Lykken on Lending

David Lykken
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Lykken on Lending

Created by mortgage professionals for mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute podcast hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken, and co-hosted by Marc Helm. Joining the program each week is Adam DeSanctis with his weekly MBA Mortgage Minute, Les Parker with his Macro Market Update, Matt Graham with a weekly Market Update, David Kittle with Originations Update, Alice Alvey providing a Legislative Update, Allen Pollack with his weekly Tech Update. The weekly updates are followed by the Hot Topic segment, which is an in-depth discussion about one of the hottest topics related to the mortgage industry. The program can be heard live each Monday at noon central or downloaded as a podcast. Each week thousands of industry professionals have found this to be an effective way to stay up on all that is happening in the mortgage industry. This broadcast is provided to the mortgage industry as a public service compliment of Transformational Mortgage Solutions. We invite you to join us to listen and learn.

  1. Market Shifts, Rocket-Redfin Deal, and AI’s Growing Role in Mortgage Strategy – Commentary on 3/10/2025 Weekly Mortgage Update segment

    18H AGO

    Market Shifts, Rocket-Redfin Deal, and AI’s Growing Role in Mortgage Strategy – Commentary on 3/10/2025 Weekly Mortgage Update segment

    This podcast segment covers the latest mortgage market shifts, Rocket Mortgage’s bold acquisition of Redfin, insights on the future of real estate technology, and how AI is reshaping decision-making in the industry.

    37 min
  2. CFPB Funding Cuts, Compliance Challenges, and the Shift to State Oversight - Legislative Update by Alice Alvey

    1D AGO

    CFPB Funding Cuts, Compliance Challenges, and the Shift to State Oversight - Legislative Update by Alice Alvey

    This podcast segment covers as Congress considers slashing CFPB funding to zero, mortgage industry experts discuss the potential compliance chaos, the shift toward state oversight, and the broader implications for lenders navigating evolving regulations. ---------------------------------------------------- Alice Alvey, Master CMB Vice President Partner Education and Training at Union Home Mortgage She handles development of their World Class Training program designed to support UHM partners and organizational effectiveness. Prior to UHM, Alice served as Senior Vice President at Indecomm leading the Indecomm-Mortgage U division, Internal QA and Compliance and SaaS technologies. Indecomm acquired Mortgage U in 2013, where Alice was President/Co-founder, providing training and consulting since 1996. Prior to MU she served as SVP of Operations at a national bank overseeing operations for wholesale, retail and correspondent from underwriting through servicing, and compliance. She has been in the trenches of mortgage lending operations from application through servicing for over 30 years. Her authoring work in training content, policies and procedures and the FHA/VA Practical guides illustrates her ability to bridge regulatory requirements with day-to-day operations. Alice has been a weekly contributor to the Lykken on Lending show since its beginning in April 2009 and has made her weekly contributions to 450+ episodes!

    5 min
  3. ChatGPT Analyzes Rocket’s Redfin Acquisition: A Game-Changer or Risky Bet? - Tech Update by Allen Pollack

    2D AGO

    ChatGPT Analyzes Rocket’s Redfin Acquisition: A Game-Changer or Risky Bet? - Tech Update by Allen Pollack

    This podcast segment explores using AI-driven insights, this discussion explores Rocket Mortgage’s $1.75 billion acquisition of Redfin, analyzing its strategy to dominate the homebuying process, potential industry shakeups, and the challenges it must overcome to succeed. ----------------------------------------------------- Allen Pollack, Tech Consultant Allen Pollack, a Mortgage & Financial Services Technology Advisor, is a subject matter expert in the mortgage origination process along with software product management and software development. In today’s financial services push to all things Digital, Allen has been helping lenders and financial services solution providers align their digital transformation and technology strategies by removing the human element of risk, and automating processes that drive efficiencies and margins into profits. Over the course of his career, Allen has co-created and developed technology business models that have birthed highly successful, innovative solutions and companies. Allen co-founded and served as CTO of New York Loan Exchange (NYLX), a loan product eligibility and pricing engine (PPE) that made an immediate impact on the industry, scaling the company quickly and forming partnerships with multiple mortgage and financial lending companies. In 2012, Allen was a co-founder of a merger between NYLX and Aklero Risk Analytics that created LoanLogics, A Mortgage Loan Quality and Performance Analytics company. Allen served as CTO where he continued to bring new and innovative product solutions to the market that made a significant impact to mortgage lenders that reduced risk, scaled business channels, and grew profits in a very competitive and highly regulated market. Allen is also is mortgage and finance technology contributor on a weekly live industry podcast, Lykken on Lending, and is launching a new podcast soon to be released, TechStack Radio, dedicated to technology and innovation in Financial Services.

    7 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Bond Market Turbulence: Germany’s Debt Move, Fed Signals, and Inflation Watch - Market Update by Matt Graham

    This podcast segment Market volatility surged last week as Germany’s debt ceiling proposal shook global bonds, Fed Chair Powell signaled economic stability, and all eyes now turn to the upcoming inflation report for clues on the next move. ----------------------------------------------------- Matt began as an originator in 2002. He fell in love with the idea of following MBS in real-time but felt that existing products were only scratching the surface. Thus was born MBS Live in 2007, the first-of-its-kind platform with real-time market data/analysis, and live chat with analysts, traders, and originators around the country. He is currently the Founder and CEO of MBSLive! He's been covering bond/mortgage markets, writing commentary, alerts, and chatting with the live community every business hour of every business day ever since. Matt also serves as the Chief of Operations for mortgagenewsdaily.com, where he is one of the industry's most respected mortgage rate experts, frequently quoted in the media. Mortgage News Daily's rate index is used as the definitive resource on day-to-day mortgage rate averages. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and son where he enjoys skiing, fishing, coaching youth sports, playing the guitar, and more DIY projects/hobbies than he'd care to admit.

    5 min
  5. "Love Potion No. 9" Spills In Europe - Macro Market Update by Les Parker

    4D AGO

    "Love Potion No. 9" Spills In Europe - Macro Market Update by Les Parker

    03-10-2025 "Love Potion No. 9" Spills In Europe ---------------------------- They held their nose; they closed their eyes; they took a drink. Bonds didn't know if it was day or night. They started selling everything in sight. A love fest broke out in Europe for Zelenskyy. Germany’s coalition of election losers hatched a plan to defend Ukraine off the books. Did USAID teach them to hide public money? German investors reacted by selling their 10-year Notes, which caused US rates to consolidate recent gains. Mixed economic news at home and abroad continues to fuel uncertainty. Look for Oil to reach $55 in 2025, supporting mortgage rates in the low 6s by June 30. Trump broke Europe’s bottle of Love Potion No. 9 These views are mine. Break the spell at TMSpotlight.com ------------------------- Song: Love Potion No. 9 (1959)

    1 min
  6. ALCOVA Mortgage Leading with Technology and People with Amy Smith of Alcova Mortgage

    4D AGO

    ALCOVA Mortgage Leading with Technology and People with Amy Smith of Alcova Mortgage

    What makes a mortgage company not only survive but thrive in a competitive industry? People, technology, and culture. In our upcoming LinkedIn Live episode of Lykken on Lending, we’re sitting down with Amy Smith, Chief Lending Officer at ALCOVA Mortgage, to explore how they’ve built a company where top talent stays, innovation drives efficiency, and community impact fuels growth. From their goal of 8-hour loan approvals to gamifying technology adoption, ALCOVA is redefining success in mortgage lending. Join us as we dive into their unique approach to leadership, culture, and cutting-edge automation—you won’t want to miss this!

    30 min
  7. HUD Delays Energy Efficiency Rule: What It Means for Affordable Housing - MBA Mortgage Minute by Adam DeSanctis

    5D AGO

    HUD Delays Energy Efficiency Rule: What It Means for Affordable Housing - MBA Mortgage Minute by Adam DeSanctis

    HUD has announced a six-month delay on its energy efficiency building standards for FHA and USDA-financed new construction, giving policymakers more time to assess its impact on affordable housing and industry concerns. ------------------------------------------------------------- Adam DeSanctis, VP of Communication at Mortgage Bankers Association As a strategic public affairs and communications executive with nearly two decades of experience, Adam has deep expertise in strategy, management, and media relations. He is widely considered to be an expert in a variety of communications, including advocacy, brand, executive, crisis, grassroots, and social media. In his career, he has been the MBA spokesperson on a wide variety of real estate research and advocacy-related issues, promoted MBA research and advocacy efforts to financial, political, and trade industry media and on MBA's social media channels, and secured media opportunities for MBA leadership on key real estate trends and issues, generated media coverage for MBA's research and data on mortgage applications, credit availability, homebuilder applications, mortgage forbearance/delinquencies, commercial real estate originations, and forecasts, and other industry analysis, developed key strategic initiatives for MBA's organizational public affairs plan, media relations and member communications support for mPower, MBA's Opens Doors Foundation and MBA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.

    2 min
  8. Rocket’s Big Move: What Redfin Acquisition Means for the Mortgage Industry

    6D AGO

    Rocket’s Big Move: What Redfin Acquisition Means for the Mortgage Industry

    The Lykken on Lending program will feature our Weekly Mortgage Updates with Adam DeSanctis and his MBA Mortgage Minute, and then Les Parker’s TMSpotlight, a macroeconomic perspective on the economy with a music parody. That leads to Matt Graham of MBS Live providing you a rate & market update, followed by David Kittle, Chief Executive Officer @ The Mortgage Collaborative, to discuss mortgage originations. Then we have Alice Alvey of Union Home providing a regulatory & legislative update, then Allen Pollack giving us a Tech Report on the latest technology impacting our industry. We also have commentaries provided by our Consultants, Bill Corbet and Marc Helm, Senior Executive Partner @ Transformational Mortgage Solutions, talking about Loan Servicing and the “Agencies”.

    53 min
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Created by mortgage professionals for mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute podcast hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken, and co-hosted by Marc Helm. Joining the program each week is Adam DeSanctis with his weekly MBA Mortgage Minute, Les Parker with his Macro Market Update, Matt Graham with a weekly Market Update, David Kittle with Originations Update, Alice Alvey providing a Legislative Update, Allen Pollack with his weekly Tech Update. The weekly updates are followed by the Hot Topic segment, which is an in-depth discussion about one of the hottest topics related to the mortgage industry. The program can be heard live each Monday at noon central or downloaded as a podcast. Each week thousands of industry professionals have found this to be an effective way to stay up on all that is happening in the mortgage industry. This broadcast is provided to the mortgage industry as a public service compliment of Transformational Mortgage Solutions. We invite you to join us to listen and learn.

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  • Creator
    David Lykken
  • Years Active
    2009 - 2025
  • Episodes
    1.4K
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright David Lykken 2023
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