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March 2026
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Mar. 2: Commercial for LOs, HELOC, AI/compliance, eNote products; skiing & AI events/training; rates initially rise on war news

In what seems to be the blink of an eye we’re down two months of 2026, and by most accounts they were decent for lenders and vendors. Here in Ft. Lauderdale at the Lenders One Summit, the talk in the hallways, like that at several recent conferences, is centered around a handful of topics, M&A being one of them, and the desire for companies to control the “funnel.” STRATMOR’s Garth Graham, who resides nearby, last night told me that STRATMOR has a full complement of buyers and sellers and we discussed the Rocket/Compass deal and its relation to the Rocket/Redfin deal.

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