Some in the industry believe the GSE common shares are essentially worthless with the junior preferred falling into the category of being a speculative bet.
In response to a question about Fannie's capital buffer, Mayopoulos said, “It’s our mission to provide liquidity in all markets at all times and we’re continuing to do that. I am glad to see that policy makers are starting to refocus on housing market reform including the lack of capital at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
After the end of the first quarter, PennyMac acquired a bulk portfolio of Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights with an unpaid principal balance of $4.30 billion.
One fact seems certain: there are more purchasers for non-agency/nonprime loans than a year ago with a handful of foreign and even U.S. banks contemplating acquisitions…
The FHFA was created in part because its predecessor, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, was widely seen as lacking enough independence to adequately oversee the GSEs...
Now that Arch Mortgage Insurance is the largest player in the MI space – thanks to its yearend purchase of United Guaranty Corp. – it has no intention of taking it easy. In a recent interview with Inside Mortgage Trends, company CEO of Global Mortgage Insurance and Reinsurance Andrew Rippert touched on future growth, including plans for further expansion into international markets, increasing the firm’s coverage into more non-agency loans, and reinsuring its mortgage risk to ...
There are sharp differences in compensation structures for loan originators who work out of retail branches and those in the consumer-direct business, according to Strategic Mortgage Finance Group. Stratmor, an advisory firm, recently released details from its most recent “compensation connection” survey, covering compensation in 2015. The results focused on traditional retail LOs and consumer-direct LOs who tend to focus on call-center/online originations. Retail LOs were found to ...
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