Mortgage Industry Trends

It’s strange how history repeats itself.  Recently in a Financial Times article Kamal Nath, India’s commerce and industry minister, was quoted as saying: “’There cannot be any discrimi

The correlation between poor financial performance and “staffing adjustments” has long been a truism for corporate governance.

SBMC was not a large lender, funding perhaps $4 Billion in 2007, nor were they an aggressive lender.

After spending many cumulative years of my 25 year career in foreign locations, I am still bewildered at the outsourcing providers who openly aspire to outsourcing being an entirely offshore arrang

Any marketing expert will tell you that if you advertise more in a down market you can capture market share. Unfortunately, down markets are expert at draining marketing budgets.

One of the most interesting conclusions we reached in our recent report on Mortgage Process Outsourcing was that the processes that lenders could outsource fell generally into three groups.

We’ve all been there – domestic bosses and clients that excel at “kissing up and kicking down.”  Yet some of us have been fortunate to experience those select mortgage individuals who

Let’s face it, the conditions of the financial and mortgage markets are deplorable.

As 2008 approaches we are witnessing ever increasing number of articles addressing “a new world order.”  One

Wachovia, PHH, Citi, Fannie Mae and Indy Mac all reported negative news this week. As the mortgage meltdown continues to unfold, the damage assessment among the nation’s firms is not pretty.