After a short-lived retirement on December 31, industry icon and former head of Scotiabank's mortgage business, John Webster, wasted no time diving headfirst back into mortgage finance. Webster has resurrected Maple Financial, a brand he sold to Scotiabank 18 years ago, with a fresh disruptive twist. Chatting with

💡Also in this edition: Starting Soon. The Mortgage Market's Main Event Mortgage pros are entering the thick of the most pivotal marketing disruption since the .com boom. In his earnings report Wednesday, the CEO of AI powerhouse Nvidia, Jensen Huang, dropped a truth bomb. Generative AI has "

Most in the mortgage broker business saw this coming, but now it's official. In an email to its brokers on Tuesday, HSBC Canada said that its acquirer—RBC—"will not be entering into new partnerships within the broker channel at this time." Optimists had crossed their

🗞️Also in this edition: • OSFI on its 2024 Mortgage Tightening Plans • The Value Zone • Mortgage Bytes We won't swing from the chandeliers just yet, but the fact is, Canada's mortgage market just got precisely what the doctor ordered—significantly better-than-expected inflation. And it came just in