Chris Milner Visits with Dean Georgette Phillips of Lehigh University
This week, Oakleaf President and CEO, Chris Milner, met with Georgette Phillips, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University, his alma mater. While in town to speak at an alumni event, Dean Phillips stopped by the Oakleaf office to meet Chris and discuss his tenure on the Lehigh College of Business […]
Oakleaf Group Goes on Underwriter Hiring Spree
Jacob Gaffney, HousingWire The current hiring atmosphere in the mortgage market is certainly a volatile one. Many mortgage lenders and servicers are cutting staff here and there, moving around personnel, etc. in order to keep up with the shifting sands of this rising interest-rate environment and greater innovations in automated lending services. On the other […]
Oakleaf’s Analytics Execution Framework
Oakleaf Group brings to our clients our proprietary Analytics Execution Framework, developed over the last decade to optimize analytic business processes at financial institutions and regulators. The execution framework ties together all necessary components to execute analytic processes in an efficient and controlled manner.
Reg AB II: Shelf Offerings Disclosure – Does More Data Yield a Clearer Picture of RMBS or PLS Markets a Year After New Regulations?
On August 27, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted the final version of revisions to its Regulation AB, in so-called Reg AB II. With a tiered effective date of November 23, 2015 for new Forms 10-D and 10-K, and a more granular loan-level disclosure schedule (in xml format) due after November 23, 2016, compliance has been […]
Impact of CECL on Bank Capital and Earnings
There has been much focus (and rightly so) on modeling of the loan loss reserve under the new CECL standard. Less attention has been paid to the impact from CECL on a bank’s capital and earnings.
Oakleaf President & CEO Chris Milner’s Inaugural Blog
I have heretofore avoided blogging in a way that I hope is natural to someone of my generation. I grew up when computing was still a novelty, and though I personally enjoy all the new gadgets that technology is making available, I have stopped short of Instagramming and Twitter. And blogging… until now.
Appeal denied to overturn $839 million RMBS award
Plaintiffs win – Defendants Nomura and RBS tried unsuccessfully on appeal to prove the mortgage / bond losses were attributable to the broader financial crisis in 2008.