The trade association for Alaska's mortgage industry since 1976
No one does Alaska alone.
Alaska lending is its own discipline, and nobody teaches it. AMBA does, at nine monthly meetings a year, and represents this industry at the Municipality, in Juneau, and in Washington the rest of the time.
Trained. Current. Connected. Represented.
Who is the Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association?
The Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association is the trade association for the people and companies who originate, service, insure, appraise, and close mortgages in Alaska. It was founded in 1976 and is a non-profit 501(c)(6) based in Anchorage.
Members include lenders, banks, credit unions, title companies, mortgage insurers, appraisers, and the firms that serve them. Membership is bought by the company. Every person the company names is a full member from that moment, with their own login, their own directory listing, and a free seat at every meeting.
AMBA runs on four things: it teaches how lending actually works in this state, it tells you what changed before your investor does, it puts the whole transaction in one room, and it represents the industry where the rules get written.
Fast facts
| Founded | 1976 |
| Monthly meetings a year | 9 (Sep to May) |
| Company membership from | $300 |
| Individual membership | $100 |
| Membership year | Sep 1 to Aug 31 |
| Based in | Anchorage, Alaska |
AMBA is a non-profit trade association. It is not a political action committee and does not contribute to candidates.
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How can AMBA help you?
You work in the industry
I originate, process, appraise, insure, or close loans in Alaska.
Nine monthly meetings a year, free to every named person at a member company. A weekly briefing on rates, regulators, and the Legislature. A bootcamp for new originators taught by people who work here.
See what membership includes →You write or enforce the rules
I am a legislator, staffer, regulator, or reporter.
The Legislative Affairs Committee provides non-partisan technical analysis on mortgage and real estate finance legislation, on the record and at no charge. Ask us before it is drafted, not after.
Contact the committee →You are buying or refinancing
I need a mortgage on a home in Alaska.
Getting a mortgage here works differently than it does Outside, and knowing why saves you weeks. Here is what to expect, what to ask, and how to find a lender bound by our canon of ethics.
Find an Alaska lender →What AMBA does
Our mission, built on four pillars
01 Education
Trained
Nine monthly meetings a year and an annual bootcamp for new originators, taught by Alaskan practitioners. We would rather explain the rule than announce a position on it.
Education →02 Communication
Current
A briefing every Monday on the market, the regulators, and the Legislature. Nothing that affects your work should reach you from an investor bulletin first.
The briefing →03 Partnership
Connected
The lender, the title officer, the appraiser, and the MI rep in the same room nine times a year. Most of what this association is worth happens in the twenty minutes before the room sits down.
Events →04 Advocacy
Represented
Municipal, state, and federal. Non-partisan, on the record, and built from analysis rather than instinct. Our voice carries because our homework does.
Advocacy →Next up
Upcoming meetings and events
Nine membership meetings a year, September through May, free to every named person at a member company, in person in Anchorage or on video.
Monday briefing
What changed last week
Every Monday morning AMBA publishes a briefing on what moved in the mortgage market, what the regulators did, and what the Legislature is doing about housing. It is written for people who have to act on it by Friday.
In this week's briefing
- Rate movement and what it means for files already locked
- Regulatory and program changes reaching Alaska lenders
- Bills moving in Juneau that touch mortgage and real estate finance
- Compliance dates worth putting on the calendar
The briefing goes to roughly nine hundred people in the Alaska housing and lending industry. Subscribing is free and you do not have to be a member.
Membership
Your company joins. Your people get the value.
A five-person firm pays $300 for the year. That covers all five people at all nine monthly meetings, in person or on video, plus member pricing on the Bootcamp, a directory listing under each person's own name, and eligibility to serve on committees.
One invoice, once a year, and it does not change when you hire. Name more people than you think will come. The person who shows up once in March is usually the person who brings a problem to the room in June.
The seat belongs to the person
Change jobs, keep your membership.
If someone changes employers, they keep their membership. Their new firm can pick the seat up, or they carry it themselves at the individual rate until it does. Nobody loses fifteen years of professional standing because the logo on their business card changed.
Meanwhile the seat they left is yours to refill.
Thank you to our partners
Partnership includes membership, so one invoice and one renewal date replace two. See the partnership tiers.
