Preferred Partner Headlines: Week of September 19th

Top Headlines
Black Knight: Mortgage Lending Hit 4-Year Low in August with Rate Lock Volume Down 57% YOY
Dart Appraisal Acquires Appraisal Management Company MaxVantage
Optimal Blue, a division of Black Knight: Weekly Market Update - 9/14/22
Mortgage Coach | Sales Boomerang eBook: 2022 Halftime Highlights Report 
Black Knight: July 2022 Mortgage Monitor Report

Thought Leadership
Vice Capital Market's Chris Bennett: Rate-Lock Negotiations Offer a Short-Term Response with Long-Term Consequences 
​iEmergent CEO, Laird Nossuli: Neither Risky or Mysterious, SPCP's are Evidence-Based Lending

Personnel Announcements
Total Expert Appoints Dan Catinella as Chief Lending Officer to Spearhead Mortgage Strategy & Innovation
Rich LaBarca joins Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach as Chief Product and Technology Officer
Fannie Mae Hires Anthony Moon as New Chief Risk Officer

Blogs
OptiFunder Case Studies: Optimized Warehouse Allocation Decisions & Automation for Funding Through Loan Sale
Mortgage Coach | Sales Boomerang eBook: Live Happens - Why Life Alerts is Such a Powerful Tool
Maxwell eBook: 5 Essential Functions of High-Performing Point-of-Sale Technology
Triserv Lender Resource Series: Triserv's Philosophy on Working with Appraisers 
MGIC Hispanic Marketing Resources

Media
(Podcast) Curinos Finsights: The Resurgence of Home Equity
(Podcast) Chrisman Commentary featuring OptiFunder's Jon Rutila on Warehouse Management 
(On-Demand Webinar) MGIC: Playbook for Success in Today's Market: 3 Strategies to Use in Today's "New" Mortgage Market
(On-Demand Webinar) Black Knight Mortgage Monitor July 2022 - Impact on the Mortgage Market
(On-Demand Webinar) Today's Evolving Construction Conversation, a Q&A Forum with Built
(On-Demand Webinar) MGIC: The Fight for Referrals - Two Completely Different Ways to Win

Events
(Webinar) 9/22 at 2PM ET Built: Technology-enabled Inspections Reduce Risk in Loan Management