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Study Group: Subprime Mortgage Experts (US)

Council Members in this Study Group: 531

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Paul Equale, President, EQUALE AND ASSOCIATESPaul Equale

President
EQUALE AND ASSOCIATES
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Paul Equale leads Equale & Associates, where he consults on legislative, regulatory and headline risk associated with business, legal and financial services issues in Washington DC. His specialty areas include financial services legislative and regulatory reform, including the consumer financial protection...

Robert Mochwart

FormerChief Risk & Credit Officer
Popular Financial Holdings, Inc
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Robert Mochwart is a dynamic and strategy-minded leader. Until March 2008, he was the Chief Risk and Credit Officer for Popular Financial Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of the $44 billion financial holding company Popular, Inc. Popular is a diversified financial services provider with operations...

Raymond Natter, Partner, Barnett Sivon & Natter, P.C.Raymond Natter

Partner
Barnett Sivon & Natter, P.C.
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Raymond Natter is Partner at Barnett Sivon & Natter in Washington, DC, where he specializes in representing financial institutions before the U.S. Congress and federal regulatory agencies. Previously, Mr. Natter served as Deputy Chief Counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),where...

Brian Hershkowitz, Chief Executive Officer, Maximum Value GroupBrian Hershkowitz

Chief Executive Officer
Maximum Value Group
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Brian F. Hershkowitz is Chief Executive Officer of Maximum Value Group, a consulting firm focused on providing advice to private equity and other market participants in the area of banking and mortgages. Prior to starting his own practice in Dec 2006, he was EVP at Fidelity National Information Services...

Joseph Smith, II

President & CEO
Default Mitigation Management
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Joseph Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Default Mitigation Management (DMM), an industry leader in mortgage workouts. DMM works with both borrower and the lender to resolve defaulted loans. The firm has worked or is working with the following lenders: US Bank, Kentucky Housing,...

Douglas Rossbach, Partner, Rossbach ConsultingDouglas Rossbach

Partner
Rossbach Consulting
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Douglas Rossbach is Founding Partner of Rossbach Consulting, which advises investment companies, insurers and participants of the residential mortgage industry. He is also CEO of Hillhouse S.A., a real estate holding company. Prior to founding Rossbach Consulting, Mr. Rossbach held several positions...

Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLCBill Bradway

Founder & Managing Director
Bradway Research, LLC
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Bill Bradway is the Founder and Managing Director of Bradway Research. Previously, Mr. Bradway lead the Banking Practice at Financial Insights, a strategic advisory firm to banks, insurance companies, asset management firms, securities brokerages, and diversified financial institutions globally. The...

Anthony Catanach, Jr., Director, DI2 Associates, LLCAnthony Catanach, Jr.

Director
DI2 Associates, LLC
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.What is a Premium Council Partner?|Premium Council Partners are leading Professional Service Firms that work exclusively with GLG.

Anthony H. Catanach Jr., PhD, is a Professor in the Strategic Initiatives Group of the Villanova University School of Business. He also is a Director at DI2 Associates, a Pennsylvania based accounting and reporting consulting firm. Dr. Catanach has expertise in the areas of business risk management...

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GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts (?)

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New Valuation Model Changes Everything

October 6, 2009

Test of Value Scout Validates Accuracy | www.dsnews.com

Value Creation Institute recently announced that its patented system for asset valuation, ValueScout, was found to be 98 percent accurate in prediction of loan default when tested with actual data. The test was conducted using loan servicing data with a previously known outcome. Anyone considering...

Lower Rates, While Great, Do Little For Jumbo Lending

October 1, 2009

Joseph Chatham, President, Chatham Mortgage Partners Inc.

Real Estate Outlook: Mortgage Rate Dip Impacts Housing | realtytimes.com

The Realty Times article reflects the positive effects of lower interest rates on mortgage originations and home purchases, but fails to note the failure of said rates to transcend the conforming/conventional markets into the jumbo markets. The implications of this failure are that many homeowners...

It is all in the "W"

September 28, 2009

Joseph Chatham, President, Chatham Mortgage Partners Inc.

KB Home Loss Narrows on Fewer Write-Downs | online.wsj.com

KB, a lower cost builder, is benefitting from the perception that we have hit the bottom. We have not. Thus, the peak of the inside of the "W" is about to wane.

Round II: Coming to a neighborhood near you

September 25, 2009

Joseph Chatham, President, Chatham Mortgage Partners Inc.

"Option" mortgages to explode, officials warn | www.linkedin.com

While a very general description of the Pay Option ARM disaster that is looming, the Reuters article is dead-on in two conclusions: many more homes will be hitting the market over the course of the next two and one-half years and that the mortgage plague that started with the subprime crisis will be...

Growing Losses at FHA

September 4, 2009

Loan Losses Spark Concern Over FHA | online.wsj.com

While the FHA's market share has skyrocketed since the real estate bubble burst, the FHA has also been facing rapidly increasing losses that are likely to outstrip its reserves.  A taxpayer bailout is looming.

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Residential Mortgage Origination
  • Consulting Firm
  • Sub-prime Full Service Mortgage
  • Full Service Residential Mortgage

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

  • Loan Officer
  • Director
  • Sales Manager
  • President
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Principal
  • Consultant

GLG Live Meetings with this Study Group's Leading Experts (?)

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GLG Webcast: Cash Flow Manipulation- July 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM EDT/7:30 AM PDT

July 28, 2009

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July 30, 2008

GLGi: Cash Flow Manipulations

July 25, 2007

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