The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have put much of the banking system on shaky ground. Lenders with similar balance sheets that are more heavily involved in the mortgage market are under scrutiny.
With a bank liquidity crisis taking seed, some nonbank CEOs started asking a basic question: Are our escrows safe? What about our corporate deposits? Needless to say, it’s been an interesting week.
Some banks hike their use of FHLBank advances when a run on their deposits and the inability to sell their MBS holdings cut into liquidity. This strategy doesn’t seem to work for all banks.
Rates are headed lower, at least for now, causing sellers of MSRs to pause. However, “whole” company deals could pick up a head of steam. One hungry buyer: Guild Mortgage of San Diego.
The bipartisan Middle-Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act was reintroduced in the House last week by Reps. Vern Buchanan, R-FL, and Jimmy Panetta, D-CA.
The move signals an aggressive effort by federal regulators to rein in consolidation in the mortgage tech industry. ICE said it is prepared to fight the FTC over the Black Knight deal.
The bank liquidity crisis that started with Silvergate claimed the lives of three depositories but stopped at the door of the San Francisco-based FRB. More revelations might lie ahead. Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency delayed its DTI fees.
Rising interest rates and fickle demand in the secondary market made it difficult to originate non-QMs in 2022. The hope among industry participants is that volatility will recede.
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