Akerman is a sponsor of the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Regulatory Compliance Conference. Thomas Kearney will speak on a panel titled, "IT for Compliance Professionals," which will discuss key concepts like multi-factor authentication, penetration and vulnerability testing, cookies, tokens, VPN tunnels, and more. The panel will provide compliance professionals with an understanding of what they need to know before assuming the liability of signing off on compliance procedures that involve these complicated processes. The conference will also addresses regulatory changes and developments that impact how mortgage companies do business, including the HMDA data release, TCPA, data privacy and security concerns, RESPA, LO Comp, litigation issues and much more.