3P R O C E E D I N G S1- - - - -2MS. IPPOLITO: Welcome to the FTC. This is the3Mortgage Research Roundtable. We really appreciate you4all coming out in the middle of noreaster here. Of5course, to a New Englander, this isn't what a noreaster6really looks like. But in October, I guess it does.7We have a full day planned, so I'd like to get8going quickly. As most of you know, this is not a9workshop to discuss a particular policy issue. When Tim10Muris approached us about putting this together, it was11driven in part by the fact that so many things are12changing in this market. We have a shifting role of13brokers and lenders; we have deceptive lending practices14that we have been involved with, others have been15involved with from an enforcement perspective. We have16several states experimenting in various ways with17particular constraints on the market. HUD has proposed18revisions of its federal disclosure remedies. There are19developments in e-commerce that will change this market.20We had a series of three workshops last week21including a panel on e-commerce and financial markets22that raised a number of issues that are of interest to23us.24So, the Chairman asked us to put together not a25
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