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James McMahon, President, JM Bear Advisors

James McMahon

President, JM Bear Advisors

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James McMahon is the President at JM Bear Advisors and offers over 30 years of senior management & senior credit officer expertise in consumer, business, commercial C&I, CRE/DRE & Retail Real Estate lending within the banking, thrift, credit union & consumer finance industry. His expertise is in all direct & indirect loan underwriting, credit policy administration, consumer & commercial credit bureaus, data mining, risk based pricing, call center strategies, product design delivery, pre-screens, marketing, credit scoring, score assisted & judgmental underwriting policy, loan operations, workflow/process streamlining, volume/capacity modeling, loan servicing systems, secondary market & risk/portfolio management. Mr. McMohon has knowledge of many stand alone & enterprise wide automated lending platforms like Fair Isaacs Liquid Credit, APPRO, StreamLend, Provenir, Experien Transact, Capital Steam, DU/Point & a number of core platform systems like OSI (Open Solutions), Symitar (Jack Henry), FiServe, RDS (Rapid Data Systems), Fidelity, AFS & LPS. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2007 - present
President, JM Bear Advisors
2005 - 2007
Senior Vice President Lending & CLO, FINANCIAL PARTNERS CREDIT UNION
2003 - 2005
SVP & Director of Business Banking Lending, CITIZENS BANK
2002 - 2003
VP & Director National Business Lending, WASHINGTON MUTUAL, INC.
1997 - 2002
SVP-Director of Business Banking, Sovereign Bank
1987 - 1997
VP-Regional Credit officer, CoreStates Financial
1983 - 1987
VP Consumer & Business Lending, MALVERN FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK

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Is Real Estate Inventory Finding or Hitting a Bottom?

June 10, 2009

James McMahon, President, JM Bear Advisors

Consulting Management Platform | /news.glgroup.com/CM/Request/Requests.aspx?type=a

1. Does the data from several sources indicate that housing inventory is hitting bottom. 2. What is driving the current market conditions 3. What will drive the market to react from a negative or positive nature

Residential Mortgage Rates Fall Again This Week....Does it Matter ?? What Is the Tipping Point?

May 25, 2009

James McMahon, President, JM Bear Advisors

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This week we saw residential mortgage rates fall even lower for almost all loan programs. However, the question needs to be asked..Does it really matter at this point in time. If rates dropped into the 300 basis point range would there be a rush by the public to buy new or exiting housing stock?

Your Credit Score !!! Ways to Maintain The Best Credit Score Possible

May 25, 2009

James McMahon, President, JM Bear Advisors

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At this point in time it is imperative that every individual spend as much time and take as much effort possible to insure that they have the best possible personal credit bureau score. Regqardless iof what bureau is used (TransUnion, Experiein or Equipfax) and what credit score model is used (FICO...

Institutional Investor Flee's From Bank Of America. Will Others Follow ??

May 25, 2009

James McMahon, President, JM Bear Advisors

Temasek dumps 3.8% Bank of America stake | business.timesonline.co.uk

Is the trend of institutional investors leaving BoA as well as well as other larger FI's tell a story of things to come? What is the motivation behind these moves? A lack of faith in BoA strategies ? Concerns about capitol? Are more loan losses that are still predicted to come in the 2nd through 4th...

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