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Mortgage Broker Events and Conferences 2026
Compare mortgage broker events by learning, CPD, lender access and networking. Check the official programme before committing time or registration fees.
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Choose a mortgage broker conference for broad industry learning and lender access, or a focused seminar for a specific skill gap. A national programme can help you compare business approaches across the industry. A one-hour webinar is often a closer fit when you need to improve one part of a client file.
Start with the learning outcome, then check continuing professional development (CPD) recognition. A registration ticket buys access to the event. Your learning record must show the activity you actually completed and the credit your association or licensee recognises.
Choose the Learning and Industry Need
Choose the event that addresses an identifiable gap in your work. For example, inconsistent file notes call for learning about documenting loan recommendations. More contacts with lenders call for a different event and a different measure of success.
| Your need | Suitable event content | Result to bring back |
|---|---|---|
| Understand a policy or regulatory issue | A focused seminar with worked examples and questions | A corrected process or clearer file-note standard |
| Build a new lending skill | A workshop or structured learning activity with practice | Evidence that you can apply the skill to a case |
| Assess a supplier’s product | A demonstration with access to product specialists | A documented decision about the product’s fit |
| Build lender or peer relationships | An exhibition, member forum or networking session | Agreed follow-up with relevant contacts |
Policy education explains how a rule affects your work. Accredited learning has recognition under a named framework and its conditions.
A supplier demonstration explains a particular product, while networking creates relationships. A single conference can contain all four, but they don’t have the same learning purpose.
For a processing team, choose sessions that improve document handling or escalation to the broker. For a brokerage owner, a wider conference can support decisions about staff development and business systems. A broker entering commercial lending needs subject depth and supervised application beyond a broad industry keynote.
Compare Current Broker Events
Focused webinars suit a defined competence gap, while national conferences combine broader learning with exhibitions and peer contact. The 2026 national programmes below have finished. Use their scope to compare formats, and use the organisers’ live calendars for sessions you can book.
Focused MFAA Webinars
The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) lists a webinar on lenders mortgage insurance as an opportunity pathway. The online session combines an insurance refresher with client conversations about purchase pathways. It also includes a supplier demonstration, so distinguish the product presentation from the broader learning.
The MFAA lists the session with one CPD credit and complimentary member access. It is a closer match for a broker improving deposit-pathway conversations than a general business conference. The official listing holds the schedule and registration conditions.
For a file-quality gap, the MFAA’s webinar on ASIC’s best interests duty review is more directly relevant. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review is the subject of the session. The programme addresses loan recommendations, evidence that clients’ interests come first and practical lessons for brokerage processes.
That session is online, runs for one hour and is listed with one CPD credit. Choose it when your intended outcome is improving recommendation records. A product demonstration about lending pathways addresses a different gap, even when both activities carry the same advertised credit.
National Conferences
The MFAA National Conference brought its 2026 programme to Melbourne. Its learning themes include client acquisition, retention and productivity, alongside technology and market changes. The organiser advertises up to eight CPD hours, which is a ceiling rather than an automatic award for buying a ticket.
The Finance Brokers Association of Australasia (FBAA) held its National Industry Conference at ICC Sydney in 2026. Its programme covered the economy, human behaviour, trust and the future of broking, with an exhibition alongside the talks. This format suits broader industry perspective and meetings with suppliers, rather than detailed practice of one lending technique.
AFG Next combined conference sessions and breakouts with an exhibition in Melbourne. The 2026 programme was open to AFG brokers, business owners and support teams, together with specified sponsors. That audience makes it more directly connected to an AFG practice’s operating environment than an event open across aggregator networks.
AFG publishes a full-attendance CPD allocation and says it records the credit in brokers’ learning profiles. Its package combines conferencing with social functions and accommodation. Separate the educational sessions from those other inclusions when you plan learning and assess time away from client work.
Short Aggregator Learning and Industry Networking
AFG Broker Insights is a 60-minute webinar series with topical industry discussions. Its stated subjects include business growth, diversification, compliance and succession planning. It suits a broker who wants a shorter learning block without conference travel.
Select an individual session by its subject, not the series name. A broad business discussion won’t teach the same material as a seminar on documenting recommendations. Use the session’s recognition and your own CPD rules when recording the learning.
For commercial and asset-finance relationships, the Commercial & Asset Finance Brokers Association of Australia (CAFBA) has an official events calendar. Its programme includes networking functions, with locations and booking details on the organiser’s site. Choose a networking function to meet relevant peers or financiers, and keep that objective separate from a technical training need.
Match the Format to the Gap
| Programme | Format and location | Strongest learning or industry use | CPD treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| MFAA insurance-pathway webinar | One-hour online session | Client conversations about deposit pathways, with a supplier demonstration | Organiser lists one credit |
| MFAA best interests duty review webinar | One-hour online session | Recommendation records and brokerage practices | Organiser lists one credit |
| MFAA National Conference 2026 | Melbourne conference and exhibition | Broad business, technology and market learning | Advertised up to eight hours |
| FBAA National Industry Conference 2026 | Sydney conference and exhibition | Industry perspective and supplier access | Apply recognised educational content and association rules |
| AFG Next 2026 | Melbourne conference with breakouts | Learning and partner access for the AFG network | Organiser’s full-attendance allocation and learning-profile record |
| AFG Broker Insights | Online webinar series | Short topical discussions for broker businesses | Record the recognised activity under your applicable rules |
The MFAA events calendar and FBAA events calendar also include shorter professional-development formats. A local workshop can give you more time on a single issue than a national programme. Before booking, compare the session outcomes with travel time, access conditions and client coverage during your absence.
Check CPD and Keep Evidence
Confirm who recognises the activity before treating advertised CPD as completed credit. Your association’s membership rules and your licensee’s training requirements can impose different conditions. Keep the organiser’s allocation with the record of the sessions you attended.
The MFAA’s CPD guidance requires members to complete 30 hours per membership renewal year. Learning must be relevant to the industry, your role and career goals. Its records must identify the participant and activity, the provider and the hours earned.
The FBAA’s activity table allocates conference credit by relevant educational content, with a maximum of eight hours per conference day. It separately classifies seminars, workshops and other professional-development activities. The category and cap affect what you can record, even when an event runs for longer.
Licensee requirements need their own attention. AFG’s broker-learning guidance says its credit representatives must earn their annual CPD through AFG training. An external event’s advertised association credit doesn’t establish that it meets that separate requirement.
Keep the event programme, attendance confirmation and any completion certificate. Record the activity date in your own CPD register, together with the educational hours and recognition category. If the event has concurrent breakouts, record the sessions you completed rather than every session offered.
Attendance alone doesn’t show what you learned or establish every advertised credit. Save a short note explaining the relevant topic and how it applies to your role. A social function, exhibition visit and educational session can share one ticket while contributing different evidence to the learning record.
Plan the Follow-Through
Assign a practical action to the person who can change the brokerage’s work. After a session about recommendation records, the compliance lead can revise the file-note template. The supervising broker then checks whether the revised template captures the client’s needs and the reasons for the recommendation.
Use this illustrative follow-through plan for a team that attends different sessions.
| Event outcome | Owner | Follow-through evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Clearer recommendation records | Compliance lead and supervising broker | Revised template and review of its use in an authorised file |
| Better deposit-pathway conversations | Attending broker | Training note separating general insurance education from product-specific claims |
| A possible workflow improvement | Operations manager | Scoped change, access review and decision about adoption |
| A relevant lender or peer contact | Broker who held the meeting | Agreed next discussion and the question to resolve |
For a lender-policy discussion, obtain the written rule through the lender’s official channel before changing a client recommendation. A speaker’s example or an informal conversation can identify a question to research. It doesn’t establish how the policy applies to your next client.
Set the review point when you assign the action. After staff use a revised process, have the responsible broker inspect the result and record any correction. Choose your next event from the gap that remains, rather than booking another conference because the last one filled the calendar.
