Opportunity Finance Network

Wow! What a Closing Plenary!

A Senate Expert, Too. Kirk Victor, a widely read journalist who covers the U.S. Senate has agreed to join Ned Gramlich and Rich Cohen on our closing plenary panel on the upcoming midterm elections. Like Cohen, Victor writes for National Journal.

This is going to be good.

Midterm Elections @ The Conference

Closing Plenary. The closing plenary session at this year's Opportunity Finance Conference will focus on the November 7th midterm elections. The hour-long conversation will run from 1 pm to 2 pm on Thursday, November 2nd, and it will wrap up the Conference with a cliffhanger--who will win?

The panel will be outstanding: confirmed so far are Ned Gramlich, a former Federal Reserve Board Governor and former professor at the University of Michigan (not to mention a brand new Opportunity Finance Network Board Member) and Richard E. Cohen. Cohen, senior congressional correspondent for National Journal, is co-author of the Almanac of American Politics, the bible for national politics and author of many books on Congress.

Speaking of Speaking

My Speech. And that other Speaker. I have just about finished my speech for the conference, and I can promise you some important news and an embarrassing revelation about my past. I hope you can make it.

Chairman Bernanke will be speaking at about 12:45 pm on November 1st, following. Our newest Board Member, Ned Gramlich, a former Fed Governor, will introduce the Chairman.

If technology serves us well, we will post video and texts of both speeches on our new website (www.opportunityfinance.net) hours after we speak.

Pre-Conference Jitters?

It's Getting Real. Every year this time, I get excited and nervous about our Conference. This year, we are rolling out a host of new and exciting things, ranging from our responsible mortgage platform to compete with predatory lenders to several announcements about CARS(TM), our ratings system.

We will unveil our new web site, a new marketing tool for Members, and our new Opportunity Finance Policy Agenda.

The new Opportunity Finance brand will be on full display--banners, our booth, materials.

I am looking forward to seeing more than 700 of my friends. Safe travels.