The FHFA has adopted bank-like capital standards for Fannie and Freddie, but the result won’t be bank-like returns on equity, making a public stock offering for the two entities more difficult.

Conferences are big revenue generators for many trade associations, and the cancellations of shows this spring will hurt financially.

On the surface, all looks well for warehouse lenders but behind the scenes underwriting is being tightened and new clients are being put on hold.

During a House committee roundtable, the Mortgage Bankers Association requested Congress for a funding facility for servicers and legislation to help lenders with mortgages that entered forbearance soon after closing.

Mortgage servicers and credit unions are worried that if a new California forbearance bill becomes law their bottom lines will be significantly impacted. The bill would greatly extend the forbearance period.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a no-action letter template for mortgage servicers to use when digitizing their loss-mitigation process.

Some 4.7 million Americans are under a pandemic-related forbearance plan. However, the pace of new requests seems to have slowed.

The warehouse sector is in a historic sweet spot: Nonbanks are making money hand-over-first, while accepting the tighter underwriting requirements placed on them. (Includes data charts.)

With combined assets worth about $6.1 trillion, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will need to set aside roughly $250 billion in leveraged capital in order to comply with the new rule.

In the COVID-19 era, lenders have been hampered by credit tightening and forbearance edicts, but an odd thing has occurred: Profit margins on new loans are phenomenal.