Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)

Meetings & conferencesmba's fiscal year 2018, ending september 30, 2018, saw more than 18,484 individual attendees at 19 conferences and meetings that provided attendees with timely information about the economy, business trends, technological innovation and legislative and regulatory changes and prospects. Mba conducted a successful annual convention in october 2017 in denver with 4,650 attendees. The cref/multifamily housing convention & expo was held in february 2018 in san diego with 3,300 attendees. Sponsorship and booth sales remained strong at the mba meetings with 504 companies exhibiting their products and services.in addition to the large annual convention expected from a major Association, mba hosts 4 additional large conferences and expos each year as well as 14 more finely focused special interest conferences. The five large gatherings are the annual convention & expo, commercial real estate finance/multifamily housing convention & expo, national Mortgage servicing conference & expo, technology solutions conference & expo ...

Educationmba education provided training to approximately 12,000 real estate finance professionals during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2018. The training to these individuals was delivered through roughly 400 program offerings consisting of both live and self-paced courses. Student can access training through a mix of classroom courses and workshops, webinars and webinar recordings, resource guides, certification and designation programs, instructor-guided online courses, and web-based self-study courses. The courses cover both the single family/residential and commercial/multifamily real estate finance industries, with content ranging from introductory to advanced concepts. The largest and most time intensive offering is the school of Mortgage banking (somb), which includes three distinct four-day classroom courses delivered several times a year in cities across the country. In this fiscal year, the department trained 1,209 student through 44 somb offerings. In may 2018, mba education also launched a new certification program for single family compliance professionals, called the ...

Advocacy for members and the industrymba continues to be the leading advocate for the entire real estate finance industry both in Washington, dc and in state capitals. In 2018, the Association provided thought leadership on a variety of public policy issues, including proposals for both administrative and legislative gse reform, a white paper on the role of independent Mortgage banks in the housing finance market, and a detailed roadmap for the cfpb to combat "regulation by enforcement." Our legislative accomplishments included providing testimony on capitol hill before the house financial services and senate banking committees, enactment of several industry priorities (both residential and commercial/multifamily) to modernize requests for borrower documentation and streamline timelines for federally insured loans, and education and advocacy on a wide variety of other real estate finance issues. With regard to regulatory achievements, mba submitted comment letters and provided guidance and substantive recommendations throughout the year to ...