In this episode of Lykken on Lending, our guest in the Hot Topic segment is Seth Sprague, Executive Vice President at\xa0PHOENIX.\n\nSeth has over 25 years of mortgage banking experience, with emphasis on the mortgage servicing right (MSR) asset and an in-depth knowledge of MSR modeling techniques, MSR accounting and capital issues and MSR transaction management.\n\nTopics Covered in this Hot Topic Episode\n\n\n1. Various motivations present within the MSR seller and MSR buyers today\n\n2. What's going on in Washington DC and how this can impact the MSRs market\n\n3. Some the strategies companies should consider helping to maintain profitability in 2019\n\nAnd more!\n\nThe first half of the program will start with an MBA Mortgage Minute from Rob VanRaaphorst and then we\u2019ll have a\xa0TMSpotlight\xa0Soundbite from Les Parker\xa0focusing on his\xa0macroeconomic perspective on the economy with a music parody.\xa0Next up is\xa0Joe Farr providing you a rate & market update, Alice Alvey of\xa0Union Home Mortgage\xa0providing a regulatory & legislative update followed by\xa0Allen Pollack giving us a Tech Report\xa0of the latest technology impacting our industry. Then\xa0Andy Schell, a/k/a \u201cProfit Doctor\u201d sharing ideas on how to improve your bottom line.\n\nWant to know more about Seth Sprague?\n\nSeth D. Sprague CMB, EVP of Trading & Analytics, joined PHOENIX in 2013 after more than ten years with SunTrust Mortgage managing mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio valuation process as well as their periodic MSR transactions.\n\nRead more...\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\nIn this episode of Lykken on Lending, our guest in the Hot Topic segment is Seth Sprague, Executive Vice President at\xa0PHOENIX.\n\nSeth has over 25 years of mortgage banking experience, with emphasis on the mortgage servicing right (MSR) asset and an in-depth knowledge of MSR modeling techniques, MSR accounting and capital issues and MSR transaction management.\n\nTopics Covered in this Hot Topic Episode\n\n\n1. Various motivations present within the MSR seller and MSR buyers today\n\n2. What's going on in Washington DC and how this can impact the MSRs market\n\n3. Some the strategies companies should consider helping to maintain profitability in 2019\n\nAnd more!\n\nThe first half of the program will start with an MBA Mortgage Minute from Rob VanRaaphorst and then we\u2019ll have a\xa0TMSpotlight\xa0Soundbite from Les Parker\xa0focusing on his\xa0macroeconomic perspective on the economy with a music parody.\xa0Next up is\xa0Joe Farr providing you a rate & market update, Alice Alvey of\xa0Union Home Mortgage\xa0providing a regulatory & legislative update followed by\xa0Allen Pollack giving us a Tech Report\xa0of the latest technology impacting our industry. Then\xa0Andy Schell, a/k/a \u201cProfit Doctor\u201d sharing ideas on how to improve your bottom line.\n\nWant to know more about Seth Sprague?\n\nSeth D. Sprague CMB, EVP of Trading & Analytics, joined PHOENIX in 2013 after more than ten years with SunTrust Mortgage managing mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio valuation process as well as their periodic MSR transactions.\n\nRead more...