Summary: Countrywide Financial

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Being the CEO of Countrywide Financial, it would be my responsibility to provide quality mortgage services to our customer and keeping our processes ethically sound. In order to make sound loan decisions, we must have established guidelines that all of our loan originators follow. I do believe that every case deserves its own individualized decision based on the specifics of the application, but we should have a base that we all follow. The appraisers we work with should also have a similar code of ethics. We would not want to have established a solid process only to not have ethical supporting teams that we do business with outside our organization. We will need to provide our loan originators with the training they need to do the job

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