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In previous installments of our 50 Shades of Pay series, we dove into spend analytics related to identifying potential savings from strategic sourcing, such as reduced pricing via competitive bidding to aggregate spending to preferred suppliers. Most large firms have some type of capability here, namely because of its criticality to strategic sourcing, a methodology that has been around for decades. In this installment, we will focus on how firms can expand their spend analytics to identify and fix non-compliance scenarios that cost real money and introduce real business risk. In this first of a 6-part mini series on spend compliance, we'll introduce a framework you can use to guide your compliance efforts to get some hard ROI rather than just reduced risk. Let's get started.
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In this Flashback Friday, we look back to another one of our most popular Ask the Expert webinars, Upgrade Your Procurement Scorecard – and Upgrade Your Procurement Performance. Originally recorded back in March 2014 and led by Chief Research Officer Pierre Mitchell, this webinar takes listeners through a variety of steps and questions a procurement organization will need to address to create an effective scorecard for tracking performance.
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Over on our sister site, Chief Procurement Officer, I have been discussing the perfect order measurement and how to adopt the metric for your procurement organization. While the perfect order metric may sound simple, the implementation can be complex. This Spend Matters Plus article will focus on how to address and overcome this complexity, as well as how to implement the perfect order effectively. I also touch on the benefits of perfect order, including how it enables better measurement of supply chain performance. If you want to measure perfect order performance, you have to ask yourself a lot of questions. Here are 5 key questions to ask and adapt to your organization regarding the perfect order metric.
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Former employees allege Bank of America (BAC) gave out cash bonuses and gift cards as rewards for denying loan applications and illegitimately modifying customers' files in order to make them "ineligible for loan modification," Bloomberg says. One "loss-mitigation specialist" claims staff were "regularly drilled … to maximize fees … by extending delay of the Home Affordable Modification Program process" by any available means. "At best, these attorneys are painting a false picture of the bank's practices," a BAC spokesperson says dryly.
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Perhaps they should change their name to Bank of Obama. How many scandals can we tolerate from this bank? They prey on the poor and even worse, struggling young families. I don't know if Congress can handle yet another investigation given all that are currently in progress, but this one is dangerous for BAC because Obama needs something to get his backside out of the fire, and this scandal would be immensely popular with the public.
Bank of America's questionable practices started way before Obama was President. IMO it all started when that North Carolina financial institution merged with San Francisco's Bank of America. I remember when all this happened because I was living in the S. F. Bay Area at the time. I was shocked when I read in The San Francisco Chronicle that Bank of America was moving to North Carolina, taking with it all these jobs from San Francisco. I remember this was an uproar in San Francisco. We couldn't understand why the bigger Bank of America would have to relocate to the smaller financial institution's headquarters. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Well, this was just the start of all this deceitful and questionable practices that this North Carolina financial institution did to Bank of America. So, Mr. Umina, before you dragged President Obama's name into all this--I advise you to first do some research before you open your big fat mouth.
As a former employee of BAC, in the default servicing dept, this is the biggest lie I've ever seen.
There are numerous declarations and affidavits from BofA employees attesting to the fact that the bank told them to lie to homeowners. See http://bit.ly/11GGBT6 in the LIBRARY under Affidavits.
In reality, BAC has a major outreach effort to owners who have stopped paying their mortgages to turn them into productive interest earning loans. Some owners are hard to reach others have already died. Estates sales of real estate when settled clear up the indebtedness. During the annual stockholder's meeting not even a cup of coffee was offered. The only display was the mortgage modification program showing the effort the bank has been making to keep people in their homes and turn these mortgages into productive assets. With the recent run up in the stock and the current downturn failing to make a major inroad below the $13 level, expect to see other muck conjured up by the shorts trying to get out of their positions.
Odd...someone with no first hand experience knows how hard Bank of America is working to keep people in their homes? I PERSONALLY observed them defy a court order and throw a single mom out on the street by removing everything from her home while she was at work. They did this AFTER they had given her a modification. The real world is a lot different than what they tell you at stockholders meetings.
This is true daner. It was US Bank, I used it as an example of the kind of abuse that the banks have been doing to the homebuyers. So for your reading pleasure...here is one that does involve Bank of America:
Here's another one, just so you don't think it was an isolated incident:
Thank you for the info. I appreciate your support of the homeowner. The housing bubble that started to pop in 2006 was probably the worst financial crisis in this country since the "Great Depression". Being in the real estate business in S. FL. I had a front row seat. Easy money and too many people believing house prices could not ever go down were the main drivers. Subprime lending and all of those crazy loan terms really blew the bubble up! The big banks are easy targets, as Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is". And the subprime lenders are gone years ago. But I don't feel the big banks deserve all of the blame. B of A has paid around $50B to clean up Countrywide's mess. They probably could have just put Countrywide into bankruptcy, but I feel they are trying to do the right thing. An honest 20% min. down payment on a home loan would be a great regulator, but our Gov. still thinks everybody should get a home loan.
And the government charged 0-1% interest to make that happen. The government did not require lenders to relax or even ignore underwriting standards. The government did not set the Libor rates and the government did not create "Option-arm" loans, nor encourage brokers and real-estate agents to bring in buyers no matter what they had to do. There is enough wrong-doing in this situation to go around, so there ought to be a shared responsibility for that...so far there is not.
The people to take applications for loan modifications were there. They have statistics published showing the numbers modified and foreclosures. There is no profit in thowing people out of their homes - they are risking continued lending to poor credit risks in order to do this. These people must make the payments. Its a gift that if they are working at lower wages to keep their home and pay a lower balance mortgage with lower monthly payments. This is probably a low profitit if any buisiness.
As one in the trenches it is amazing to me how many people choose to bury their head in the sand when it comes to fraudulent foreclosures. How many have had their homes foreclosed on that have never missed a payment? How many have had their homes foreclosed on when their homes were paid off? How many have made their "hamp" "harp" or "hope" payments on times for several months, years, only to have their homes foreclosed on anyway.
The banks failed long before the majority of homeowners defaulted. Most homeowners called the banks to refinanced as they had been promised when they took out the short term ARM loan. The short term option ARM was a scam, a defective LIBOR rigged rate loan. The banks had lost their credit flow in about Jan. 2007. When the homeowners, who had good credit at that time, called to refinance and exercise their "option" to refinance - the banks could not perform.
Coincidence? Recent HARP refi's on buried investment props, went seamlessly at PNC and Chase.
If you thoroughly understood what brought the economy to its knees you'd see that there were some 25 million American families affected by the Wall Street securitization scheme by corporate and municipal layoffs because their companies had invested the pension trust funds in fraudulent, fictiticous REMIC trusts and lost million$ (in some cases billion$).
The term "dryly", as it is used here, simply means: "In a matter-of-fact way." As such, use of the term is entirely appropriate and conveys nothing as to an editorial opinion regarding the truth or (un)truth of the former employees' accusations. They say "yes", Bank of America says "no."
This is obviously not a true statement. In many instances, borrowers who apply for modifications will not be eligible if they have one of many "private investors" backing their loan- this would be most of the time anyone other than Fannie or Freddie or BAC. And upon applying, the bank is not allowed legally to tell the borrower up front that they are not eligible for modification until the file has been underwritten and processed. Also, modification destroys MBS pools held by an investor.
Borrowers feel a sense of entitlement when they have been defrauded. Considering the plethora of lawsuits that have been settled in lieu of litigation, LIBOR fixing, "predatory loans" and such.
The truth is that these borrowers were happy to get the crazy loans that let them buy a home they couldn't afford. Countrywide did it not BAC. A lot of these borrowers were more than happy to default on their upside down loans and screw the lender. Where is your sense of fairness? You must be a gen-x'r or 99%r.
Another truth is investors are happy to see a profit, no matter what kind of laws are broken behind the scenes, as long as the money moving up, they don't want the boat rocked. How different is that from homebuyers who don't want to see their homes lose value.
I agree that it was Countrywide and not BAC that caused these problems. Also, I have not seen anyone discuss how many of these upside down loans on homes that people could not afford in the first place were loans that were purchased by Countrywide and BAC from Mortgage Brokers who were the ones filling out the paperwork for the borrowers and writing fairytale applications. Where is the condemnation for the Real Estate Un-Professionals who were telling buyers that they could pay more for a house they could not afford in the first place because they were going to make a boat load of money as the market value of the home would keep going up. As a retired Regional Chief Appraiser for BAC, I never was told or did I tell my staff to increase or decrease values to make loans fly or crash. In fact, our staff had to take "Fair Lending" classes every year to make sure that we were doing the right thing for the borrower. It is about time that the true dirt bags that caused this mess be put into the spotlight. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and many other politicians made the banks loan money to people that could not afford it under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Since its inception, (CRA) banks have loaned billions of dollars to borrowers who did not have a chance in hell of ever being able to pay back the money they borrowed for the homes they could not afford. O.k. guys - Lets blame the guys that we forced to throw money down a rat hole. Government in action.
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Yeah, and that was after they swindled them out of their pension funds. See THE SUCKER PUNCH on DeadlyClear. All this busting up the union business came after the pension fund investors began suing the banks for inflating the mortgage appraisals, abandoning underwriting guidelines and over-rating the bonds... None of which the homeowners had anything to do with.
And what exactly do YOU do everyday? How about volunteering at any foreclosure defense attorney's office and just do the in-take on the homeowners for a day or two. You will see average working folks, doctors, school teachers, policemen, rock stars, etc. all walk through the door and tell the same story.
Wake up - read BAILOUT by Neil Barofsky, former TARP inspector general. There are no real modifications. The bank's wrote more loans than they can legally hold and now the regulators want to squeeze the air out of that bag.
Wow - are you misguided. I suppose you believe that people who started smoking in the 1950s and 1960s because of the commercial advertising and product placement in movies and on TV deserve to get cancer?
BofA was a driving force in the securitization scheme. BofA, formerly NationsBank, held major rights in the Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems, Inc. "invention" - MERS. This was developed in the 1990s.
Let's suppose you are investing in a stock and you find out that the company fraudulently released a report that artificially inflated the value of the stock by 40-150%. Are you entitled to file a securities fraud claim and get your money back plus damages?
You're right. There are people who don't want to take accountability for their actions, but not 10 million of them. These were not welfare recipients, most of them were families working to make a home for themselves and their children. Many of them were paying "temporary modification" payments before the bank foreclosed on them. Many were forced to pay 9-11% interest on a home that was underwater while they waited for the bank to modify and as you can see from the article....the bank did not want to do it.
Oh Pleeese Lankfin! You apparently have no idea what is really transpiring behind the securitization curtain. Your niece and nephew, like 84+ million other American families were sold defective loan products set to detonate to a price that NO ONE had been vetted for - all based on RIGGED LIBOR RATES.
I have a niece and nephew who are part of that genes crowd. They both bought homes in different states. Both defaulted on their loans. One was a short sale while the other just walked away. They come from a very wealthy family. They both were fine as long as the value of their homes were going up. Once the market came to a scratching halt they didn't like it. They had loans that were too big. They also felt "entitled" and they shouldn't have to pay for the mistake of a bad economy. It was appalling to the rest of our family of this mentality.
It appears there is not a mortgage loan written between 2003-2008 that is not defective. Read the US Senate investigative reports. Top it off with intentionally inflated appraisals and rigged LIBOR interest rates. Read BAILOUT by Neil Barofsy.
You are right Lankfam. There are those who chose to walk away and not hold onto their sinking ship. If they are young enough and solvent enough, they will recover. It was probably a good business decision, and that might be their story, but not everyone has the same story, as these corporations would have you believe.
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Well, my interpretations were all well and good, but I was interested in what was going through the mind of David Lynch and Barry Gifford when they wrote the movie. I did a little research, and this is what I found...
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The idea for this movie came to David Lynch while reading a book by Barry Gifford called Night People. In the book, Barry uses the term "lost highway" and those words sparked an idea in David's head. From this early point, David knew he wanted to make a movie about the unknown. He contacted Barry, and they set out to write the movie.
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Accelerate Your Guitar Playing features respected teacher and professional musician Tomo Fujita leading the viewer through a series of exercises designed to increase a variety of guitar playing techniques. The video includes lessons in interval training and learning rhythms, as well as offering examples of grooves played in a variety of styles. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners' readiness for tobacco intervention training: Development and psychometric properties of a new measureJames K. Cunningham | Lysbeth L. Floden | Amy L. Howerter | Eva Matthews | Judith S. Gordon | Myra L. Muramoto
Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2015, Pages 90-95
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.Objective: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners are an important potential resource for expanding the use of tobacco cessation brief interventions. Training these practitioners to conduct such interventions has been hampered, however, by a lack of tools for assessing the practitioners' tobacco intervention behaviors and interest, and openness to non-CAM tobacco cessation aids (e.g., medications, quitlines). Recognizing this, we developed a new measure: the CAM Readiness for Training in Tobacco Intervention (CAM RTTI) questionnaire. Methods: Together with a key informant group of CAM experts, we constructed 18 questionnaire items. For structured review and face validity assessment, the items were submitted to a national panel of CAM practitioners and tobacco cessation experts, and revised according to their comments. The items were then administered to a sample of 97 CAM practitioners (30 chiropractors, 26 licensed acupuncturists, 41 licensed massage therapists). Exploratory factor analysis and internal reliability tests were used to examine the items' psychometric properties. Results: Three underlying factors were indicated: current tobacco cessation activity, motivation/confidence regarding the conduct of tobacco cessation activity, and comfort providing patients/clients with information about non-CAM tobacco interventions. Acceptable internal validity was indicated for the factor-based subscales (Cronbach's alphas ranged .71-.81). Responses differed substantially across the factors/subscales. The practitioners indicated little current engagement in tobacco-cessation activities (factor 1), but were well-motivated to begin doing so (factor 2). Level of comfort with non-CAM tobacco interventions (factor 3) had pronounced dispersion from negative to positive. Conclusions: CAM RTTI assessed three factors that can be critical to implementing effective tobacco intervention trainings for a CAM practitioner: (1) current tobacco intervention activity, (2) motivation/confidence and (3) comfort with non-CAM interventions. Moreover, it assessed these factors using language appropriate to CAM practitioners, providing the first measure, to our knowledge, specific to the development of tobacco intervention training for this group.
Effects of Borrelia on host immune system: Possible consequences for diagnosticsMualla McManus | Ann Cincotta
Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2015, Pages 81-89
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.Borreliosis, Lyme disease, is the fastest growing tick borne infection in the world. Annually 300,000 (0.094%) people are diagnosed in the USA. Objective: To clarify and aid in the understanding of the indirect diagnostics of Borreliosis in the light of immune dysfunction.Diagnosis is difficult not only due to multi-systemic and nonspecific nature of symptoms but also due to the indirect diagnostics assuming immuno-competence in all three stages of Borreliosis. Indirect diagnostics are the most common method of testing for Borreliosis as they are cheap and convenient. However due to wide variation in antigenicity of genospecies, the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostics can be questioned. Evidence is accumulating which suggests that immune dysregulation induced by Borrelia (and other tick borne infections) can impact the indirect diagnostics, especially in Stage 3. The direct detection of Borrelia using nucleotide amplification method is possible but wider usage of this method is difficult as it has high specificity and narrow sensitivity. In vitro culturing is ideal but difficult as Borrelia has fastidious growth requirements.The immune status of the borreliosis patient needs to be considered, especially in Stage 3 in conjunction with clinical symptoms in the diagnosis. Borrelia has the ability to manipulate both the innate and active immunity and alter the cytokines secreted hence alter the path of the immune response. Immune parameters such as IFN-gamma/IL-10, lymphocyte markers, complement C3a, C4a, and total immunoglobulin levels may help to discriminate between stages and monitor treatment outcomes. The level of immune dysfunction in Stage 3 may depend on the number of co-infections delivered by a tick bite, such as Babesia, and Rickettsia, the genospecies of Borrelia, other pathogens, the patients' biome and immunogenetics.
Integrative medicine and the nutrition transition: What we learn from history and how it can be applied?Simon Spedding | Talitha Best
Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2015, Pages 77-80
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.History demonstrates how disease drives society to seek a remedy and industry refines this complementary medicine into a product. Researchers evaluate and modify the medicine before its acceptance by conventional medicine, often as a pharmaceutical.Whilst the accepted theory is that progress in conventional medicine is driven by medical research. Innovation in medicine is often driven by consumers and industry and acceptance by conventional medicine may incur substantial delays. This raises the question of whether a different construct is required recognising the value of integrating conventional medicines with traditional knowledge, and greater collaboration between the research, consumer, industry, and policy sectors.This paper describes new approaches to address the current health crisis of increasing rates of obesity and associated chronic disease, and explores the potential for health improvement through integration in medicine with collaborative partnerships between industry and research, acknowledging the pivotal position of consumers in setting the agenda for future research and the potential for policy makers to take action.
Individuals at risk of metabolic syndrome are more likely to use a variety of dietary supplementsRajadurai Akilen | Amalia Tsiami | Nicola Robinson
Volume 1, Issue 3, January 2014, Pages 131-137
© 2014.Background: It has been suggested that users of dietary supplements are likely to be people who are more health conscious. It is therefore conceivable that developing a metabolic disorder, such as diabetes, insulin resistance or hypertension, may make an individual more receptive to dietary supplement use. The aim of this study was to determine whether individuals with self-reported features of metabolic syndrome (FeMS) were more likely to use different dietary supplements compared with individuals without self-reported FeMS. Method: In this cross sectional survey a total of 300 individuals working or studying in a UK university were invited to participate in the study. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on demographics, health status, use of dietary supplements and lifestyle. Results: A total o the 210 individuals completing the questionnaire, 32% (n= 66) were currently using or had used dietary supplements in the past 12 months. The five most common dietary supplements used were; multi vitamins (38%), fish oils (35%), calcium (26%), different herbal supplements (24%) and omega 3 oils (24%). Individuals with FeMS (defined as at least 1 self reported condition of; diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia or obesity), (n= 54; 28%) were more likely (P< 0.05) to use different types of dietary supplements and less likely to report or discuss the use of dietary supplements with their general practitioner (P= 0.043) than those without FeMS. Discussion: FeMS may be an independent predictor of dietary supplement use. Dietary supplement use is more common in older individuals and those with higher educational status.
Integrative care of type 2 diabetes mellitusGary Deed
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 55-58
© 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd.Integrative care of patients with type 2 diabetes requires an understanding of the patient's lifestyle, motivations and natural history of their diabetes. This individualised approach integrating elements of the medical framework and evidence based lifestyle, nutritional and other complementary approaches can assist patient outcomes.