Optimal Blue Podcasts – Optimal Insights & Market Advantage
Optimal Blue Podcasts – Optimal Insights & Market Advantage
Podcast Description
This feed combines both Optimal Blue podcasts, Optimal Insights and Market Advantage, into one convenient podcast feed. Subscribe to this feed to access the weekly Optimal Insights podcast episodes, plus the monthly Market Advantage release.
Optimal Insights is a weekly video series and podcast sharing the latest real-time rate data and essential commentary spanning from originations to capital markets.
The Market Advantage podcast complements the monthly Market Advantage mortgage data report to deliver additional commentary and guest interviews.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers a wide range of topics including real-time mortgage rate data, economic analysis, capital markets commentary, and specific issues like mortgage servicing rights and inflation impacts. Recent episodes featured discussions on mortgage rate fluctuations, GSE reforms, and the effects of economic policies on the housing market, offering practical insights for professionals seeking to maximize profitability.
This feed combines both Optimal Blue podcasts, Optimal Insights and Market Advantage, into one convenient podcast feed. Subscribe to this feed to access the weekly Optimal Insights podcast episodes, plus the monthly Market Advantage release.
Optimal Insights is a weekly video series and podcast sharing the latest real-time rate data and essential commentary spanning from originations to capital markets.
The Market Advantage podcast complements the monthly Market Advantage mortgage data report to deliver additional commentary and guest interviews.
In this week’s episode of Optimal Insights, Jim Glennon and Alex Hebner break down a headline‑driven market week: institutional home‑buyer bans under consideration, a proposed directive for the GSEs to purchase $200B in MBS, and the DOJ’s criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell – all against fresh jobs data and a live rate backdrop (OBMMI ~6.04%, 10‑year near 4.18%). Closing out the market update, they analyze affordability proposals (institutional buying, credit‑card rate caps) and labor trends.
Then Jim, Mike Vough, and Kevin Foley outline mortgage trends to watch in 2026: a steepening yield curve and rising ARM share; the “couch‑cushion effect” for deal structuring (insurance, taxes, HELOCs); evolving mortgage spreads; the rise of specified payups; and non‑QM’s continued expansion.
Optimal Insights Team:
- Jim Glennon, Senior Vice President of Hedging and Trading Operations
- Alex Hebner, Hedge Account Manager
- Mike Vough, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy
- Kevin Foley, Director of Product Management
Production Team:
- Executive Producer: Sara Holtz
- Producer: Matt Gilhooly
Commentary included in the podcast shall not be construed as, nor is Optimal Blue providing, any legal, trading, hedging, or financial advice.
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