On Sunday, here in Hawai’i, and everywhere else I guess, is Lei Day. I was all set to go down the 5th grade joke path, until I saw this story about napping and ran out of room in today’s commentary. Utah’s Michael Pickard thought he was allowed to take a nap at work. He fell asleep and was fired a week later. The Labor Commission ultimately sided with Pickard, finding his dismissal to be either discriminatory or retaliatory, and now a Utah state appeals court has agreed. Regulators, courts, and the lending business all go hand-in-hand. The pricing margins that lenders and banks have help ensure that compliance departments function, buybacks can be handled, and legal matters dealt with. For example, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency entered into a Consent Order with Anchorage Digital Bank, which requires Anchorage to create a compliance committee and take steps to remediate alleged shortcomings with respect to the implementation and effectiveness of Anch
When did pineapples in shopping carts become a thing (more below)? But I digress… This morning I head to Miami, because isn’t there where most rap videos are filmed? Remember when there were one-hour LO-sponsored happy hours for new borrowers, friends, and referral sources like real estate agents at fancy establishments like the local Olive Garden? With mask mandates crumbling, LO-sponsored events are back in full swing. Mortgage conference season is in full swing too, with its plethora of applewood smoked bacon and pineapple cubes in the breakfast buffet line. I like pineapple as much as the next guy, but how the heck did an upside pineapple in one’s shopping cart develop into an invitation for certain types of sex, namely swinging? (Ain't nobody in the Food Lion I want to talk to, much less swing with.) Yes, humans are odd creatures. For MLOs, and more grounded, is the “Big Skip Energy Podcast” diving into the world of sales and business dev