Capital Markets Today

Dean Brown, founder and CEO of Mortgage Capital Management joins the broadcast to discuss effective hedging strategies for secondary market professionals during an environment of rising interest rates. Since 1994 Mortgage Capital Markets has effectively helped mortgage bankers maximize profitability, decrease earnings volatility and manage risk.

Phil Laren, Founder of PB Pacific Partners, joins the broadcast to discuss the risks and benefits of acquiring and/or retaining mortgage servicing rights. Mr. Laren has been involved in mortgage banking capital markets and risk management for over 25 years. He is well known for developing financial models with applications to servicing value, pipeline hedging, optimal use of options for both servicing and pipeline hedging, as well as profitability and best execution models.

Thomas Showalter, Chief Analytics Officer of Digital Risk, joins Mortgage Markets Today to discuss interest rates and identifying risk attributes to predict loan performance. Thomas and his development team leverage the extensive Digital Risk database to create unique and powerful analytics with an extensive focus being placed upon applications that determined the most appropriate, loss mitigating treatment for distressed mortgage loans.

Frank Pallotta, Managing Partner of the Loan Value Group, discusses high risk borrower outreach and HARP origination. Loan Value Group's mission and focus is to offer a large-scale, low-cost, turn-key operating platform to positively influence consumer behavior on behalf of residential mortgage owners and servicers.

Tommy A. Duncan, Chief Executive Officer of Quality Mortgage Services and Certified Mortgage Technologist, discusses the most common loan defects in todays orignation landscape. Quality Mortgage Services is a company that specializes in mortgage loan audit reviews for compliance and quality control.

Michael Griffith, President  & CEO of FCI Lenders Services, discusses the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, a controversial piece of legislation that has far reaching implications for investors, servicers and foreclosure Trustee. This is required listening if you own or are considering purchasing loans in California. FCI was founded in 1982 and has over 2.3 billion in assets under management.

Ron D'Vari, CEO and Co-Founder of NewOak Capital joins the broadcast to discuss NPLs, Interest Rates and REO to Rental institutional investor strategies.  Also, borrowers flocking to ARM loans? Ron was formerly with BlackRock where he was Head of Structured Finance Business.  He also helped to set up Penny MAC, a mortgage company and was lead portfolio manager for BlackRock’s Mortgage Investors, a distressed securities fund

In this special edition of the broadcast, we will dissect Bernanke's speech and the following market turmoil that created the highest one week increase in interest in 30 years.   We will discuss the  impact on interest rates, housing values, credit availability and the default industry.

Thomas McOsker is President and Co-Founder of BloxTrade. BloxTrade is a online market place built for listing, trading, analyzing and servicing esoteric asset classes that trade in pools or blocks. As institutional Investor interest peaks, Thomas discusses the asset class, the investors that a drawn to this space and the evolution from the old buy and hold to the new liquid trading strategies.

Brent Nyitray, Director of Capital Markets joins the broadcast to analyze today’s speech by Ben Bernanke.  Brent provides insight even as the market tumbles and bonds get hammered.  Will QE end?  Are increased interest rates and professional investors leaving the real estate market a sign of normalization and better days?