The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has conducted its annual State of the Real Estate Finance Industry Media Conference Call. The call featured MBA representatives discussing efforts to help delinquent borrowers, MBA's new three-year macro-economic and mortgage finance/housing forecasts, a review of legislative and regulatory accomplishments in 2009, and the legislative and regulatory agenda for 2010 including GSE/secondary market reform and FHA reform.

The speakers included: John A. Courson, MBA's president and CEO; Robert E. Story Jr., CMB, MBA's chairman and president, and CEO of Seattle Financial Group; Steve O' Connor, MBA's senior vice president of government affairs and Jay Brinkmann, PhD, MBA's chief economist and senior vice president.

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