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My cat Myrtle never made it to the Great River or Mortgage Innovator’s mortgage conferences, but plenty of people did. Between these May events, the TMBA Annual, the Gathering, Sagent Ignite, and the National Secondary coming up, there’s a lot of meetin’, talkin’, and educatin’. Talk in the halls, somewhat somber but hopeful, revolves around AI, Figure challenging Freddie and Fannie in the first-lien mortgage market by using its blockchain platform, UWM and TWO press releases going back and forth complete with accusations and changing bids (all making for great LinkedIn fodder), a plethora of new tech tools, and volume.

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