Lykken on Lending

On today's Broadcast, we had one of our regular listeners as a guest talking about loan origination strategies for the New Year.   Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul...

Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul Muolo of IMFnews.com giving a quick MTG NEWS HEADLINES update, Andy Schell (a/k/a "The Profit Doctor") providing tips on FINANCIAL...

  Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul Muolo of IMFnews.com giving a quick MTG NEWS HEADLINES update, Andy Schell (a/k/a "The Profit Doctor") providing tips on FINANCI...

Process improvement is certainly not a new topic but we often need to be reminded of the impact it can have on our companies.  Today's guest, David T. Lord, helps a company identify the processes that need improvement, then, shows how to make the improvements a reality. David’s particular area of expertise is visual management for enhancing communication and accelerating project completion. His me...

Staying on top of compliance today is a challenging task, even for the largest companies.  However, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has made it a bit easier through the MBA's Educational Department when the published "Compliance Essentials™".  The MBA Compliance Essentials™ Resource Guides have been developed in collaboration with expert legal counsel from leading firms serving the real est...

On this broadcast, we look at the latest trends in the Mortgage Broker/Wholesale business channel.   Many have written mortgage brokers off as going the way of the dinosaur but why is it that at the recent NAMB  convention had the largest attendance in 10 years?!?!?  Are we seeing the National Association of Nortgage Brokers (NAMB), now known as "The Association of Mortgage Professionals", making ...

Every election is significant, but the election on November 4th that could have significant ramifications to the future of our industry, our economy and our nation. Tune into this broadcast with BILL KILLMER, Senior Vice President for Legislative and Political Affairs for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America as he talks about how this election will impact the mortgage industry, housing and...

 On today's broadcast, we have as our special guest Michael Fratantoni, the MBA's Chief Economist.  Michael will be sharing with our listening audience MBA’s analysis of current economic, housing market, and mortgage market trends, including a focus on lender profitability and other business metrics, along with the latest forecast for the industry. In this broadcast, you the opportunity to underst...

Today's broadcast is an interview with DAVID STEVENS, President & CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.   In this interview, David talks about this year's line-up of speakers at the MBA's Annual Convention in Las Vegas... speakers such as Michael Lewis the author of "The Big Short", the Honorable Julian Castro, Secretary of HUD, the Honorable Melvin Watt, Director of FHFA, Donald Lay...

In response to the CFPB’s Policy Guidance concerning mini-correspondent lending, the law firm Gregg & Valby, has written a series of articles providing Policy Guidance to the mortgage industry.  On today's broadcast, we will be discussing the content of these Policy Guidance, which can be divided into the following four groups of questions: Questions relating to the majority of the mortgage loan o...

In light of the this week's WSJ headline "Flagstar Bancorp in $37.5 Million Settlement Over Mortgages" (http://online.wsj.com/articles/flagstar-bancorp-in-37-5-million-settlement-over-mortgages-1412011344) what is the future of third-party outsourcing?  Discussing this matter, we have as our special guest, Rajan Nair, President of Indecomm Global Services, sharing his insights on this topic with o...

Getting every qualified loan funded is always important, but this is especially true as loan volumes fall.  Every loan counts, which is the topic of today's broadcast.  We have invited Tyler Sherman, CEO of Motivity Solutions, to come on the broadcast.  Tyler says, "The first step to understanding pull-through is to measure it." He goes on to say, "Even though pull-through is considered critical,...

Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul Muolo of IMFnews.com giving a quick MTG NEWS HEADLINES update, Andy Schell (a/k/a "The Profit Doctor") providing tips on FINANCIAL...

Were you aware that United Guaranty will be introducing their new Master Policy on October 1st?  They also will be rolling out a new product suite called SecureCert at the same time.  SecureCert is a suite of five options that allow lenders to choose the maximum rescission relief available in the MI industry—at no added cost!   Explaining all of this, we are fortunate to have as our special guests...

You have thousands of potential customers at your fingertips, how many opportunities are you missing? It's no secret volume is down and regulations are more aggressive than ever but some companies continue to thrive despite these challenges. Brent Emler from Velma.com will talk about several marketing tools and share what he learned while writing an article on the topic of Mortgage Advertising. *...

On this LABOR DAY HOLIDAY, David Lykken shares his thoughts and commentary about the mortgage industry.   Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul Muolo of IMFnews.com giv...

MBA’s Chairman ELECT, Bill Cosgrove shares his thoughts on the Next Generation of Home Buyers and the Current Regulatory Environment.  Bill will share his views on the next generation of homebuyers and the current regulatory environment. Homebuyer topics: Homebuyer demographics, near future outlook and what’s driving decisions. Credit Availability OutlookWhere are all the First Time Homebuyers? Wh...

Are you aware that in 2012 CFPB issued a bulletin requiring all mortgage banks to monitor their relationships with vendors?  If not, you are not alone.  Even if you are aware of this, you will want to listen to today's broadcast, where we have as our guests two experts, Andy & Theresa Schell.  They will be providing information about how to implement a program to comply with the new requirements f...

There are critical things that every loan originator needs to know about secondary marketing to be successful in today's market. Our special guest, Julie Messina of CNN Mortgage, is going to help loan originators understand the secondary markets and how to work with their secondary marketing department in a way that allows them to close more loans. We will be discussing such topics as... What ever...

What do these companies LinkedIn, Facebook, Dropbox and Hulu all have in common? All of them give something of premium value services for free.  This is call "Freemium".  Can this concept that has worked for technology companies work for mortgage lenders?   On today’s broadcast Peter Froberg founder of Freemium.org will explain how the Freemium business model can help you grow your business.  He w...

Today's special guest is Mitch Kider of Weiner Brodsky Kider located in Washington DC.  Here are the topics we will be covering on today's broadcast: What are some of the do’s and don’ts of branch manager compensation? What is the difference between a producing branch manager and a non-producing branch managerWhat are some other recent regulatory issues? CFPB’s proposed rule on internet anonymous...

On today’s broadcast we have as our special guest, Marcia Davies, MBA’s Chief of Staff talking about keys to developing a powerful PARTNERSHIPS between key executives within an organization.  It can make the difference between success, mediocrity or, worse yet, failure!   When you examine the anatomy of strong LEADERSHIP, you find powerful PARTNERSHIPS. No better example of this than our own trade...

The best selling book, Good to Great by Jim Collins, is about getting the right people “on the bus” and getting the wrong people “off the bus”... the "bus" being your company/organization.  This is essential to having healthily functional company/organization.  But many  struggle to correctly identify which ones are the "right ones" and differentiate them from the "wrong ones”.   Whether a company...

Created BY mortgage professional FOR mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute radio program hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken. Joining the program each week is Joe Farr with a MARKET UPDATE, Alice Alvey providing a LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Paul Muolo of Inside Mortgage Finance giving a quick MTG NEWS HEADLINES update, Andy Schell (a/k/a "The Profit Doctor") providing tips...

YOU HAVE GOT TO LISTEN TO THIS BROADCAST.... We are honored to have as our special guest on this broadcast renowned speaker and author, Larry Winget.  Larry's tough love message of "Shut up, stop whining and get a life" is exactly what our industry needs, especially at this time, which is why David Lykken invited him to be on this broadcast.  No questions that our industry has gone through and sti...