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Recap: Market Disruptors, GSE Shakeups, and Insights from MBA Secondary – Key Insights from Optimal Insights | May 27, 2025

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May 21, 2025

Recap: AI Unpacked: Leveraging AI to Transform Mortgage Operations – Key Insights from Optimal Insights | May 19, 2025

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Success With TBA Trading: Managing Counterparties, Executing Efficiently, and Avoiding Pitfalls

Recap Navigating Economic Uncertainty and Rising Delinquencies | Optimal Insights | March 24, 2025
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March 24, 2025

Recap: Navigating Economic Uncertainty and Rising Delinquencies | Optimal Insights | March 24, 2025

Recap Navigating Tariff Induced Market Volatility | Optimal Insights | March 17, 2025
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March 17, 2025

Recap: Navigating Tariff-Induced Market Volatility | Optimal Insights | March 17, 2025

Recap Mortgage Market Trends and Down Payment Assistance with Rob Chrane Optimal Insights | March 10, 2025
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March 10, 2025

Recap: Mortgage Market Trends and Down Payment Assistance with Rob Chrane: Optimal Insights | March 10, 2025

Recap Market Movers | What You Need to Know This Week in the Mortgage Industry Optimal Insights | March 3, 2025
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March 3, 2025

Recap: Market Movers | What You Need to Know This Week in the Mortgage Industry: Optimal Insights | March 3, 2025

Recap Economic Landscape Unpacked | What You Need to Know This Week | Optimal Insights | Feb. 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025

Recap: Economic Landscape Unpacked | What You Need to Know This Week | Optimal Insights | Feb. 24, 2025

Understanding Builder Forward Commitments What You Need to Know This Week | Optimal Insights | Feb. 18, 2025
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February 18, 2025

Understanding Builder Forward Commitments: What You Need to Know This Week | Optimal Insights | Feb. 18, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week Market Data & Federal Policies | Optimal Insights | Feb. 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week: Market Data & Federal Policies | Optimal Insights | Feb. 10, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week Tariffs and AI Developments | Optimal Insights | Feb. 3, 2025
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February 3, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week: Tariffs and AI Developments | Optimal Insights | Feb. 3, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week Impact of CA Fires on Industry | Optimal Insights | Jan. 27, 2025
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January 27, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week: Impact of CA Fires on Industry | Optimal Insights | Jan. 27, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week New OBMMI Mortgage Rate Futures | Optimal Insights | Jan. 21, 2025
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January 21, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week: New OBMMI Mortgage Rate Futures | Optimal Insights | Jan. 21, 2025

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January 16, 2025

Tariffs and Housing: Exploring the Impact of Trade Policies on the U.S. Economy and Housing Market

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January 16, 2025

Embracing Innovation and Preparedness: Optimal Blue’s Blueprint for the Future

What You Need to Know This Week Understanding Jobs, Inflation, and Interest Rates | Optimal Insights | Jan. 13, 2025
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January 13, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week: Understanding Jobs, Inflation, and Interest Rates | Optimal Insights | Jan. 13, 2025

Data Can Make You a ‘Lender for Life’
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January 7, 2025

Data Can Make You a ‘Lender for Life’

What You Need to Know This Week + Conversation with CapitalW Collective | Optimal Insights | Jan. 6, 2025
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January 6, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week + Conversation with CapitalW Collective | Optimal Insights | Jan. 6, 2025

What You Need to Know This Week Looking Ahead to 2025 | Optimal Insights | Dec. 23, 2024
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December 23, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: Looking Ahead to 2025 | Optimal Insights | Dec. 23, 2024

How Rate Sheets Are Evolving With Investor Preferences
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December 19, 2024

How Rate Sheets Are Evolving With Investor Preferences

What You Need to Know This Week Reflections on 2024 | Optimal Insights | Dec. 16, 2024
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December 16, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: Reflections on 2024 | Optimal Insights | Dec. 16, 2024

Five Strategic Advantages When Planning for 2025
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December 11, 2024

Five Strategic Advantages When Planning for 2025

What You Need to Know This Week The Impacts of Tariffs on the Economy and Housing | Optimal Insights | Dec. 9, 2024
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December 9, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: The Impacts of Tariffs on the Economy and Housing | Optimal Insights | Dec. 9, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week Unpacking the 2025 FHFA Loan Limits | Optimal Insights | Dec. 2, 2024
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December 2, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: Unpacking the 2025 FHFA Loan Limits | Optimal Insights | Dec. 2, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week Current State of MSRs and Recapture | Optimal Insights | Nov. 25, 2024
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What You Need to Know This Week: Current State of MSRs and Recapture | Optimal Insights | Nov. 25, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week What are Mortgage Servicing Rights and Why Should Originators Care? | Optimal Insights | Nov. 18, 2024
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November 18, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: What are Mortgage Servicing Rights and Why Should Originators Care? | Optimal Insights | Nov. 18, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week Demystifying Hedging Strategies | Optimal Insights | Nov. 11, 2024
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November 11, 2024

What You Need to Know This Week: Demystifying Hedging Strategies | Optimal Insights | Nov. 11, 2024

Maximizing Lender Profitability Through Value Driven Innovation
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September 13, 2024

Maximizing Lender Profitability Through Value-Driven Innovation

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September 5, 2024

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May 20, 2024

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Best Efforts to Mandatory Spread: Determining the Risk and Reward of Pipeline Hedging

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Advantages of Real-Time MSR Data and the Impact on MSR Valuations

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3 Characteristics of a Quality Mortgage Pricing Data Source

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Taking Loan Pricing From Reactive to Proactive with Real-Time Data

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April 18, 2022

Trusting Your Hedge System in Today’s Volatile Marketplace

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March 29, 2022

Navigating The Risk Of Interest Rate Lock Commitments

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March 15, 2022

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February 15, 2022

4 Concepts to Consider When Refining Your Hedging Strategy

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January 6, 2022

How Will the Latest FHFA Pricing Changes Impact You and Your Borrowers?

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December 23, 2021

Riding the Latest Margin Compression Wave

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October 19, 2021

5 Reasons to Include Broker-Managed Assumptions in Your MSR Valuation