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Articles in Oct, 2008 issue of Mortgage Banking

• A new foundation
  by Janet Reilley Hewitt
• Treasury, FHFA take over Fannie and Freddie
• Rating agencies down-grade AIG; Fed extends $85 billion loan
• Subprime mortgage lawsuits surpass S&L crisis
• HMDA data show decline in overall loans in 2007
• 'Pockets of resilience' despite national home-price decline
• MBA: CA, FL drive increase in record 2q national foreclosure rate
• Mortgage fraud up by 42 percent in Q1
• Dear editor
  by Keith A. May
• Interview: Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski
  by Charles Wisniowski
• The federal rescue of Fannie and Freddie: in a startling weekend turn of events, the federal government took the two giant government-sponsored enterprises into conservatorship. The bold move seems to be a sign of the times
  by Robert Stowe
• New Century Financial: lessons learned: the examiner's final report to the Bankruptcy Court on the demise of New Century Financial Corporation documents some important lessons in corporate governance for mortgage lenders and financial services institution
  by Michael J. Missal
• The future of wholesale lending: the wholesale lending channel is under stress from a variety of forces today. But broker lending is far from dead; instead, the business model it just evolving
  by Matthew Lind
• Q&A with HUD secretary Steve Preston: a brand-new HUD secretary has stepped into the job when much remains to be done to shore up the housing market, implement a massive new housing law and oversee a revived FHA program
• My old Kentucky home: David Kittle, incoming chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association, is on home turf at Churchill Downs. This Kentucky native will be a hard-charging voice for the mortgage business in its bid to restore the industry's reputation
  by Janet Reilley Hewitt
• All's Well at Wells: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Des Moines, Iowa, has twice the brainpower leading the mortgage company with its two co-presidents sharing the executive duties. As a result, Wells is gaining market share while others are wilting
  by Steve Bergsman
• Cornerstone's EDGE: Houston's Cornerstone mortgage may just be the face of the new originator. A midsized independent, it invests in quality loan officers and top-flight technology
  by Marc Laird
• First American Default Technologies launches VendorScape
• Orange County's Credit Union picks MortgageFlex
• Commercial/MF delinquency rates 'up slightly' in Q2
• Industrial market continues to weaken during first half of 2008
• MBA: Q2 commercial/multifamily originations fall
• Apartment demand weakened by financial crisis but holding up in Q2
• U.S. hotel deals fall 81 percent during first half of 2008
• DBBM finances $150 million apartment community
• GE Real Estate funds $63 million loan for three-state portfolio
• FHFA announces support for GSE multifamily finance activities
• David M. Moffett has been named chief executive officer
• Alan H. Fishman has been appointed chief executive officer
• Jay Brinkmann has been named chief economist
• Michael R. Ong has been named executive vice president
• Walter J. Witek Jr. has been named senior vice president
• Dave Widmoyer has been named senior vice president
• Bill Warren, chief compliance officer
• Donna Miller has been named national director. Group. appointed Donna Miller
• Steve Ross has been named area manager
• Patrick Boyle has been named assistant vice president
• Brian Frame, Tracy Green, Lynda Kirkman, Lynn Koscher, Steve Thornley, Cathrine Black, Nicholas Costas, Paul Gawin, Bonnie Kamaris, Rita McTigue and Gary Simmons have been named account managers
• Robbins retires from Wachovia
• Tracking changes in commercial/multifamily property prices
  by Jamie Woodwell
• Long road to recovery
  by Howard Schneider
• 25 worst-performing states by appreciation rate
• Top 25 counties—government lending markets
• Mortgage performance
• Mortgage applications indexes
• Key economic indicators and interest rates
• Banks, thrifts report earnings drain in 2Q
• AIG United Guaranty Mexico approved to begin operations
• FHFA finds q2 home-price growth posts record-setting decline
• How Did We Get Here? How did the American mortgage finance system get from the Great Depression to where it is today? It's starting to feel like we're back where we started
  by Richard K. Green
• Generation gap: looking back over the past three decades, just about everything has changed in the world of mortgage lending. It's not your father's mortgage business anymore
  by Joe Garrett
• ComplianceEase teams with regulators to automate exams
• Ellie Mae adds First American Corelogic's Property Pak
• Brand Mortgage selects Sollen to provide product and pricing
• First American Title Insurance Company chooses iRise
• HUD says multifamily sector 'somewhat mixed' in second quarter
• Commercial real estate credit availability 'much worse'
• Herbert M. Allison Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer, and Philip A. Laskawy has been appointed the non-executive chairman of Fannie Mae
• Jim McMahan has been named executive vice president
• Brenda Goodwin has been named accounting
• Jack McGovern has been named Southwestern regional director
• Mari Beth Pietropaoli has been named national account representative
• Collecting all the interest due on the mortgage
  by Bruce J. Bergman
• Market Performance Gauge
• Best- and worst-performing counties by 3-month and 1-year HPI change
• Housing activity
• OTS, OCC report notes increase in loss mitigation
• The ticker
• Servicer-led solutions provide blueprint in rebuilding U.S. mortgage market
  by Michael J. Heid
• Rental apartment market conditions weaken slightly
• The best advice: get it right
  by Robert D. Yeary
• Michael McShea and Peter Larkin have been named executive vice presidents
• Patti Jones has been appointed assistant vice president
• Mortgage performance
• Mortgage performance
• Three-month vs. 12-month HPI change June 2008 data
• October-December 2008
• Top 25 counties—high-priced lending markets
• LTC seeks bids for national mortgage fraud database
• Mortgage performance

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