The mortgage industry's digital transformation is revolutionizing the home buying experience and upending the status quo for lenders and servicers. The Digital Mortgage Conference is the premiere event exclusively dedicated to these developments, bringing over 1,500 professionals to Las Vegas on Sept. 17-18 for keynote speakers, panels and the main attraction: live product demos showcasing the latest mortgage innovations.
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Kenneth Byrd serves as Vice President and Head of Protection New Business Operations for Protective Life Corporation, where he is responsible for leading telelife, submit, case management, policy issue, 1035 exchange, new business accounting, exception handling, compliance, customer guides, and policy revisions. Byrd, a 20-year financial industry veteran, oversees more than 250 teammates as well as third-party vendor relationships. With a budget of over $20 million, he develops and authors strategic plans, works to improve customer and distributor experiences, and delivers significant cost savings. Byrd achieved a bachelor's degree in accounting and management information systems as well as his MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
August 29
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Drake Bank in Minnesota is working with the fintech B Generous to test whether installment loans can help bring in larger donations to nonprofits.
August 29
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The cybersecurity crisis arising from super-fast computing is approaching more quickly than the industry and its regulators may realize.
August 29
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech in Jackson Hole reaffirmed that the end of accommodative monetary policy is coming to an end. This is a boon to banks, but only those that have managed their balance sheets just right.
August 29
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Matthew Mittelsteadt is a visiting research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
August 29
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More than 30,000 of the bank's customers have already updated their credit cards to show their chosen name instead of their legal name, and the bank expects a similar response from debit card users.
August 29
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A decade ago, Think Finance partnered with Native American tribes in an effort to avoid state interest-rate caps on consumer loans. After the company's legal woes finally ended this month, court documents shed light on its rapid rise and steep fall.
August 28
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The Houston banks have set a new deadline of Nov. 1 to finalize their deal, marking yet example of banks' facing a longer-than-expected decision process by the Federal Reserve. CBTX's chief said last month the wait has been "very frustrating."
August 26
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The Bank Policy Institute and the American Bankers Association asked acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu to deny Sen. Elizabeth Warren's request to rescind Trump-era cryptocurrency guidance.
August 26
