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Guest perspective: Mortgage industry at a crossroads

Co-written by Jillayne Schlicke
Inman News®

The president of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers made a speech before Congress on March 27, arguing that "NAMB remains opposed to any proposed law, regulation or other measure that attempts to impose a fiduciary duty, in any fashion, upon a mortgage broker or any other originator." NAMB's president goes on to explain why he thinks mortgage brokers "should not, and cannot, owe a fiduciary duty to a borrower." 

He makes the following argument: "The consumer is the

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