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CFPB’s Antonakes Takes Another Swipe at Mortgage Servicers

March 17, 2014
CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes isn’t toning down his antagonistic stance towards mortgage servicers. Speaking at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference in Washington, DC, last week, Antonakes rattled the bureau’s sabre at the market sector again, saying, “We expect servicers to pay exceptionally close attention to servicing transfers and they should understand that we will as well. “Servicing transfers where the new servicers are not honoring existing permanent or trial loan modifications will not be tolerated,” he added. “Struggling borrowers being told to pay incorrect higher amounts because of the failure to honor an in-process loan modification – and then being punished with foreclosure for their inability to pay the incorrect amounts – will not be tolerated.”
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Fitch Ratings, DBRS Spell Out Their QM-Related Ratings Criteria

March 17, 2014
Fitch Ratings just released its finalized criteria for analyzing loans securing non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities under the qualified mortgage standard and ability-to-repay rule. Fitch said it will require more credit enhancement to loans that do not benefit from the QM safe harbor protection. Second, credit enhancement will be based on pool probability of default, which projects the maximum number of borrower challenges, as Fitch expects borrowers will only make a claim that the lender violated the rule as a defense to foreclosure.
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Compliance Exec Shares Secrets to Manage QM Fair Lending Risks

March 17, 2014
Coping with the potential for fair lending violations in the new qualified-mortgage world is a source of high anxiety for many compliance professionals in mortgage finance. But Gregory Imm, chief compliance officer and director of community affairs and fair lending and responsible banking at Fifth Third Bank, recently shared some lesser-known considerations that should increase industry representatives’ confidence in their compliance and readiness. Speaking to participants in a recent webinar sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance, an affiliated publication, Imm said the first area is measurement. “Institutions need to establish key performance risk indicators of what should be measured, and not what is convenient to measure,” he said. “I say ‘convenient’ because those are the activities that are easy to measure because you have the data at your fingertips.”
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Nonbank Special Servicers Are Not Bad Actors, Analysts Say

March 17, 2014
Regulators have been paying closer attention to the mortgage servicing practices of the large nonbank servicers, but they’re not the bad actors their critics make them out to be, analysts at Compass Point Research & Trading concluded recently. “Overall, we believe there is some merit to the operational concerns about portfolio growth for the special servicers, but the longer-term track record of the special servicers is strong and the near-term operational issues likely will be temporary,” the Compass Point team said.The analysts compared the servicing practices between the largest bank and nonbank mortgage servicers.
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UGI Could Join New MI Trade Group Eventually, But It Would Want Certain Changes

March 14, 2014
George Brooks
According to industry sources, UGI wanted the new trade association to operate on the principle of unanimous consent both for budgetary and policy matters, which was opposed by other MIs.
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DOJ IG Accuses Agency of Overstating Mortgage Fraud Accomplishments; Is Residential Fraud a Low Priority?

March 14, 2014
Paul Muolo
"The facts regarding the department's work on mortgage fraud tell a much different story than this report," said a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
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Nationstar Affiliate to Issue Servicer Advance ABS, Deals Are Attractive Despite Regulatory Scrutiny

March 14, 2014
An affiliate of Nationstar Mortgage is preparing to issue an ABS backed by servicer advances and deferred servicing fee receivables, continuing a trend of nonbank servicers fueling their growth via securitization. Industry analysts suggest that the deals offer good returns to investors, even with regulators increasing their scrutiny of nonbanks. The $1.96 billion servicer advance ABS from New Residential Investment is expected to close on March 18, according to a presale report by Standard & Poor’s. The deal is set to receive a AAA rating from the rating service. “Based on the nature of the assets which historically display high recovery typically at the top of the waterfall, we would view...
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Thanks to Declining MBS Production and Lower Bonuses, Some Wall Street Traders are Looking at Greener Pastures

March 14, 2014
A Morgan Stanley managing director, Brian Wornow, recently departed as head of the firm’s trading desk, but he is hardly alone among Wall Street traders who are weighing their options amid rapidly declining MBS production. According to Wall Street executives and lenders that feed their trading desks, there are other concerns about lower-than-expected bonuses this spring and an unwillingness on the part of some established firms to take risks in the mortgage market, particularly when it comes to new jumbo mortgages and other non-agency vehicles. Sources contend...
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Mortgage Securitization Rates Edged Higher in 2013 Despite Growth of Non-Agency Originations

March 14, 2014
The residential MBS issued in 2013 equaled 78.5 percent of primary market originations, the highest securitization rate since 2010, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. The mortgage securitization rate typically moves higher when primary-market originations are declining because of the time lag between loan closing and MBS issuance. Last year started with a bang – $560 billion in new originations – and ended with a whimper, $305 billion. In the conventional conforming market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MBS issuance – even after excluding loans that were more than three months old when they were securitized – represented...[Includes one data chart]
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What We're Hearing: Memo to Mel Watt: There’s Thing Called the CSP / The GSE Bill’s ‘Bait and Switch’ / Kyle Bass Rescues Nationstar, for Now / Landlord Tells Midwest Lender to Get Out / Shedding Tears for MBS Traders / How to Kill a ‘Zombie’ Foreclosure?

March 14, 2014
Paul Muolo
For those of you tracking the lawsuits filed by GSE preferred investors against the federal government, one attorney told us this week that: “These cases won’t be resolved for years." Meanwhile, it appears that the CSP still has no CEO.
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