Andrew Liput

About Me Andrew Liput has specialized in banking and mortgage industry legal, regulatory and compliance matters for over thirty years.  Among his experiences, Mr. Liput has served as Executive VP and General Counsel to US Mortgage, SVP and General Counsel to Residential Home Funding, and then acted as outside counsel and a compliance consultant to numerous credit unions, banks, and mortgage lenders throughout the Northeastern United States.  In 2012 he founded Secure Insight, a technology firm focused on managing risk arising from wire fraud, cyber fraud and title and closing fraud.  In that capacity he has assisted more than 100 lenders nationwide in preventing fraud losses in residential and commercial mortgage transactions. Attorney Liput has also assisted law enforcement in fraud investigations and has testified before grand juries, as well as bar disciplinary hearings regarding allegations of mortgage and real estate fraud.  He has written dozens of articles on various aspects of mortgage lending including regulatory, compliance and fraud prevention matters for the ABA Journal, Mortgage Bankers Professional, Credit Union Times, The Mortgage Press, Housing Wire, and other publications.  Mr. Liput has completed advanced studies in fintech, data privacy and technology, cyber security, data science and related courses at Harvard University and Harvard Business School.  He is a frequent platform speaker at industry conferences and conventions on legal matters involving cyber fraud, settlement fraud, wire fraud and banking industry regulations generally. He is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy-Newark Division and serves as a board member for the FBI community outreach program in New Jersey. He holds the rank of Colonel in the United States Air Force Auxiliary and formerly served as the wing commander of the New Jersey disaster relief and emergency services search and rescue response unit at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He remains active as a volunteer in strategic planning and incident command for search and rescue and disaster response in the Northeast Region of the United States.

Practice Areas

•  Regulatory Compliance

•  Data Privacy

Education

•  Fordham University School of Law (J.D.)

•  Northwestern Theological Seminary (ThM)

•  Drew University (B.A.)

Bar Admissions

•  Licensed Attorney, State Bar of New York

•  Licensed Attorney, State Bar of New Jersey

•  Licensed Attorney, State Bar of Connecticut

Professional Associations

•  Mortgage Bankers Association

•  New Jersey Mortgage Bankers Association

•  Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

•  InfraGard