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Welcome to California MBA's podcast, Connect, our all-new podcast featuring one-on-one interviews with some of the top movers-and-shakers in the mortgage industry.California MBA serves to represent the residential and commercial real estate finance industry before all…
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Do You Really Know Who You're Wiring Money To? | Andrew Liput, Secure Insight | Connect Podcast (opens the original)
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The closing table is where a lender's money, documents, reputation, and borrower relationship all come together. And it's also one of the most vulnerable moments in the entire mortgage transaction. In this episode of Connect, California MBA CEO Paul Gigliotti sits down with Andrew Liput, President and CEO of Secure Insight, for a wide-ranging conversation on wire fraud, closing risk, business email compromise, and what lenders must do before money ever leaves the account. Andrew is an attorney b
Meet Penny: The AI Agent Removing the Back and Forth From Mortgage | Copperlane | Connect (opens the original)
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What if the back and forth that slows every mortgage application — the missing documents, the unanswered questions, the manual follow-ups — could be handled automatically, without replacing the loan officer? In this episode of Connect, California MBA CEO Paul Gigliotti sits down with Athan Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO, and Brianna Lin, Co-Founder and COO of CopperLane AI, for a conversation on what's possible when AI is built specifically for mortgage origination from the ground up. CopperLane's AI
UAD 3.6, AI & the Future of Property Valuation | Kenon Chen, Clear Capital | Connect Podcast (opens the original)
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Appraisal modernization. UAD 3.6. Property data as infrastructure. These aren't back-office compliance topics — they're the next competitive battleground in mortgage. In this episode of Connect, California MBA CEO Paul Gigliotti sits down with Kenon Chen, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Growth at Clear Capital, for one of the most forward-looking conversations on collateral, data, and AI we've had on the show. Kenon has spent more than two decades at the intersection of strategy, produc
The Human Side of Disaster Servicing: Forbearance, Rebuilding & What Must Come Next | Connect (opens the original)
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When a natural disaster destroys a home, the mortgage servicer is one of the first calls a homeowner makes. What happens in those first days and weeks can determine whether a family rebuilds — or falls through the cracks. In this episode of Connect, California MBA CEO Paul Gigliotti sits down with Ron Malik, Senior Vice President of Default Servicing at Dovenmuehle Mortgage, one of the nation's most experienced mortgage subservicers. Dovenmuehle has been an instrumental partner in California MBA
50 Million Millennials Haven't Bought a Home Yet — Here's Why That Matters | Nora Guerra | Connect (opens the original)
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Affordability. Access. Inventory. These words get thrown around constantly — but what do they actually mean for the families sitting in a financial literacy event in Atlanta wondering if they'll ever own a home? In this episode of Connect, California MBA CEO Paul Gigliotti sits down with Nora Guerra, Senior Vice President of Community Lending Solutions at Guild Mortgage, for one of the most inspiring and grounded conversations on affordable homeownership we've had on the show. Nora has spent her
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