Lykken on Lending

• Disparate Impact and Fair Lending: What the New Executive Order Means for Compliance - Legislative Update by Alice Alvey

  This podcast segment covers changes to federal fair lending enforcement under a new executive order. It explores how the rollback of disparate impact standards affects lenders and the ongoing need for clear, consistent compliance policies.------------------------------------------------------------------Alice Alvey, Master CMBVice President Partner Education and Training at Union Home MortgageShe handles development of their World Class Training program designed to support UHM partners and organizational effectiveness.Prior to UHM, Alice served as Senior Vice President at Indecomm leading the Indecomm-Mortgage U division, Internal QA and Compliance and SaaS technologies. Indecomm acquired Mortgage U in 2013, where Alice was President/Co-founder, providing training and consulting since 1996. Prior to MU she served as SVP of Operations at a national bank overseeing operations for wholesale, retail and correspondent from underwriting through servicing, and compliance.She has been in the trenches of mortgage lending operations from application through servicing for over 30 years. Her authoring work in training content, policies and procedures and the FHA/VA Practical guides illustrates her ability to bridge regulatory requirements with day-to-day operations.Alice has been a weekly contributor to the Lykken on Lending show since its beginning in April 2009 and has made her weekly contributions to 450+ episodes!

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• From AI to APIs: What’s Really Driving Mortgage Tech Forward? - Tech Update by Allen Polack

  This podcast segment covers the latest in mortgage tech, from app store lawsuits and accessibility compliance to fraud detection, eClosing adoption, and smarter borrower engagement powered by AI.-----------------------------------------------------Allen Pollack, Tech ConsultantAllen Pollack, a Mortgage & Financial Services Technology Advisor, is a subject matter expert in the mortgage origination process along with software product management and software development.In today’s financial services push to all things Digital, Allen has been helping lenders and financial services solution providers align their digital transformation and technology strategies by removing the human element of risk, and automating processes that drive efficiencies and margins into profits.Over the course of his career, Allen has co-created and developed technology business models that have birthed highly successful, innovative solutions and companies.Allen co-founded and served as CTO of New York Loan Exchange (NYLX), a loan product eligibility and pricing engine (PPE) that made an immediate impact on the industry, scaling the company quickly and forming partnerships with multiple mortgage and financial lending companies. In 2012, Allen was a co-founder of a merger between NYLX and Aklero Risk Analytics that created LoanLogics, A Mortgage Loan Quality and Performance Analytics company. Allen served as CTO where he continued to bring new and innovative product solutions to the market that made a significant impact to mortgage lenders that reduced risk, scaled business channels, and grew profits in a very competitive and highly regulated market.Allen is also is mortgage and finance technology contributor on a weekly live industry podcast, Lykken on Lending, and is launching a new podcast soon to be released, TechStack Radio, dedicated to technology and innovation in Financial Services.

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• Data-Driven Volatility: How Economic Reports Are Steering Bond Markets - Market Update by Matt Graham

  This podcast segment covers a turbulent week in the bond market, as economic data, inflation signals, and tariff uncertainties fueled rising yields and challenged investor expectations ahead of the Fed’s policy update.-----------------------------------------------------Matt began as an originator in 2002. He fell in love with the idea of following MBS in real-time but felt that existing products were only scratching the surface. Thus was born MBS Live in 2007, the first-of-its-kind platform with real-time market data/analysis, and live chat with analysts, traders, and originators around the country. He is currently the Founder and CEO of MBSLive!He's been covering bond/mortgage markets, writing commentary, alerts, and chatting with the live community every business hour of every business day ever since.Matt also serves as the Chief of Operations for mortgagenewsdaily.com, where he is one of the industry's most respected mortgage rate experts, frequently quoted in the media. Mortgage News Daily's rate index is used as the definitive resource on day-to-day mortgage rate averages.He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and son, where he enjoys skiing, fishing, coaching youth sports, playing the guitar, and more DIY projects/hobbies than he'd care to admit.

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• "I Can't Tell You Why" Margins Fell Apart - Macro Market Update by Les Parker

  05-05-2025 "I Can't Tell You Why" Margins Fell Apart--------------------Look at the markets, up all nightTearing our loans apart.Market chaos rips margins. Most hedgers can’t tell their superiors why the margins fell apart, forcing them to manage budgets dangerously.Buyers bought 4.44 in the 10-year yield, leading to a bear trap and reviving the Bulls. Look for a sub-4% in the 10-year yield as it gains momentum. So, our 10-year yield target of 3.60 is back.Every time, hedgers go sideways.Something makes them change the way they trade.Yet, they can’t tell you whyThese views are mine. You can know why at TMSpotlight.com.____________Song: I Can’t Tell You Why (1979) Eagles

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• Protecting Borrower Privacy: The Push to Reform Trigger Leads - MBA Mortgage Minute by Adam DeSanctis

  This podcast segment covers how Congress is moving closer to protecting borrower privacy by limiting mortgage trigger leads, with strong advocacy support from the Mortgage Bankers Association.-------------------------------------------------------------Adam DeSanctis, VP of Communication at Mortgage Bankers AssociationAs a strategic public affairs and communications executive with nearly two decades of experience, Adam has deep expertise in strategy, management, and media relations. He is widely considered to be an expert in a variety of communications, including advocacy, brand, executive, crisis, grassroots, and social media. In his career, he has been the MBA spokesperson on a wide variety of real estate research and advocacy-related issues, promoted MBA research and advocacy efforts to financial, political, and trade industry media and on MBA's social media channels, and secured media opportunities for MBA leadership on key real estate trends and issues, generated media coverage for MBA's research and data on mortgage applications, credit availability, homebuilder applications, mortgage forbearance/delinquencies, commercial real estate originations, and forecasts, and other industry analysis, developed key strategic initiatives for MBA's organizational public affairs plan, media relations and member communications support for mPower, MBA's Opens Doors Foundation and MBA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.

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