Lykken on Lending

What can you do to have a bigger impact on retaining Top Talent? Tune in to hear Matt Rettick, an International Speaker, President of Coolsprings Financial and #1 Best Selling Author of All the Rules Have Changed: What you Must Do in this New Financial Reality. In this special New Year's Day podcast, you'll hear David Lykken interview Matt Rettick about recent polls that suggest the new #1 fear of...

In this special Christmas Day episode of the Lykken on Lending podcast, David interviewed Casey Crawford, CEO of Movement Mortgage about the exciting and inspiring way in which Casey operates his mortgage company. With his company mission to "love and value people", Movement Mortgage has grown from humble beginnings and has transformed into a tremendously successful business with more than 4,400 e...

In this episode, David Lykken speaks with Marcia Davies of the Mortgage Bankers Association as they introduce, mPower - MBA Promoting Opportunities for Women to Extend their Reach. The MBA mPower is exclusively for women in the real estate finance industry, and we invite you to learn more about this network to see if it's right for you. As usual, the first half of the program will feature, Joe Far...

In today's mortgage industry, it is easier than ever to use technology in a way to increase your Mortgage business sales, improve your workflow, and run a more profitable business. Today I'm talking to Ryan Leopold from CardTapp, a complete mobile marketing suite for sales professionals that can help you increase sales, improve your pipeline visibility, and capture marketing insights to grow your...

As our series on Social Media Marketing wraps up, Kathy Kemper-Zanck of Katalyst Kampus will be our guest to discuss a series of practical ways to implement a Social Media Strategy  in order to get some quick wins and provide value to your customers, specifically in the Mortgage Industry. Kathy is the founder, owner and managing director of Katalyst Kampus, "Your Mortgage and Business School," and...

As we continue our series on Social Media, our guest this week is Dave Scilabro of Harvest ROI. Harvest ROI aims to help their clients find a unique strategy in order to drive sustainable growth and deliver a world-class customer experience. About HarvestROI: HarvestROI offers RealGrowth™ (Go to Market Strategy Development), InboundMortgage™ (Inbound marketing packages for loan officers, branches,...

This week David Lykken interviews Tom Sliker of Broadstreet Consulting about creating a comprehensive digital marketing strategy in the area of Google Search and we hear how Tom has helps clients generate $10 - $20 of sales for every $1 spent. Here's what David will discuss with Tom during this podcast: - details on what Broadstreet Consulting does in the area of Social Media marketing. - details...

Are you missing the boat? Get LinkedIn today, it’s easier than you think! Rob Lowe, a LinkedIn pro, shares his insight on the show today! You have a LinkedIn profile and you accept invites when they come in but you’re not really using it, right? You’re already extremely busy so how do you find the time to post articles, search for connections, and send private messages? Is it really worth the effo...

David Lykken is Joined by Special Guest Donald C. Lampe. Mr. Lampe is a partner in the Financial Services Group in the Washington D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster. He represents banks, mortgage companies, automotive finance companies, insurance underwriters and agents and other financial service providers in a variety of financial services and bank regulatory matters.  As normal, the first half...

David Lykken is Joined by Guest Dr. Lynn Fisher. Lynn serves as Vice President of Research and Economics of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).  In this role, she is responsible for managing MBA's economic and mortgage originations forecasts and developing analysis on issues of importance to the mortgage industry. Lynn also serves as the Executive Director of MBA's Research Institute for Housi...

Join David Lykken 'live' from the MBA Annual Conference from Denver, Colorado as he recaps all the priorities and details from the "A View From Washington" Presentation with The Honorable Benjamin S. Carson Sr., M.D. , Secretary , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Honorable Melvin L. Watt , Director , Federal Housing Finance Agency. Secretary Carson will share his priorities...

This regularly scheduled podcast will be delayed until 3:00pm Central Time at which time David Lykken will report 'live' from the conference floor.  David will recap all the priorities and details from the "A View From Washington" Presentation with The Honorable Benjamin S. Carson Sr., M.D. , Secretary , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Honorable Melvin L. Watt , Director ,...

What is your highest cost of doing business? People. How to find the right ones, how to make them productive, how to keep the best. We can help! What behaviors are you hiring? What behaviors do you want to hire? How will your new hires fit in the team they join? How will you align them with your culture and their team mates? How do your employees learn? What motivates them? How can you manage them...

Today's exciting podcast features John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE.  David and John will dive into financial dignity empowerment as an approach to community uplift, creating an economy that works for all.   Bryant has a new book recently released on 9/18/17 titled "The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation." Don't miss these key points from today's podcast: 1....

With the mortgage market transforming at such a rapid pace, your company needs to be on board.  Join David and Allen Pollack as they discuss the exciting events and products revealed at the 2017 National Mortgage News Digital Mortgage Conference in San Francisco, CA.  Learn about new partnerships and opportunities; new technologies that help you think mobile first not just mobile ready; and digiti...

Is your company prepared to serve the new emerging mega market?  Between 2010 – 2025 there will be 17 million new household formations in the United States and 13 million will be from diverse segments of which 40% will be Latino! Join David as he talks with Maria Vergara, President of NAHREP Consulting Services (NCS), a marketing consulting firm specializing in the Hispanic segment and housing ind...

Join David as he talks with Scott Augenbaum, Special Agent at the FBI.  Scott has supervised the Washington D.C. Cyber Crime Fraud Unit and was responsible for managing the FBI's Cyber Task Force Program and Intellectual Property Rights Program. He also managed the FBI Memphis Division Computer Intrusion/Counterintelligence Squad in Nashville, TN.    Scott has had the opportunity to provide hundre...

I recently was able to connect and interview Joe Tyrrell, EVP of Corporate Strategy with Ellie Mae.  As the executive in charge of Corporate Strategy, Joe is responsible for the company's product strategy, product management, corporate development, which includes all of Ellie Mae's M&A activity, as well as all business development, which creates and manages all relationships with companies with wh...

You will be encouraged with today's personal story of courage from 9/11.  Join David as he listens to C.J. De Santis retell his amazing story.  C.J. is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at CounterPointe Energy Solutions and he will also discuss his macro view of housing finance in America pre-9/11, pre-housing crisis, and his thoughts on if we will ever return to the days where Wall Street played...

Because an increasing number of mortgage originators are finding that using social media can be an effective way to originate loans, David Lykken invited Jessica Peterson of Simply WOW Agency to review some basics of social media "best practices", and Jeff Sellers, a TMS-Advisors media strategy consultant, to discuss things to think about when considering a social media advertising strategy.   Thi...

Many of you are aware of the exciting formation of Finastra, the 3rd largest financial services technology company in the world.  Today we are joined by its Global Head of Lending, Eric Cummins, to explain how Misys and D+H joined forces to create a diversified global financial software provider. Hear his ideas on the Mortgage Market along with important developments happening across our industry....

On today's podcast we invited Pete Mills, SVP of the MBA, to wrap-up our 8-week series on “GSE Reform” as well as give our listeners an update on “Transitional Licensing” for loan originators.  We encourage our listeners to go back and listen to each one of the past seven podcasts on GSE reform. There's so much valuable and interesting information in each of the interviews on this very important t...

Our guests, Glen Corso and Scott Olson, who both run small lender trade associations, will talk about what small lenders want, and what they don’t want from GSE reform. As normal, the first half of the program will feature, Joe Farr of MBSQuoteline providing a rate & market update, Alice Alvey of Union Home providing a regulatory & legislative update as well as Sam Garcia of Mortgage Daily giving...

This is our 5th in a series of podcasts focusing on GSE Reform and on this podcast, David interviews Mark Jones of AmeriFirst Mortgage Banking Group. Mark will be providing a much more in depth perspective into why GSE Reform is so critical especially when it comes to loan servicing.  Also, Mark will be sharing his take aways after meeting with US HUD Secretary Ben Carson and US Treasury Secretary...

Our discussion on GSE reform continues again this week with a distinguished panel of industry veterans Joe Murin, the President of Ginnie Mae in 2008 & 2009, Jay Brinkmann former Chief Economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and Gary Ort who recently retired Texas Capital Bank (TCB) where he was the President of Mortgage Finance for the TCB.  With over a 100 years of combined  experien...