Matt Webber is an experienced personal finance writer, researcher, and editor. He has published widely on personal finance, marketing, and the impact of technology on contemporary arts and culture.

For decades, the mortgage industry trained us to believe our job as loan officers was clear and defined. A family or individual decided to buy a home, they came to us, and we stepped in to help them ...

What if the story of declining loan officer numbers is just that — a story? If you’ve been around the mortgage industry awhile, you’ve surely heard of a sharp decline in licensed loan officer (LOs) ...

After a six-week probe, a second major university financial aid director has lost her job for accepting undisclosed financial benefits from a student loan company. Today, Johns Hopkins University, in ...