One mortgage insurance official who used Promontory Financial Group in the past described the firm’s work as “excellent,” but noted: “They don’t come cheap.”
Annaly Capital Management, the nation’s largest real estate investment trust specializing in the residential MBS market, continues to take a close look at one of its more recent acquisitions, Pingora Loan Servicing, with no word yet on its plans for the unit. Annaly took control of Pingora this past summer when it officially closed on the purchase of Hatteras Financial, the parent of the servicer. Before the purchase, Annaly had...
Affiliates of New Residential Investment this week issued a $345.0 million ABS backed by excess spread from mortgage servicing rights on non-agency mortgages. The deal appears to be the first of its kind to receive a credit rating. Morningstar Credit Ratings assigned a BBB rating to NRZ Excess Spread-Collateralized Notes 2016-PLS2. With MSRs, excess spread consists...