Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  He is an industry thought leader, technology evangelist, specializes in delivering better borrower experiences.  Please help me welcome Tim Nguyen, Co-Founder & CEO at BeSmartee where we discuss:

🎙Tim's background in mortgage technology?

🎙What are some of the challenges that lenders are facing today?

🎙Importance of delivering a great borrower experience?  and How?

🎙What is technology’s role in making that happen.

🎙What’s new at BeSmartee?  (Acquistion)

🎙What do you see on the horizon for 2022?

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  He is an industry thought leader, leading originator, coach & mentor, business development expert.  Please help me welcome Grant LaViale, Area Manager Caliber Home Loans

🎙How did you get started in the mortgage business?

🎙What are some of your big take aways from 2021?

🎙What are some of the biggest challenges that borrower are facing today?

🎙What is technology’s role in delivering a better borrower experience?

🎙Importance of coaching and mentoring?

🎙Let’s discuss the importance of building a dynamic culture?

🎙What do you see on the horizon for 2022?

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  She is an industry thought leader, a Certified Mortgage Banker, expert at industry engagement, Realtor.  Please help me welcome Faith Murphy, Agent Success Manager Go Mortgage in this episode we discuss:

🎙How did you get started in the mortgage business?

🎙What are some of your big take aways from 2021?

🎙What are some of the biggest challenges that agents are facing today?

🎙The power of engagement and the use of video

🎙What is technology’s role in delivering a better agent & borrower experience?

🎙What do you see on the horizon for 2022?

Here is the link to the upcoming webinar that Faith mentioned during the podcast https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vn_U-tCbQ3aW-QnS3hG1MA

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  He is an industry thought leader, technology evangelist, specializes in automating borrower outreach and streamlining the lending process.  Please help me welcome Nick Rutherford, VP McGlone Mortgage Group

🎙How did you get started in the mortgage business?

🎙What are some of your big take aways from 2021?

🎙Understanding the different consumer direct approaches?

🎙Critical question to ask and understanding regarding implementation?

🎙What are ways that lenders can automate borrower engagement?  Why is that so important?

🎙Talk to me about the technology that makes that happen and important of it fitting within your tech stack?

🎙What do you see on the horizon for 2022? and so much more

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a wonderful guest for you today, a top performing loan officer, he helps real estate professionals market and grow their business, industry thought leader, and just an overall great guy, please help me welcome Jeff Thomas, Senior Loan Officer at Atlantic Coast Mortgage

🎙 For those of our listeners that don’t know you how did you get into the mortgage industry?

🎙What are some of the highlights and trends from 2021 in lending?

🎙What are some of the biggest challenges that loan officers face today?

🎙How important is it to build and foster realtor relationships in today’s market?

🎙What advice would you share with a potential borrower looking to get a loan?

🎙What do you expect in 2022. and so much more.  Listen now.

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  She is an industry thought leader, extremely knowledgeable on the tech and innovation side of the business, an expert in creating customers for life.  Please help me welcome Calla Casanova, Product Marketing at Insellerate

On this episode we discuss:

🎙Calla's background in technology and customer experience.

🎙Her take on live events and virtual events in 2021

🎙With many experts predicting rates to increase and volumes to decline in 2022 how important is creating customers for life for Lenders?

🎙Talked to me about the Insellerate Customer for Life Program

🎙What do you see on the horizon for 2022 and so much more.

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Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have a very special guest for you today.  He is an industry thought leader, social influencer, expert in industry automation, one of the best networkers I know, and dear friend.  Please help me welcome Eric Kujala Vice President, Product Marketing at ICE Mortgage Technology

🎙As the year is winding down are were some of the key take aways for you from 2021?

🎙What are some of the key pain points that lenders are trying to address?

🎙What is on the horizon for 2022?

🎙Let’s talk about ICE Experience conference coming in March

and so much more.

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have an amazing guest for you today.  His Fintech Hunting episodes are some of the most listened to episodes ever.  He is an industry expert, a thought leader, fellow podcaster, and evangelist for educating consumers on their financial health while creating transparency throughout the mortgage process.  Please help me welcome Brian Vieaux, CMB President & COO at FinLocker

🎙Brian welcome back to the show?

🎙Let’s start we just finished a number of LIVE industry events, what were some of your key take-aways?

🎙FinLocker recently published a whitepaper entitled- Can Technology Solve for Inclusion in the Housing Industry and Affect Equitable Wealth Building?

🎙What’s new at FinLocker, top priorities etc

🎙What do you anticipate 2022 looking like for the mortgage industry? and so much more.

Ladies & Gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast we have a very special guest for you today.  She is an industry trailblazer, thought leader, extremely well respected for all that she does for the mortgage industry (not just in California).

· In this episode we discuss: getting started in the mortgage industry.

·  Running an organization like the CMBA during a pandemic.  Explain how you handled conferences, outreach etc..  What role technology played in allowing you to go virtual?

·  The return of LIVE conferences?

·  Mortgage Innovators and why she chose to make it a community rather than just a conference?

·  What President’s Counsel is?

·  What’s in store for the CMBA in 2022?

·  How can people get more information about all of the great things that the CMBA is doing to add value to the mortgage industry and so much more.

Please help me welcome the amazing Susan Milazzo CEO at California Mortgage Bankers Association.  

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to a new episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast.  We have an amazing guest for you today, he is an industry thought leader, he specializes in executive strategy and business operations, is a tech visionary, and just an overall good guy.  In this episode we discuss:

Background in mortgage industry & financial services

🎙 How he got into the mortgage industry?

🎙During the last few years there has been a huge industry-wide push to digitize the mortgage lending process. Where do things currently stand with this effort?

🎙Tech trends/ biggest opportunities to improve mortgage process

🎙What areas of the mortgage origination process offer the biggest opportunities for process improvement?

🎙Tell us about optifunder.

🎙MBA Annual and so much more with the incredible Brian Abbott COO at OptiFunder.

OptiFunder is a Fully-Integrated and Automated Warehouse Management Platform for mortgage originators. OptiFunder was created to optimize where originators should fund every loan. It has since evolved to a fully integrated and automated Warehouse Management Platform. You best-ex your loan sales, now you can best-ex your warehouse funding. Until now, the funding process for independent mortgage originators has been a forgotten part of the origination process. OptiFunder revolutionizes the way originators fund loans to achieve the absolute lowest cost of funds.