Collaborating Within the Network & Creating Deeper Connections

The Mortgage Collaborative offers a number of great networking opportunities throughout the year for our members to engage with one another.  From our Conferences to our Collaboration Labs, TMC members truly appreciate the ability to connect with their peers and collaborate on the important issues facing the mortgage industry. In order to create even more connections and opportunities to collaborate for our members, we've developed several working groups. These groups bring together members for regularly scheduled conference calls with subject matter experts to help participants grow in their professional development. Our current working groups are listed below with additional groups being added soon. 

​To view the current schedule of planned working group calls, visit our Member Events Calendar.

​​Community First Working Group
Our Community First Working Group brings together those within the network working towards the common goal of affordable lending. Formerly known as our CRA Working Group, the new name - selected by our lender members - more accurately reflects our discussions, which have been expanded to loop in more independent mortgage bankers, continue to serve the CRA officers and community development managers from our community banks.

​​Women’s Networking Group
Our Women's Networking Group includes both lender members and preferred partners and discusses a variety of topics centered around supporting the continued development and advancement of women within the mortgage industry. 

​Servicing Working Group
Our Servicing Professionals Working Group centered around ongoing collaboration on the challenges facing the servicing industry today and how our members are addressing them. 

Marketing Working Group
Our Marketing Working Group is comprised of marketing professionals from within our lender member and preferred partner network. This group helps participants garner new ideas, discuss opportunities and challenges in mortgage marketing, and connects them with subject matter experts within the multifaceted discipline of marketing. 

Capital Markets Working Group
We've developed this working group to connect, assist and offer educational resources and market insights to our members within the Secondary Markets sector.  Through focused networking and collaboration, we are aiming at reviewing the key elements that will impact your organizations bottom line from lock desk policies and procedures, to best practices, risk management and beyond. ​

Operational Excellence Working Group
The Operational Excellence Working Group operates as an outlet for operational employees from our lender member network to share insights, collaborate and network with others in similar roles as well as share information about processes and vendors used in daily operations.  While sharing information on best practices and success stories, our lender members’ focus is on being stronger together.  

Human Resource Professionals Working Group
Our Human Resource Working Group is comprised of human resource professionals within our lender member network.  This TMC Group is one of the only forums that exists specific to HR professionals in the mortgage industry. Focus of the group is meeting and networking with people in similar roles, sharing ideas, and discussing timely and relevant topics to human resources.

​CFO Working Group
Our CFO working group is designed exclusively for chief financial officers and financial managers from our lender member firms. This working group focuses on growth strategies, budgeting, mergers and acquisitions and other issues challenging today’s CFO. This forum enables participants to discuss perspectives and experiences, receive immediate feedback from their peers, and explore best practices within our network.

​Technology Working Group
This Working Group provides a discussion forum for our lender members to discuss topics of mutual interest related to advancement and utilization of technology within their company. Participants of this group are typically CTOs, CIOs, system administrators and anyone with an interest in promoting technology initiatives within their company. 

Looking to get involved? Contact your Member Benefits Advocate!