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2011-09-01 | AmeriCatalyst 2011 | Convergence
AmeriCatalyst is pleased to announce this year’s event–AmeriCatalyst 2011 | Convergence: The Globalization of Housing Finance, 10 Years On.
Now in its tenth year, the event, widely considered the most valuable in global housing finance, is a collaborative, peer-to-peer think tank exploring the impact of globalization on all sectors of the housing finance industry.
Focused on education and interaction, the event features candid, thought-provoking dialogue between those on stage and in the audience in a creative and entertaining atmosphere.
In the absence of a single, industry-wide solution for the nation’s housing problems, this year we feature five of the most practical and viable proposals on moving markets forward from different sectors of the industry.
Our theme of “convergence” refers to the delicate state of interdependence in a globalized world which impacts the strategy of all firms involved in the mortgage lifecycle and requires changing the way we think and interact with clients and competitors both locally and globally. As always, our hallmark program begins with a global macroeconomic overview of factors impacting the mortgage industry, including capital flows and funding, and transitions to the most crucial issues of the main sectors of the mortgage lifecycle, with an emphasis on servicing.
For more information, please visit our event home page.
2011-06-27 | Great Debates 2011 | The War Is Over. Will Servicers Survive as the Battle Rages On?
The second installment of the Great Debates in Housing Finance 2011 series took place June 23, and featured Amy Brandt, the CEO of Vantium Capital, and Adam Levitin, Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University, in conversation with Toni Moss.
The trio focused on the ongoing stalemate and implications of competing and conflicting efforts at both state and federal levels to hold servicers accountable for past mistakes and to create requirements that ensure procedural safety and soundness to minimize systemic risk in the future. Specifically, they referred to the OCC consent letters that require astounding operational restructuring, and to ongoing action by state Attorneys General to impose penalties on the largest servicers for failing to follow existing procedural rules in the foreclosure process. While these actions are expected to ultimately lead to the creation of national servicing standards, the political competition of the various initiatives prevent a clear direction for servicers and place the entire industry on hold.
2011-03-30 | Great Debates 2011 | Diving into the Wreck: Sizing the problem and calculating the costs of foreclosure
The annual EuroCatalyst/AmeriCatalyst event is considered to be the best in the global housing finance industry. Provocative, stimulating, challenging, creative and entertaining, the event continues to be the standard by which all others are measured. In the run-up to our ten-year anniversary this autumn, and with the support of Field Asset Services and CoreLogic, we’re bringing our world-class content directly to your desktop in the form of Great Debates 2011, a series of quarterly webalogues on issues that matter.
The first in the series, Diving Into the Wreck: Sizing the problem and calculating the costs of foreclosure, took place March 23 and discussed the discrepancies in numbers given for REO, delinquencies and pending foreclosure in order to calculate the real costs and loss severities of foreclosures. Hosted by Toni Moss, the webalogue featured AmeriCatalyst alumni Laurie Goodman, Paul Miller, and Mark Fleming.
2011-01-11 | AmeriCatalyst 2010: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – A Conversation with Kyle Bass from AmeriCatalyst 2010: Live from Austin.
Toni Moss and Todd Groome sat with J. Kyle Bass, one of the most well respected hedge fund managers and forecasters in the global investment community, on the opening day at AmeriCatalyst 2010 for an hour-long on-stage interview that covered a diverse range of topics, from prospects for housing market recovery to his perspectives on the timing, sequence and magnitude of potential sovereign defaults and debt restructurings.