New Site Column Called ‘Daily Basis’ Coming Soon

As we get up to speed this year, Rob Chrisman will be joining The Basis Point as a writer of a column called Daily Basis. It’s a daily round-up of mortgage industry and market data. Rob has been writing this for years, and now he’s got a new home and hopefully a bigger audience for his content, which to now has only been read via his proprietary email distribution list. The best part is that every day, Rob ends his posts with a joke. But as you will see, his commentary aint no joke.

Rob began his career in mortgage banking 23 years ago in 1985 with First California Mortgage, assisting in Secondary Marketing until 1988, when he joined Tuttle & Co. He was an account manager and partner at Tuttle & Co. until 1996, when he left for family reasons to move to Scotland.

He returned to the United States in mid-1997 and ran Secondary for Standard Financial, a sub-prime lender in northern California. In late 1997 Rob was hired by CrossLand Mortgage to start, and be the president of, a sub-prime company named OnCall Mortgage (a division of CrossLand). OnCall Mortgage was in existence until Wells Fargo purchased First Security Bank (the owner of CrossLand) at the end of 2000. Rob then joined CMG Mortgage, a wholesale mortgage bank, as the Director of Secondary Marketing. He left there in early 2003 and re-joined Tuttle Risk Management Services, Inc. TRMS provides mortgage pipeline risk management for mortgage companies and thrifts that seek to originate and sell loans into the secondary mortgage market. In November of 2006 Rob left TRMS to become the Director of Capital Markets for RPM Mortgage, a large retail residential lender with 35 branches and over 400 loan agents in several states.

Rob holds a BS from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.