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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    Scott Goldstein is President and CEO of Farmington Hills, Mich.-based NDeX, a provider of technology and processing services for law firms nationwide. Goldstein currently serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Advisory Council.

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    Mr. Bluver has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Suffolk Bancorp and Suffolk County National Bank since December 2011. Prior to that time, Mr. Bluver was the founder and President of JDS Financial Group, LLC, a consulting firm, which served the regulatory, transactional, risk management, corporate governance, due diligence and operational needs of the commercial banking, thrift, mortgage and investment banking sectors from 2005 to 2011. From 1994 until 2005, Mr. Bluver was Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Enterprise Risk Officer at GreenPoint Bank and GreenPoint Financial Corp., New York, New York. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief Counsel, United States Office of Thrift Supervision, Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1994. He started his career at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., finishing as Chief of the branch in the Division of Corporation Finance that covered financial institutions.Since 2005, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Georgetown in Washington D.C., as well as a member of that institution’s Audit Committee and Strategic Planning Committee.

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    In September 2006, Brian Koss joined Mortgage Network, Inc. of Danvers, MA as an Executive Vice President of National Production. Mortgage Network is a national lender with a $2B annual retail business throughout the East Coast. Brian brings with him 24 years in the business and has personally lent as a Loan Officer over $1Billion in home loans. From 2002 to 2006 Brian was the SVP of New England for Countrywide Home Loans.

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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.