For the nation’s three largest originators of home mortgages – Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America – the third quarter of 2013 turned out the way most observers expected, with slumping production, less revenue and tighter profit margins. The three major lenders, which accounted for almost 30 percent of loan originations in the first half of the year, saw big drops in refinance volume. Although they all unveiled plans to cut thousands of mortgage jobs, efforts to trim expenses did not come fast enough. Wells Fargo said...
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After years of claiming that regulatory uncertainty was holding back mortgage originations, lenders appeared to be on their way toward certainty as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established a definition for qualified mortgages at the beginning of this year. However, industry participants suggest that few originations of non-QMs are likely in the next few years due to uncertainty regarding litigation. “We don’t know how the courts are going to interpret the rule,” Jon Wishnia, a partner at the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler, said last week at the ABS East conference sponsored by Information Management Network in Miami. “That will really drive where the market goes.” CFPB officials have said...
Since the summer, the regulator has been pondering reducing the current $417,000 maximum loan limit and the “high cost” limit of $625,500. At the earliest, a change could come by January.
“The exodus of a majority of the pre-crisis nonbank entities within the mortgage arena provides an opportunity for banks to re-establish their position within the mortgage market,” according to regulators in Connecticut.
On the servicing side of the balance sheet, Citigroup reported $180.3 billion in third-party servicing rights, a 2 percent decline from the same period last year.
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