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MBA’s Broeksmit on Trump orders, AI and mortgage affordability

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“Just when I think things are falling in place, another wild card arrives,” Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) president and CEO Bob Broeksmit said Tuesday morning at ICE Experience’s X26 annual mortgage conference.  In a conversation with ICE Mortgage Technology President Bob Hart that spanned recent executive orders, mergers and acquisitions, and artificial intelligence, Broeksmit admitted […]

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FirstHome IQ, MBA partner on loan officer advocacy on Capitol Hill

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FirstHome IQ, a nonprofit focused on first-time homebuyer education and financial literacy, announced Thursday that it’s teaming up with the Mortgage Bankers Association to bring a coalition of loan officers to Washington, D.C., for the MBA’s National Advocacy Conference in April. The initiative aims to have at least one LO from every state advocating together

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Single-file credit proposal reignites debate over savings vs risks

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A proposal to replace the longstanding tri-merge credit report with a single-file model has reignited debate over borrower costs and systemic risk, placing trade associations on opposing sides. Supporters argue a single pull would encourage more predictive credit data and reduce systemwide costs without materially increasing risk in some cases, noting that mortgage servicing rights

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MBA’s Broeksmit says credit bureau trade group “gaslit” mortgage industry

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Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) President and CEO Bob Broeksmit took the stage at the trade group’s IMB26 Conference in Florida to say that its members and he himself have “just been gaslit by the trade association that represents the credit bureaus.” The MBA has proposed that lenders submit a single-bureau credit pull for loans sold

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TransUnion pushes back on single-pull mortgage credit proposal

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Credit bureau TransUnion is pushing back against the idea of replacing the current tri-merge mortgage credit model with a single credit pull, arguing that the shift would increase systemic risk and restrict access to credit. The conclusion comes from a TransUnion study released during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s Annual Convention and Expo, as the

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MBA’s Bob Broeksmit celebrates legislative victories in 2025

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Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO Bob Broeksmit on Monday called 2025 a “historic year” for the trade group, highlighting major legislative and regulatory victories during his opening address Monday morning at the association’s Annual Convention and Expo in Las Vegas. Broeksmit shared with the audience that the MBA helped shape roughly 10% of all

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MBA’s Bob Broeksmit sees risks in merging Fannie and Freddie

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Amid recent reporting that President Trump is weighing a $500 billion stock offering for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that he might be considering a merger of the two mortgage giants, Mortgage Bankers Association‘s CEO and President Bob Broeksmit authored a blog post highlighting the benefits of having two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). In his

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Trade groups applaud Jonathan Gould’s confirmation to OCC

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On Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jonathan Gould as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in a 50-45 vote. The confirmation marks another Trump administration appointee who supports more lenient oversight of the banking sector and a more welcoming stance toward cryptocurrency. Gould previously held roles at the OCC during

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Mortgage rates remain close to 7%, but there are positives for housing

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Mortgage rates rose in the past week, but even as they remain close to 7%, there’s little evidence to suggest they’ll move much higher and further constraint housing affordability. On Tuesday, 30-year conforming rates averaged 6.93% while 15-year conforming rates averaged 6.76%, according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center. In comparison, these figures stood at 6.88%

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MBA’s Bob Broeksmit: ‘The CFPB is listening’ to industry concerns

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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) highlighted the deregulatory efforts of the Trump administration at its Secondary and Capital Markets Conference in New York this week, including work at the CFPB. But on the topic of releasing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) from conservatorship, MBA president and CEO Bob Broeksmit said he isn’t expecting action anytime soon.

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