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AmeriCatalyst 2010 is a collaborative peer-to-peer think tank that brings together senior executives from all sectors of the primary and secondary mortgage market life cycle, the regulators who oversee its functionality and stability, and the investors who provide its liquidity, to discuss the globalization of housing finance and its impact on the U.S. market.

Our goal is to turn perceptions of the industry “inside out” by revealing the dynamics of much larger forces that will magnify risk, accelerate instability and therefore require constant adaptations of market structure moving forward. In that context we evaluate the viability and effectiveness of legislative, regulatory, and private proposals to rebuild the current U.S. housing finance system.

AmeriCatalyst 2010 is the continuation of the revolutionary annual EuroCatalyst conference, which began in 2002 by tracing the launch of the euro and efforts to create a single market for financial services across the euro zone. Anticipating that mortgage market integration would be the greatest obstacle to the harmonization process, the event focused on a comparative analysis of the players, products, processes, and practices across European mortgage markets. Its purpose was to illustrate the unique importance of mortgage markets and their role as the epicenter of the global economy, and warn about how the globalization of housing finance, if left unchecked, was likely to rupture the global economic fault line.

EuroCatalyst moved the annual forum to the United States in 2009. The outstanding content of that event, called Distressed Servicing | EuroCatalyst 2009, its compelling dialogue, and the high caliber of its speakers and participants, combined with the creative, entertaining and interactive atmosphere in which it was presented, resulted in unprecedented feedback from more than half of its participants as “the best event they have ever attended”.