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Benjamin Reynolds | AMBA President | Native CDFI Lending | @benreynoldsmtg

I'm the Residential Lending Manager at Cook Inlet Lending Center, a Native CDFI in Anchorage, Alaska — and the youngest-ever President of the Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association. I write about what it actually takes to modernize CDFI lending, build a next-generation career in mortgage, and serve communities that most of the industry overlooks. Biweekly. No fluff. From the field.

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The Mortgage Industry Has a Signal Problem

ISSUE 001 Lending Forward Benjamin Reynolds - @benreynoldsmtg The Mortgage Industry has a Signal Program I spent many years as an audio engineer before I ever touched a mortgage application. In recording, there's a concept every producer learns early: the difference between signal and noise. Signal is what you came to hear. Noise is everything competing with it for the same space. The mortgage industry has a noise problem. Every week there's a new hot take about rates, a think piece on...
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I'm the Residential Lending Manager at Cook Inlet Lending Center, a Native CDFI in Anchorage, Alaska — and the youngest-ever President of the Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association. I write about what it actually takes to modernize CDFI lending, build a next-generation career in mortgage, and serve communities that most of the industry overlooks. Biweekly. No fluff. From the field.