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FIVE STAR
GOVERNMENT
FORUM
The fourth annual Five Star
Government Forum brought
together leaders in the housing and mortgage servicing
industries with government representatives to interact,
engage, and drive progress. Leading mortgage servicers,
lenders, government agencies, regulators, lawmakers,
and service providers assembled at the historic St. Regis
Hotel in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2013. Thought1.
leaders included Genger Charles of HUD, who spoke about
balancing risk; Allen Jones of Riskspan, who led a session
about the secondary mortgage market; Craig Nickerson of
National Community Stabilization Trust, who discussed
funding and community stabilization; Brian Montgomery
of the Collingwood Group, who led a session on regulation
and legislation; and Jack Konyk of Weiner Brodsky Kider
PC, who discussed conforming to changing compliance
standards. The keynote luncheon featured presentations
from Jed Kolko of Trulia.com and Ivy Zelman of Zelman
& Associates and ended with a message from U.S.
Congressman William H. Long.
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1. Craig Nickerson of National Community
Stabilization Trust moderates a panel on Pairing
Public and Private Funding. 2. Attendees of the
Five Star Government Forum in session. 3. Ed
Delgado, CEO and president of the Five Star
Institute, emceed the event. 4. Steven Horne
and Eshna Ghosh of Wingspan Portfolio Adivors,
a sponsor of the Government Forum, were in
attendance. 5. The Structuring Tomorrow's
Secondary Mortgage Market session was led by
panelists Thomas E. Heinemann of HUD, Terry Carr
of Ginnie Mae, the Department of Veterans Affairs'
John Bell, and Treasury's Darius Kingsley. 6. Jeff
Jaffee of CitiMortgage engaged as a panelist in
the Conforming to Today's Code of Compliance
session. 7. Moderator Brian Montgomery of
The Collingwood Group led the What's Old Is
New Again session, featuring Treasury's Laurie
Maggiano, HUD's Ivery Himes, and the CFPB's
Mitch Hochberg.
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