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Articles by Mitchel Kider
Security Risk: Fraudulent Closing Transfer Instructions Stealing Mortgage Pay-Offs
By Ted Claypoole and Dominic Panakal Womble Bond Dickinson The past decade has seen the growth of an especially painful and pernicious type of fraud. Criminals have been inserting themselves into the middle of real estate closings, sending believable money transfer instructions to the buyer’s bank or the escrow agent, and absconding with the money. This money was supposed to pay off the remainder of the seller’s mortgage, and has the potential to affect any mortgage banker.
Future State — A Long Lead Time to Partial Nirvana - Mortgage Banker Magazine
In the last month’s issue of The MORTGAGE BANKER Magazine I laid out a plan for Mortgage QC adapting to the digital state. Digitization enables proactive, profitable, and machine powered QC. However, I make the case that no amount of technology allows crossing the bright line fundamentals of independently validated credit decisions.
No – Not Everybody Is Doing It - Mortgage Banker Magazine
By Mitchel H. Kider In more than three decades of advising the industry, one thing I never fail to hear is, “well everybody else does it, so it must be allowed.” In other words, my business is compliant because I’ve seen other companies doing the same thing. While copying others may be tempting to save on legal and compliance costs in the short term, the unfortunate reality is that simply doing what you perceive your peers are doing will cost you more in the long run.
Baseball Scandal Highlights Compliance Lessons For Banks
Law360 (January 17, 2020, 2:50 PM EST) -- The Houston Astros won their first World Series title in 2017 and came close to repeating in 2019, winning three straight away games before ultimately losing in game seven. Their place in the annals of the American pastime has been marked with an asterisk, however, because they used a camera to steal signs from visiting teams throughout the 2017 season and into 2018.
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