Articles from The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) announced a transformative partnership with Newrez, a national leader in wholesale lending, to provide AIME members with exclusive advantages designed to grow their businesses and protect their client relationships. As part of the collaboration, Newrez joins AIME as a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing its commitment to the mortgage broker channel.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) celebrated a groundbreaking moment with the resounding success of its seventh annual Fuse National Conference, held for the first time outside of Las Vegas, in the vibrant city of New Orleans. Despite the challenges posed by Hurricane Francine, all main stage programming proceeded without disruption, including the rescheduled WMN Summit, which achieved resounding success on Friday morning.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME), the leading membership organization representing the independent mortgage broker industry, today announced the appointment of Jonathon Haddad as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Haddad is joining the AIME staff immediately as CEO and will assume the Chairman role on April 1, 2024, when current Chairman and CEO Katie Sweeney steps down to become the full-time CEO of the Broker Action Coalition (BAC).

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME), the leading membership organization representing the independent mortgage broker industry, announced today the Broker Action Coalition (BAC) will form an additional leadership team to continue its successful legislative efforts. AIME and BAC will work in tandem to support the needs of the broker community, with renewed focus on their areas of impact – AIME’s business support and education for brokers and consumers and BAC’s legislative, regulatory, and industry advocacy campaigns focused on Capitol Hill.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) is thrilled to announce the resounding success of its sixth annual national conference, Fuse, which brought together thousands of independent mortgage brokers, industry leaders, and experts from across the nation, despite the current state of the housing market. This year's event, held at The Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, had 2,700 registered attendees and showcased the continued growth and innovation within the independent mortgage broker community.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME), a non-profit trade association supporting independent mortgage professionals, announced its 2023 sponsors, which include sixteen wholesale industry partners committed to the growth of the broker channel and local mortgage originators.

A huge victory for independent mortgage brokers – the Florida Hometown Heroes Down Payment Assistance Program has been amended to include Third-Party Originators. Over 10,000 independent mortgage brokers in Florida now have access to offer loans under the program, due to the joint advocacy efforts of the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) and United Wholesale Mortgage, the number one mortgage lender in America.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME), the only trade association specifically for independent mortgage brokers, launched its educational mortgage website today geared toward consumers and future homebuyers. The website was announced last month during the association’s national conference, Fuse, in AIME CEO Katie Sweeney’s keynote address to a captive audience of over 3,000 wholesale mortgage professionals.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME), a non-profit, national trade membership association created exclusively for independent mortgage brokers, announced its first class of trainees for the Ignite Mortgage Career Training Program and the inaugural class of recipients for the Spark Small Business Grant aimed at recruiting a new generation of qualified and diverse professionals from retail to become independent mortgage brokerage owners and trained support staff in the wholesale channel.