MCT and Freddie Mac Webinar: Current Economic and Housing Outlook, Affordable Lending Strategies and Technology Solutions
This webinar from October 5th has concluded. Please view the recording below.
Are you interested in learning more about the current market outlook and how to identify affordable lending and potential mortgage pricing for borrowers?
Learn from Freddie Mac’s Ajita Atreya and Mia Jones, along with MCT’s Paul Yarbrough by watching this webinar recording.
In this webinar, panelists provide a current economic outlook, discuss affordable lending solutions and explain how API integrations are utilized to help our mutual clients identify and price affordable mortgage loan opportunities for borrowers.
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About the Webinar:
In this webinar, Freddie Mac’s Ajita Atreya and Mia Jones, along with MCT’s Paul Yarbrough discuss the current economic outlook, discuss affordable lending solutions and explain how API integrations are utilized to help our mutual clients identify and price affordable mortgage loan opportunities for borrowers.
Topics Include:
- Current economic outlook and housing trends
- Affordable lending creative solutions
- Leveraging API integrations to identify affordable offerings for your borrowers.
About the Webinar Presenters:
Ajita Atreya, Ph.D., Senior Economist, Economic & Housing Research, Freddie Mac
Ajita Atreya is a Senior Economist with the Economic and Housing Research Team of Freddie Mac. As a Senior Economist, Ajita is responsible for research, analysis, and forecasts of the macroeconomy with a special focus on housing and mortgage markets. In 2020, Ajita was named the “2020 Rising Star” by Housing Wire.
Before joining Freddie Mac in 2016, Ajita worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Risk Center where she conducted research on various economic and risk-related issues of natural hazards.
Ajita holds M.S. degree from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.
Ajita Atreya, Ph.D., Senior Economist, Economic & Housing Research, Freddie Mac
Mia Jones, Affordable Lending Manager, Single-Family, Mission and Community Engagement, Freddie Mac
Mia Jones is an affordable lending manager on the Affordable Lending team in the Freddie Mac
Single-Family Mission and Community Engagement division. She utilizes a data-driven approach
to promote awareness, educate industry stakeholders on business solutions, and increase
utilization of Freddie Mac’s offerings to support responsible lending and assist in meeting
affordable lending, community outreach, and CRA goals.
Mia joined Freddie Mac in 2012 and has over 25 years’ experience in sales and servicing in the
mortgage industry. Her focus it to improve access to credit in multi-cultural communities, and
communities of low- and moderate-income borrowers.
Mia Jones, Affordable Lending Manager, Single-Family, Mission and Community Engagement, Freddie Mac
Paul Yarbrough, Senior Director, Head of Client Success Group, MCT
Secondary marketing expert Paul Yarbrough has joined San Diego-based MCT Trading Inc., a mortgage risk management provider offering pipeline hedging, best-executive loan sales and centralized lock desk services, to oversee new client on-boarding, manage the company’s secondary marketing technology and implement necessary solution training.
Yarbrough has 13 years of experience operating in the secondary marketing divisions at Evolve Bank and Trust, Willow Bend Mortgage, Nationstar, Service First Mortgage and Realty Mortgage. Further, Yarbrough has detailed knowledge concerning how to leverage secondary marketing technology to proficiently run capital markets functions. “Paul will play an important role in implementing and training lenders on our secondary marketing technology platform MCTlive!, as well as ancillary solutions,” says Curtis Richins, president of MCT.
Mr. Yarbrough has a BA in Finance from West Texas A&M with a minor in Economics.
