Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
  • Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.

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    Matt Strickberger is the managing partner of OnPoint PR and Consulting LLC, a public relations firm that represents lenders, servicers, technology companies and others. He was editor of Mortgage Technology magazine from 1997-2000. If you have comments or suggestions for future columns, email him at mstrickberger@onpoint-pr.com.

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    Creighton joined BBVA Compass in 2010 and initially directed the management of mortgage investment sub-servicing operations for the bank’s loss share portfolio interests with the FDIC. In 2012 he was given management and strategic oversight responsibility for all consumer real estate secured loan servicing functions at BBVA Compass. His functionally broad-based career in banking and financial services spans over two decades and boasts key assignments with a number of industry leading organizations. He has held key domestic and international leadership positions in consumer, small business, and commercial lending, loan servicing and operations, and securities investment management. Immediately prior to joining the BBVA Compass team, Creighton served as First Vice President within the Commercial Loan Services Group at JP Morgan Chase Bank where he played a major role in the post acquisition conversion of the legacy Washington Mutual portfolios.

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    Aurora Marsh is chief executive officer of Rekon Technologies, a Pasadena, Calif.-based provider of advanced lien release, assignment processing and document preparation software for mortgage servicers.

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    Anne Politis is EVP, mortgage fulfillment solutions for ISGN.

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    As CEO, Terry Smith has led Rushmore to 5 years of strong growth in the Residential Mortgage Servicing space. Rushmore has become a nationally recognized high-touch special servicer that is an approved Seller-Servicer with FreddieMac, FannieMae and GinnieMae. Rushmore currently has over 60,000 loans on the platform and is growing, plus is rated by S&P, Fitch, DBRS and Kroll. Rushmore has offices in Irvine, CA, Dallas, TX, and San Juan, PR. Mr. Smith is also Co-Founder and a Senior Managing Director at Roosevelt Management Company, where he is responsible for Capital Markets Operations and Servicing.Mr. Smith formerly worked at Ellington Management Group, where he was a Managing Director. He worked at Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for the residential Alt-A conduit, subprime acquisition due diligence, and residential servicing oversight-analytics. He also worked for C-Bass/Litton Loan Servicing and was responsible for a start-up and management of a 125-person team which performed due diligence, property valuation, and REO asset disposition functions. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was with Bear Stearns/EMC Mortgage Corporation for 12 years and was responsible for a 60-person Capital Markets Operations team.

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    Jeffrey M. Levine is a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Houlihan Lokey. Mr. Levine was previously a Managing Director at Milestone Advisors, where he headed that firm�s national mortgage banking advisory practice. Milestone was acquired by Houlihan Lokey in December 2012. Mr. Levine has extensive transaction experience in the mortgage banking industry and has participated in most of the corporate transactions executed over the past fifteen years, representing a combined servicing volume in excess of $600 billion. Recent notable transactions include: the sale of MetLife�s $70bn residential servicing business to JP Morgan Chase Bank, the sale of MortgageAmerica to HomeTrust Mortgage, the sale of $23bn in Agency MSR�s for the FDIC from AmTrust Bank, the sale of First Horizon Home Loans to MetLife Bank, and the sale of American Home�s mortgage servicing business to WL Ross & Company. Prior to joining Milestone, Mr. Levine was Managing Director of BayView Financial Advisory Services, a boutique investment banking firm specializing in the mortgage banking industry. Mr. Levine has over 25 years� experience in the mortgage banking industry and prior to joining Bayview in 1991, was the manager of mortgage warehouse lending at Southeast Bank, N.A.Mr. Levine has been a guest lecturer at the Mortgage Bankers Association�s School of Mortgage Banking and its Chief Financial Officers and Financial Analysis Conferences, as well as FHLMC�s School of Mortgage Finance. His articles have appeared in national trade publications including Community Banker and Mortgage Servicing News. Mr. Levine received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Florida.

    Mr. Ufberg is a Managing Director at Atalaya responsible for the origination, analysis, and management of private credit investments. Prior to joining Atalaya, Mr. Ufberg was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he was a member of their Special Situations Group. While at Goldman, Mr. Ufberg provided vertical and geographic coverage for the specialty lending group. He also originated and structured middle market investment opportunities with a primary focus on debt transactions between $20-$200mm.Prior to joining Goldman, Mr. Ufberg spent six years at Bernstein Investment Research and Management, where he led all aspects of origination for a private client management team. Prior to Bernstein, Mr. Ufberg was an associate at Dilworth Paxson. Mr. Ufberg earned his BA from Pennsylvania State University and his JD from Villanova University.

    Randy D. Munday is director of collateral services at Indecomm Global Services, a leading business processing outsourcing company based in Edison, N.J. Munday can be reached at rdmunday@indecomm.net�