortgage Banking To Homebuilders
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Is now the right time to put a whole bunch of eggs in the homebuilding basket? Envoy Mortgage believes...
Alex Hinojosa And The Appeal Of Google+
PERSON OF THE WEEK: When it comes to social media, there are three websites that seem to dominate all conversation relating to the...
John Vella Considers The Servicing Industry
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Some professions are not for the faint-hearted - and if the events of the last few years provide any...
Chuck Wells: The CFPB’s Effects On Mortgage Banking
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Compliance has never been a simple task, and the new wave of rules and guidelines from the Consumer Financial...
Mark Coupland On Mortgage Banking’s High-Tech Hiccups
PERSON OF THE WEEK: More often than not, the mortgage banking industry needs to run faster to keep up with changing environments. A...
Greg Friedman And The State Of The Lodging Sector
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Within the commercial real estate industry, the lodging sector has continued to experience significant improvement over the past few...
William M. LeRoy: A New PHOENIX Rises
PERSON OF THE WEEK: By all accounts, William M. LeRoy has the right to rest on his laurels: A 23-year industry veteran and...
Eddy Perez On The Mortgage Industry’s Future
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Abraham Lincoln once remarked, 'The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a...
Robert T. Chasteen-Scheer: Keeping The Customer Happy
PERSON OF THE WEEK: During the past several years, the mortgage banking industry has faced more than a few unhappy customers. But the...
Vernon Hill: Creating Fans, Not Customers
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Vernon Hill is no stranger to growing a financial services business. In the U.S., he was responsible for taking...
Virgil Brannon: The Problem With Federal Priorities
PERSON OF THE WEEK: More than four years after the 2008 financial crash, the U.S. economy remains fairly weak. For Virgil Brannon, the...
Melissa Young: Urban Renewal, Detroit-Style
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Detroit has seen more than its fair share of socioeconomic problems, and macroeconomic solutions have mostly failed to work...
Jeff Moyer: How To Run A Successful Sales Operation
PERSON OF THE WEEK: If anything, Jeff Moyer is certainly versatile when it comes to selling. Prior to becoming president of Agoura Hills,...
Tim Anderson: Signing On The Digital Dotted Line
PERSON OF THE WEEK: For many years, there was talk about migrating mortgage banking from a paper-driven endeavor to an electronic environment. And...
Diane Lang On ‘Retraining’ Your Brain To Handle Stressful Environments
PERSON OF THE WEEK: It can be difficult to accentuate the positive when surrounded by the negative. And in the past few years,...
Mary Kladde: Perseverance Amid Market Tumult
PERSON OF THE WEEK: The German writer Goethe once observed, 'In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm - in the real...
William Ross: The Challenges Facing Multifamily Housing
PERSON OF THE WEEK: The multifamily sector within the commercial real estate industry has been one of the stronger corners of real estate...
Penny A. Showalter On The Changes That Reshape Mortgage Banking
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Last year was, by all accounts, a tumultuous time for the mortgage banking industry. But what can the industry...