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Short Takes: Home-Equity Layoffs at BofA / BofA, Number Two in Seconds / Ditech Continues to Hire / Another GSE PSPA Lawsuit / HUD Goes to USC

June 8, 2015
Carisa Chappell and Paul Muolo
According to exclusive figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, BofA is the second largest player in second liens at $139.1 billion in holdings.
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MBA’s Stevens Criticizes CFPB’s ‘Regulate by Enforcement’ Approach

June 8, 2015
Paul Muolo
A statement issued by MBA president David Stevens does not comment on the merits of the two cases but blames the CFPB for issuing LO comp rules that are not clear.
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Refi Ebbs as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Business Slows

June 5, 2015
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued $74.10 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities during May, down 8.0 percent from April, a new Inside the GSEs analysis reveals. The purchase-mortgage market picked up some last month, but not enough to offset a sharp 15.7 percent drop in the volume of refinance loans securitized by the GSEs. Purchase-mortgage business was up 7.2 percent from April and reached a combined $28.25 billion – the highest monthly volume since the end of last year’s homebuying season in October. For the first five months of 2015, purchase-mortgage activity totaled $105.15 billion, up 19.0 percent from the same period last year. Most of the big gain in overall GSE business has come from refinancing, which is up 94.4 percent on a...(charts included)
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Agency MBS Issuance Falters in May as Refi Spigot Tightens. Time to Worry?

June 5, 2015
John Bancroft
Though down from April, it was still significantly higher than at any time in 2014, when production averaged just $77.46 billion per month.
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Soon Arriving: Disclosure of Third-Party Due Diligence Results

June 5, 2015
Brandon Ivey
Industry analysts suggest that the rule will prompt a number of changes in the MBS and ABS markets.
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CFPB Issues Public Advisory Against Deceptive Reverse Mortgage Ads

June 5, 2015
George Brooks
Several well-known actors, including Henry Winkler, Robert Wagner and Fred Thompson, have appeared in such ads over the past few years, vouching for the products and their safety.
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What We’re Hearing: PHH Wondering ‘Who Moved My Mortgage Cheese’? / PLS Implications: What Does Merrill Lynch Think? / IMA Offers $2 Billion of MSRs / Piercy on MSRs: Buy Now / Ginnie About to Catch up with Fannie? What?

June 5, 2015
Paul Muolo
The CFPB case likely won’t make Merrill Lynch feel good about PHH, but we could be wrong. The two go way back…
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Warehouse Lending Market Tilts to Borrowers

June 5, 2015
The supply of mortgage warehouse credit available in the market has grown as new players entered a field with subdued production through most of 2014, but usage rates have begun to climb. The amount of outstanding borrowing by mortgage lenders has increased by 150 percent over the past year, said Stanley Street, president of Street Resource Group, in a recent interview with Inside Mortgage Trends. His firm provides a software platform for warehouse lenders ...
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Short Takes: Another Black Eye for Reverses?/ John Devaney, an Ocwen ‘Bull’ / BB&T Gets Green Light on M&A / Quicken Wins One Against ‘The Man’ / New Hires for Essent

June 4, 2015
George Brooks, Brandon Ivey, and Paul Muolo
You might say that investor (and former Wall Streeter) John Devaney is bullish on Ocwen Financial...
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1Q15 Origination Tally: Refis Dominated. Is There Hope for the Purchase Market?

June 4, 2015
John Bancroft
In fact, 2014 was the first year since 2006 that purchase mortgages accounted for more than half of total residential originations.
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